Dwight H. Little directed this action thriller, RAPID FIRE, starring the late great Brandon Lee in 1992. The plot involves Brandon as an art student who witnesses one violent mob event and gets the criminals chasing him. Soon he gets to work with police in order to catch the criminals, but there are many more criminals (and violent mob events) coming than they could have expected..
The plot and its turns are nothing special here and there's just one thing this film concentrates on: action, and very kinetic action. The film rarely has any slow moments and there's always a gun fight or traditional kung fu fight going on screen and Brandon is as smooth and talented with his martial art as his father Bruce was.
The photography and editing are also fine and this film really looks little like the action miracles of Hong Kong, which is a great and pretty rare thing. The gun fights are fierce and violent and the film doesn't bother to develop any characters or motivations for the bone crushing and bullet spitting mayhem, it just wants to give the audience action and fire power. Of course this film would be much greater if it had even some point and deeper meaning but fortunately at least the action is there and more importantly, it's fine and shows the talent of film maker Little, who has also done films like THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, HALLOWEEN 4 and MARKED FOR DEATH.
I think RAPID FIRE is among the more interesting and succeeded Hollywood action films of the nineties. It is fast and furious film but it could have been so much more especially when I don't appreciate too much "empty" films and films which just concentrate to deliver thrills and violence and lighten serious things. I give RAPID FIRE 4/10 and check some HK film soon.
The plot and its turns are nothing special here and there's just one thing this film concentrates on: action, and very kinetic action. The film rarely has any slow moments and there's always a gun fight or traditional kung fu fight going on screen and Brandon is as smooth and talented with his martial art as his father Bruce was.
The photography and editing are also fine and this film really looks little like the action miracles of Hong Kong, which is a great and pretty rare thing. The gun fights are fierce and violent and the film doesn't bother to develop any characters or motivations for the bone crushing and bullet spitting mayhem, it just wants to give the audience action and fire power. Of course this film would be much greater if it had even some point and deeper meaning but fortunately at least the action is there and more importantly, it's fine and shows the talent of film maker Little, who has also done films like THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, HALLOWEEN 4 and MARKED FOR DEATH.
I think RAPID FIRE is among the more interesting and succeeded Hollywood action films of the nineties. It is fast and furious film but it could have been so much more especially when I don't appreciate too much "empty" films and films which just concentrate to deliver thrills and violence and lighten serious things. I give RAPID FIRE 4/10 and check some HK film soon.