Today’s movie is a martial arts crime drama with a scene
that happens on June 4. I hope you will enjoy this film and watch it tonight.
RAPID FIRE
Antonio Serrano, a mafia drug distributor travels to
Thailand to visit his long-time heroin supplier Kinman Tau. Serrano is having
troubles and wants to make himself Tau’s silent partner, but his request is not
granted. Meanwhile, on June 4, 1991 [7:56 to 20:50] Jake Lo, an art student in
LA passes a protest condemning the Tiananmen Square massacre, where his father
was killed. Jake is tricked into
attending a party with Chinese pro-democracy activists. At the party, Jake sees
Serrano killing party sponsor Carl Chang, an associate of Tau. He has to use
his martial arts skills to survive. Jake is blackmailed into cooperating with
the FBI and placed in protective custody. They take him to Chicago to testify
against Serrano. Some of the agents watching him are corrupt and try to kill
Jake, who manages to escape again by using his martial arms talent. Another
effort to kill Jake is prevented by Lieutenant Mace Ryan, a Chicago cop who has
been after Tau for 10 years. Ryan blackmails Stewart, the remaining corrupt FBI
agent to help Ryan get Tau and he blackmails Jake, who is wanted for killing
two FBI agents into helping him. A meet where Stewart delivers Jake to Serrano
goes wrong and Stewart is killed. Jake has to use his martial arts abilities to
escape and captures Serrano. Jake gets pissed when he learns Ryan already
cleared him and decks him. One of
Ryan’s subordinates, Detective Karla Withers, gets the Army intelligence file
on Jake’s father who was an agent. She and Jake have a romantic interlude.
Ryan’s effort to intercept Tau’s drug shipment at his laundry is unsuccessful,
but one of Tau’s henchmen penetrates the jail and kills Serrano. Karla
persuades Jake to help Ryan get Tau in an unofficial operation. Jake wears a wire into the laundry, posing
as a worker. Tau grabs Withers and Ryan.
Jake saves the day and Tau is killed trying to get way from Jake. Jake goes
back into the burning laundry to bring out an injured Ryan.
A passable martial arts film. The
fights are believable and realistic. A pretty good crime drama. The romance
between Jake and Kate seems out of place in this film. Still it’s entertaining,
as long as you don’t expect an Oscar winning film.
Great Events From History, The
20th Century, 1971-2000, Vol. 4 1985-1990 ed by Robert F. Gorman (Salem Press, Pasadena, Ca,
2008) p. 2318
Producer - Robert Lawrence
Director - Dwight H. Little
Screenplay - Cindy Cirile and Alan McElroy
Runtime – 1 hour 35 minutes
Released – August 21, 1992
Starring –
Brandon Lee as Jake Lo
Powers Boothe as Lieutenant Mace Ryan
Nick Mancuso as Antonio Serrano
Raymond J. Barry as Agent Frank Stewart
Kate Hodge as Karla Withers
Copyright by Ivan Walters 2014.
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