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Advantages: Few and far between
Disadvantages: Too many to mention

Jake Lo is a talented young Art student in California, whose life seems to be going in the right direction. That's is until one night, when he witnesses a mafia gangster, Cerrano, murder another gangster from a rival Chinese mob. Having escaped from Cerra ...

christianfilmcritic 02.03.2006 · Read full review
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Rapidly Tiring

Advantages: Brandon Lee, decent martial arts fighting, one or two interesting or touching scenes.
Disadvantages: Macho two-dimensional male characters, women as plot devices, gratuitous violence to the point of pure boredom, whiney self-pitying hero.

The good thing about this film is that it has Brandon Lee in it. Now for the bad things: WOMEN Female roles in this film are few and far between. There is the blonde woman who appears fleetingly; is the subject of a fantasy portrait, naked wi ...

WhiteWitch 09.02.2001 · Read full review
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"No, you're the dragon !"

Advantages: martial arts scenes with Brandon, action, bit of romance, Powers Boothe
Disadvantages: intro, 'hero' tagline, ok acting by Brandon

Jake Lo (Brandon Lee, son of Bruce Lee)attends college and finds himself at a demo for China, while returning to the campus. There he meets Paul Yang (Dustin Neguyen), who is an activist trying to raise money and needs Jake to attend, as he was a witness ...

thepunisher 25.10.2006 · Read full review
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Brandon could have been Great!

Advantages: An Example of Brandon Lees potential
Disadvantages: Small budget, limited storyline

...Brandon Lee's life was tragically cut short while making the film The Crow. Injured on set by a chaotic set of circumtances cut short a career that could have superseeded his fathers, the great Bruce Lee. Rapid Fire was an earlier attempt to break into ...

Monkii_Magic 08.09.2004 · Read full review
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Its a action film, not a award winner.

Advantages: Great original fight scenes
Disadvantages: Not so original storyline

I am not sure that I should proceed with this opinion, after reading the only other opinion in this section. I am a male, and being male I like my action films. I recorded this film off the television, and it appealed to me because of the advert. I should ...

Beretta 25.02.2001 · Read full review
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