 
Unarmed and extremely dangerous
Rapid Fire (directed by Dwight H. Little) is Brandon's first Hollywood movie which comes close to Legacy of Rage in quality. The plot is hackneyed, and the movie is populated with stock characters, but it's great fun nonetheless. Brandon (Jake Lo) is unwillingly drawn into the middle of things when he witnesses a murder and becomes a hunted man. Nick Mancuso does a great job of playing a somewhat er ... demented Über-Italian drug boss, Tony Serano. Powers Booth plays the rough and ready, authority-defying lawman who has been on the tail of the big crook (bigger than Serano even) for 10 years, and there is an obliging love interest for our hero. He even manages to find a father figure in Booth, his own father having died on Tiannanmen Square - for the same reasons which keep Booth's character committed to his quest for a decade: "You gotta stand up for something, kid." Brandon choreographed the action sequences himself, and they are very impressive, strongly reminiscent of those in Hong Kong movies. (That's a compliment!) He obviously inherited a talent for choreography from his father. Very enjoyable. And you get to ogle Brandon's buffed-up physique!
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