Storyline
When trucker, Jack Burton agreed to take his friend, Wang Chi to pick up his fiancee at the airport, he never expected to get involved in a supernatural battle between good and evil. Wang's fiancee has emerald green eyes, which make her a perfect target for immortal sorcerer, Lo Pan and his three invincible cronies. Lo Pan must marry a girl with green eyes so he can regain his physical form.
Directors
Cast
James Hong, George Cheung, Kurt Russell, Kate Burton, Jeff Imada, James Lew, Chao Li Chi, Gerald Okamura, Al Leong, Kenny Endoso, Noble Craig, Stuart Quan, Kim Cattrall, Donald Li, Bill M. Ryusaki, Brian Imada, Victor Wong, Peter Kwong, Jim Lau, Lia Chang, Jerry Hardin, Craig Ng, Dennis Dun, Carter Wong, James Pax, Suzee Pai, Rummel Mor, June Kyoto Lu, Noel Toy, Jade Go, Gary Toy, Jimmy Jue, Danny Kwan, Min Luong, Paul Lee, Willie Wong, Eric Lee, Yukio G. Collins, Nathan Jung, Dan Inosanto, Vernon Rieta, Daniel Wong, Daniel Eric Lee, Diana Tanaka, Donna L. Noguschi, Shinko Isobe
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Reviews
90
Village Voice
Big Trouble in Little China is a far more enjoyable mash-up of classic Westerns, Saturday-morning serials, and Chinese wu xia than any of the Indiana Jones movies, with Kurt Russell in full bloom as Carpenter’s de rigueur hard-drinkin’, hard-gamblin’, wise-crackin’ loner hero—a bowling-alley John Wayne.
83
There are two kinds of people: the ones who have seen — and love — Big Trouble in Little China, a John Carpenter kung fu Western buddy Chinese ghost love story, and those poor saps who aren’t burdened with having to try and describe it to the uninitiated.
80
What matters is the stunts and the spirit, and this latest set of exotic exploits of an indomitable hero (Kurt Russell) and a spunky heroine (Kim Cattrall) gives good value.
70
Big Trouble is plenty conscious of its silliness, which it embraces fully. It sets up its own parameters of ridiculousness and then runs with them, winking a little, but sticking to its story.
60
It falters a little in its confusing climactic battle, but is breathlessly paced, wittily scripted, amusingly played, action-packed and relentlessly spooky.
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