
Truck driver Jack Burton arrives in Chinatown, San Francisco, and goes to the airport with his Chinese friend Wang Chi to welcome his green-eyed fiancée Miao Yin who is arriving from China. However she is kidnapped on the arrival by a Chinese street gang and Jack and Wang chase the group. Soon they learn that the powerful evil sorcerer called David Lo Pan, who has been cursed more than two thousand years ago to exist without physical body, needs to marry a woman with green e... (Full plot summary below)
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Truck driver Jack Burton arrives in Chinatown, San Francisco, and goes to the airport with his Chinese friend Wang Chi to welcome his green-eyed fiancée Miao Yin who is arriving from China. However she is kidnapped on the arrival by a Chinese street gang and Jack and Wang chase the group. Soon they learn that the powerful evil sorcerer called David Lo Pan, who has been cursed more than two thousand years ago to exist without physical body, needs to marry a woman with green eyes to retrieve his physical body and Miao is the chosen one. Jack and Wang team-up with the lawyer Gracie Law, the bus driver and sorcerer apprentice Egg Shen and their friends and embark in a great adventure in the underground of Chinatown, where they face a world of magicians and magic, monsters and martial arts fighters.
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| Video-Reviewmaster.comSteve CrumImperfect, yes...but still great cultish fun with Kurt Russell. |
| eFilmCritic.comRob GonsalvesContains the single drop-dead funniest moment in all of Carpenter's filmography. |
| Arizona Daily StarPhil VillarrealThe high-octane action comedy takes all that was worthwhile from decades of B-flicks and distills it into a maximum-concentration explosion of cinematic TNT. |
| Flipside Movie EmporiumRob VauxA inspired and slightly unhinged homage to grindhouse B-moviemaking. |
| Village VoiceScott FoundasBig 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. |
| Entertainment WeeklyMarc BernardinThere 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. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeLoads of fun from the usually strained John Carpenter. |
| Cinema CrazedFelix Vasquez Jr.Works as a stand alone classic that features John Carpenter at his best. |
| CinePassionFernando F. CroceA film to embody the Eighties, and justify them |
| KFOR Channel 4 NewsBlake DavisA misunderstood, underrated blast of a movie from genre king John Carpenter. As imaginitive and fun as anything he's done. |