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Big Trouble in Little China
The film follows hard-boiled truck driver Jack Burton, who gets caught in a bizarre conflict within, and underneath, San Francisco's Chinatown. Dodging demons and facing baffling terrors, Jack battles his way to rescue his best friend's fiance.
1952, Los Angeles, California, USA
22 December 1936, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
5 April 1927, Shanxi Province, China
30 July 1948, Zhongshan, Guangdong, China
8 August 1962, Toledo, Ohio, USA
1961, Hong Kong
14 October 1936
22 February 1929, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
22 March 1947
27 December 1918, San Francisco, California, USA
22 July 1940, Hilo, Big Island, Hawaii, USA
6 September 1952, Escalon, California, USA
27 September 1950, Tokyo, Japan
24 August 1953, Vallejo, California, USA
August 12, 2009
A 'B'-movie-style Western meets Eastern, a supernatural 'chopsocky' fantasy with leading man Kurt Russell doing a feature-length impression of a dead movie star. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. [Blu-ray]
April 15, 2005
Russell and Carpenter make a great team.
June 01, 2005
Imperfect, yes...but still great cultish fun with Kurt Russell.
April 06, 2010
Benefits from a rollicking wise-ass performance from Kurt Russell but otherwise falls limp courtesy of too many corny gags.
July 22, 2005
The 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.
May 02, 2016
Contains the single drop-dead funniest moment in all of Carpenter's filmography.
November 15, 2009
A film to embody the Eighties, and justify them
May 21, 2003
An upscale send-up.
June 13, 2013
Works as a stand alone classic that features John Carpenter at his best.
July 06, 2010
This is a bizarre, fun, action packed film, filled with wild characters and an adventurous, imaginative and campy spirit.
August 09, 2016
Violent 1980s martial-arts movie is a campy guilty pleasure.
January 01, 2000
Special effects don't mean much unless we care about the characters who are surrounded by them, and in this movie the characters often seem to exist only to fill up the foregrounds.
