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Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

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Reviews Counted:32

Fresh:27

Rotten:5

Average Rating:6.9/10

Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

US Box Office: $0

Synopsis: A cult favorite (and one of director John Carpenter's personal favorites), BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA is a fantasy-action film that is brilliantly imaginative, funny, and absorbing. Kurt Russell... A cult favorite (and one of director John Carpenter's personal favorites), BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA is a fantasy-action film that is brilliantly imaginative, funny, and absorbing. Kurt Russell plays hard-boiled truck driver Jack Burton, who gets caught in a bizarre conflict within, and underneath, San Francisco's Chinatown. An ancient Chinese prince and Chinatown crimelord has kidnapped a beautiful green-eyed woman, who is the fiancee to Jack's best friend. Jack must help his friend rescue the girl before the evil Lo Pan uses her to break the ancient curse that keeps him a fleshless and immortal spirit. Carpenter uses all the best elements of martial arts films, 1940s old action serials, Chinese mythology and straight-forward American adventure to make up a tale wild with imagination. Kurt Russell is wonderful as the brash, brave, and reluctant hero Jack Burton, who is hysterically out of place in this world of magic potions, goblins and curses. A visually stunning work that ranks as one of Carpenter's best films. [More]

Starring: Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, James Hong, Dennis Dun

Starring: Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, James Hong, Dennis Dun, Victor Wong, Kate Burton, Carter Wong, Peter Kwong, James Pax, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Director: John Carpenter

Director: John Carpenter
Screenwriter: W.D. Richter, Gary Goldman, David Z. Weinstein
Producer: Larry J. Franco
Composer: Alan Howarth, John Carpenter

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Reviews for Big Trouble in Little China

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09/02/04
Andy Klein
Andy Klein
Los Angeles CityBeat

I saw Kurt Russell in lipstick armed with a bowie knife and thought, "Super-duper."

Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | comment Comment
06/09/01
Bill Chambers
Bill Chambers
Film Freak Central

A misunderstood, underrated blast of a movie from genre king John Carpenter. As imaginitive and fun as anything he's done.

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04/28/03
Blake Davis
Blake Davis
KFOR Channel 4 News

No review available.

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10/17/03
Carol Cling
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

On the commentary track, Russell and Carpenter provide one of the best bantering sessions I've ever heard

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05/12/01
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

No review available.

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10/09/05
Chuck O'Leary
Chuck O'Leary
Fantastica Daily

No review available.

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10/10/05
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

The film is probably best characterized by a comment from a review quoted in the DVD commentary by Kurt Russell: 'Absolutely fabulous and terminally hip.'

Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
06/27/01
David Sanjek
David Sanjek
PopMatters

A film to embody the Eighties, and justify them

Full Review Source: CinePassion | comment Comment
11/15/09
Fernando F. Croce
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion

Big rave in little blurb!

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03/17/04
Gregory Weinkauf
Gregory Weinkauf
New Times

an immensely enjoyable mess, one whose sheer energy and inventiveness outweighs its numerous flaws

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05/15/01
James Kendrick
James Kendrick
Q Network Film Desk

Kung fu, monsters, sorcery, 18-wheelers, swordfights and world-saving heroics against impossible odds: What more could you want?

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11/07/02
James Rocchi
James Rocchi
Netflix

No review available.

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05/14/03
Jeffrey Westhoff
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

Loads of fun from the usually strained John Carpenter.

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05/12/03
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

No review available.

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03/10/04
Mark Palermo
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Russell and Carpenter make a great team.

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04/15/05
Michael A. Smith
Michael A. Smith
Nolan's Pop Culture Review

You know what old Jack Burton would say in a time like this? Jack Burton would say see this movie.

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07/25/01
Mike Bracken
Mike Bracken
Mike Bracken's Horror Films

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]

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08/12/09
Peter Canavese
Peter Canavese
Groucho Reviews

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.

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07/22/05
Phil Villarreal
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star

No review available.

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07/31/02
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
 
 
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