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
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... [More]
Starring: Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, James Hong, Dennis Dun
Director: John Carpenter
Reviews for Big Trouble in Little China
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]
08/12/09
I saw Kurt Russell in lipstick armed with a bowie knife and thought, "Super-duper."
06/09/01
A film to embody the Eighties, and justify them
11/15/09
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.
01/01/00
Top CriticAn upscale send-up.
05/21/03
Top Critican immensely enjoyable mess, one whose sheer energy and inventiveness outweighs its numerous flaws
05/15/01
On the commentary track, Russell and Carpenter provide one of the best bantering sessions I've ever heard
05/12/01
...all action from the word go, with almost none of it generating any excitement, suspense, or humor.
05/18/01
Kung fu, monsters, sorcery, 18-wheelers, swordfights and world-saving heroics against impossible odds: What more could you want?
11/07/02
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.'
06/27/01
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.
07/22/05
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02/09/06
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03/26/09
Top CriticCampy as heck but a lot of fun, too.
08/19/02
Imperfect, yes...but still great cultish fun with Kurt Russell.
06/01/05
A misunderstood, underrated blast of a movie from genre king John Carpenter. As imaginitive and fun as anything he's done.
04/28/03
Loads of fun from the usually strained John Carpenter.
05/12/03
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