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
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
No review available.
07/31/02
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 CriticA film to embody the Eighties, and justify them
11/15/09
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03/10/04
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10/10/05
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05/17/04
...all action from the word go, with almost none of it generating any excitement, suspense, or humor.
05/18/01
A wholly enjoyable mixture of action, comedy, romance, and horror.
04/02/05
No review available.
06/26/05
No review available.
10/09/05
I saw Kurt Russell in lipstick armed with a bowie knife and thought, "Super-duper."
06/09/01
On the commentary track, Russell and Carpenter provide one of the best bantering sessions I've ever heard
05/12/01
A inspired and slightly unhinged homage to grindhouse B-moviemaking.
08/10/02
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 really hated this.
10/29/03
A misunderstood, underrated blast of a movie from genre king John Carpenter. As imaginitive and fun as anything he's done.
04/28/03
No review available.
10/17/03
No review available.
09/02/04
You know what old Jack Burton would say in a time like this? Jack Burton would say see this movie.
07/25/01
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