Big Trouble in Little China (1986) 7.3
An All-American trucker gets dragged into a centuries-old mystical battle in Chinatown. Director:John Carpenter |
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Big Trouble in Little China (1986) 7.3
An All-American trucker gets dragged into a centuries-old mystical battle in Chinatown. Director:John Carpenter |
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Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Kurt Russell | ... | ||
Kim Cattrall | ... | ||
Dennis Dun | ... | ||
James Hong | ... | ||
Victor Wong | ... | ||
Kate Burton | ... | ||
Donald Li | ... | ||
Carter Wong | ... | ||
Peter Kwong | ... | ||
James Pax | ... | ||
Suzee Pai | ... | ||
Chao Li Chi | ... | ||
Jeff Imada | ... | ||
Rummel Mor | ... | ||
Craig Ng | ... |
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. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
If you`ve ever heard of the director John Carpenter, you`ll be familiar with his works (of art), like Hallowe`en, Escape From New York, Assault On Precient 13, The Thing, They Live, and this movie, a mid 80`s classic starring none other than Carpenter`s favourite front man, Kurt Russell. Set in Chinatown, Los Angeles, its a modern day fable of good versus evil, Chinese black magic, the hero storms the castle type affair. Russell plays Jack Burton, a wise cracking long distance truck triver and all American hero, passing through Chinatown on some business. After a card game with old friend Wang Chi (Dennis Dun), Wang (now penniless thanks to Burton`s good fortune) pursuades Jack to drive him to the airport, to pick up his childhood sweetheart, a girl Wang has not seen since they were children. Its here the story begins, as Mao Yin, Wang`s girlfriend, is captured by a mysterious gang. The two form a pact to rescue the girl from the clutches of the evil Lo Pan, former crimelord of Chinatown, a myth who has apparently lived to the age of almost 200, with a little help from some black magic.
Thats it, I`m saying no more, cos I don`t want to spoil it. You`ve probably seen the movie anyway.
Its hard to pick a favourite John Carpenter film, very hard, but this one has it all. Its a great action movie, a great comedy, an original story, great lines, and even a love story, a perfect blend of what big screen entertainment should be. Its strange though, that the ending was left so open, begging for a sequel that was never made.