Big Trouble In Little China (DVD)

'A Mystical, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Kung Fu, Monster, Ghost story!' Jack Burton (Kurt Russell), an all-American truck driver with a John Wayne swagger, wins a bet gambling with old friend Wang Chi (Dennis Dun) while in San Francisco. While he waits for his winnings, Jack gives Wang a lift to the airport where Wang's bride-to-be Miao Yin (Suzee Pai) is due to arrive. However, Miao has green eyes and this has attracted the attention of 2000-year-old sorcerer David Lo Pan (James Hong) who needs a green eyed girl in order to restore his youth and flesh and blood. Lo Pan's gang kidnaps Miao from right under the noses of Jack and Wang and soon the two friends, ...  Read the complete review

The eighties, for me at least, was a golden age of cinema! Family and kids films were produced without being sickly sweet or condescending in tone and produced decent plots that did not require the needless extravaganza of modern day CGI blockbusters that now supliment and cover-up the lack of any decent or intelligent story. Compared with today's family orientated cinema eighties films provided audiences with enjoyable, refreshing and original tales that played out in a mostly camp, witty, smart and hip way. The Princess Bride, The Goonies, Tron, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Time Bandits, The Last Star Fighter, Willow, Flash Gordon, Short Circuit and Ghostbusters, among ...  Read the complete review

Jack Burton - Next time some eight-foot-tall, wild-eyed maniac taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall and asks you if you've paid your dues, well, you just do what ole Jack Burton always does at a time like that. You stare that sucker right back in the eye. "Have you paid your dues, Jack?" "Yes, sir, the cheque is in the mail." Originally panned by critics and avoided by audiences all over the world, John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China eventually become a cult hit finding it real home on video, so the success should be repeated on DVD, it is no doubt John Carpenters most under rated and under seen ...  Read the complete review

What a weird mix of themes this one is! Big Trouble in Little China stars Kurt Russell as truck driver Jack Burton, who along with his friend Wang Chi (Dennis Dun) becomes embroiled in a bizarre kidnapping, in which Wang's fiancé, -an Asian girl with incredibly rare green eyes- is taken by a 2000 year old Chinese Sorcerer (Lo Pan) living in a vast, ancient hidden complex within San Fransisco's Chinatown neighbourhood.The film mixes traditional 80s gun-toting action with martial arts and ancient oriental mysticism, mythology and black magic, as Jack and a sympathetic street gang led by sorcerer Egg Shen (played by Victor Wong, also of Karate Kid and Gremlins) must fight ...  Read the complete review

Director: John Carpenter Producer: Larry . Franco Writers: Gary Goldman, David Z. Weinstein and W.D. Richter Stars: Kurt Russel, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong and Victor Wong Released in the summer of 1986 this hour and forty minute movie follows the life of a truck driver who happens upon some 'Big trouble in Little China' town. **BRIEF PLOT** Jack Burton, (played by Kurt Russell) is a truck driver with a simple life, the love of money, drinking, Gambling and his beloved Truck, until one day when he and his friend Wang Chi, (played by Dennis Dun) go to the local airport to pick up Wang's ...  Read the complete review