Big Trouble in Little China

Name: Big Trouble in Little China
Released: 1986-7-2
Cast: Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall

PG-13
1h 39m
1986

74%

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A macho truck driver is plunged into a strange netherworld after his friend's fiancée is kidnapped by mysterious forces in San Francisco's Chinatown district.

Director:

John Carpenter

Producer:

Larry J. Franco

Writer:

Gary Goldman, David Z. Weinstein, W.D. Richter

Cast:

Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall

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AUDIO COMMENTARY BY DIRECTOR JOHN CARPENTER AND ACTOR KURT RUSSELL

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Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

74%

Critics Consensus: Brimming with energy and packed with humor, Big Trouble in Little China distills kung fu B-movies as affectionately as it subverts them.

Reviews

Cinemaficionados

Yasser Medina

On many occasions I have the feeling that its recycling of genres with a B-series formula is hackneyed and terribly boring when Kurt Russell fights in a simple way in the bizarre alleys of Chinatown. [Full review in Spanish]

...it is certainly great fun—as deliberately absurd a contraption...

...Big Trouble in Little China rises to meet our elevated expectations; fast, chaotic and inventive, its yet another Carpenter film that really deserved more than it got from audiences at the time...

It's sporadically amusing but not consistently funny. There's plenty of action but minimal tension. And the story never tries hard to be even a little convincing.

August 16, 2021

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San Francisco Examiner

Michael Sragow

"Big Trouble in Little China" turns into yet another failed remake of "Raiders of the Lost Ark."

June 29, 2021

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