Wednesday, 6 March 2013

As old Jack Burton always says...


Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

Directed by John Carpenter this film stars Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun and James Hong. A truck driver and his friend attempt to get the friend's kidnapped fiancée back from gangs and mystic enemies.

This film is certainly a mixed bag, it has a cult following but was largely panned during it's release. Some of the dialogue is pretty bad, the special effects do not age well and while the plot is crazy neither it nor the characters add much depth. There is some mileage to the idea that the blundering protagonist represents American foreign policy but I think this might be reading a little too much into this film.

2/5

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