Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun
Somewhere in the 80s, trucker Jack Burton arrives in a small town to deliver his cargo and win a few bucks playing cards with the locals down at the Chinese market. Practically bankrupting nearly all ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: May 22, 2001
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October 22, 2009"They told Jack Burton to go to hell...and that's exactly where he's going!"
An All-American trucker gets dragged into a centuries-old mystical battle in Chinatown.REVIEW
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September 8, 2009A fun, if not a little silly, action comedy with lots of Chinese mythology.
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August 4, 2009"Ol' Jack always says... what the hell?"
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An outlandish, uncategorisable blend of John Ford (and, by extension, John Wayne) and cornball Chinese mysticism, John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China is a hokey martial arts adventure flick with limitless appea -
May 22, 2009Best Carpenter flick by miles haha so cool, love Russell in it and love the look..LOVE IT. This film has everything you could want, its totally awesome in everyway and hits all the targets, faultless, inspired.
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April 2, 2009This for sure is an odd movie but does not miss from being in my collection at all.
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October 26, 2009I do not like Big Trouble In Little China as much as others. Like with a lot of the John Carpenter movies I see, he's got a lot of ideas and weird special effects but I'm often at loss why half these things are happening in the movie as there's never a strong or tight enough scri...( read more)
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October 24, 2009Good, but fucking weird. Carpenter must have been on some serious gear when he made this. Russell was pretty bad ass and it was a role made for him. Cattrall was not too bad, not her usual crack whore self, but she just has that mouth that demands cock being shoved in. I thought ...( read more)
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October 18, 2009The perfect B-movie, and one of the best ever made. There's nothing else that can be said about this film. You've either seen it and know of its awesomeness or your a poor bastard. Just remember what old Jack Burton always says. Jack always says, "What the hell."
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January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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July 24, 2007'This lopan comes out of thin air in the middle of a damn alley, and his buddies are flying around on wires cuttin everybody to shreds and he (wayne) just stands there waiting for me to drive my truck straight through him with light coming out of his mouth!!' - a confused Jack Burton after the alley scene, classic stuff.
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July 10, 2007Lo Pan was so hard with his long fingernails and his pinky always pointed out... like a pimp!
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March 23, 2007My girlfriend and I both adore this movie. We know almost every line in it, LOL. We watch it all the time.
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January 6, 2007this movie is so funny. i just saw it for the first time and i love it. i love how he makes out with that girl so for like 5 minutes of the movie he has red lipstick on.
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November 21, 2006This is my favorite movie of all time. I loved it when I first seen it as a kid and I still love it.
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