Fresh
An upscale send-up.
Walter Goodman, New York Times
Big Trouble in Little China
Jack Burton's in for some serious trouble and you're in for some serious fun.
1986 · 1h 40m · PG-13
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Directed by
John Carpenter
Overview
Truck driver Jack Burton gets embroiled in a supernatural battle when his best friend Wang Chi's green-eyed fiancée is kidnapped by henchmen of the sorcerer Lo Pan, who must marry a girl with green eyes in order to return to the human realm.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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74%
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Rotten
Special effects don't mean much unless we care about the characters who are surrounded by them, and in this movie the characters often seem to exist only to fill up the foregrounds.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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