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"All I know is that this Lo Pan character comes out of thin air in the middle of a goddamn alley while his buddies are flying around on wires cutting everybody to shreds while he just STANDS there waiting for me to drive my truck straight through him with LIGHT coming out of his mouth?!?!"


How to describe John Carpenter's "Big Trouble in Little China"? It's an action-adventure comedic homage to groovy Chinese martial arts fantasy flicks, complete with tons of kung fu fighting, hoards of gun-toting Tong gangsters, evil cackling undead ghost magicians, spirit warriors, peasant sorcerers, mid-air sword-fights, magic potions, a couple of monsters, hot chicks with green eyes, and one swaggering truck driver who sounds like John Wayne after he's been knocked on the head a few too many times.

The movie came out in the mid-80s, 15-20 years before Quentin Tarantino and some other Hollywood 'discovered' and popularized Chinese films. Few people saw it in the theaters when it was originally released. It's since become a cult classic.

Jack Burton is a slightly dim-witted, goofy, smug but confused hero. Think John Wayne...only bumbling, utterly out of his depth, and completely clueless about the danger he's just landed in. Jack drives a truck called "The Pork Chop Express" that hauls--you guessed it--pigs, and he tends to blather on and on ad nauseam on his CB while he's driving. He has some of the best idiotic movie hero dialogue ever. He frequently refers to himself in the 3rd person. Heaven help you if Jack Burton stops to give you a hand. It probably means that you're in more trouble than you think.

But Jack Burton can take it! Just remember: "It's all in the reflexes."


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