Big Trouble In Little China (1986)
Boys of a certain age cherish this film. Russell teams with Carpenter again for what has become shorthand for a definitive Kurt Russell performance and quite why there’s never been a sequel frankly just beggars belief. Russell is Jack Burton, a long haul trucker and the owner of the Pork Chop Express who escorts a friend who owes him money back to San Francisco’s Little China so he can collect his Chinese bride-to-be from the airport before settling his debts. Factor in warring street gangs, terrifying elemental warriors and a centuries-old Chinese sorcerer called Lo Pan and you have all the elements for a classic John Carpenter caper that’s as fun as it is daft, whilst Russell’s confident swagger has never been more apparent than when he’s trying to impress Kim Cattrall’s Gracie Law.
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