Kurt Russell stars in this action fantasy about a wisecracking trucker who attempts to rescue his friend's fiancee from a 2,000-year-old magician who lives beneath San Francisco's Chinatown. He must battle demons, goblins and other terrors as he makes his way through the magician's dark domain.


A cult favorite (and one of director John Carpenter's personal favorites), BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA is a fantasy-action film that is brilliantly imaginative, funny, and absorbing. Kurt Russell plays hard-boiled truck driver Jack Burton, who gets caught in a bizarre conflict within, and underneath, San Francisco's Chinatown. An ancient Chinese prince and Chinatown crimelord has kidnapped a beautiful green-eyed woman, who is the fiancee to Jack's best friend. Jack must help his friend rescue the girl before the evil Lo Pan uses her to break the ancient curse that keeps him a fleshless and immortal spirit. Carpenter uses all the best elements of martial arts films, 1940s old action serials, Chinese mythology and straight-forward American adventure to make up a tale wild with imagination. Kurt Russell is wonderful as the brash, brave, and reluctant hero Jack Burton, who is hysterically out of place in this world of magic potions, goblins and curses. A visually stunning work that ranks as one of Carpenter's best films.

A truly geat movie, one of my top 10

it is a great movie

Kurt Russell as Jack Burton = Pure Gold.

Truly a great movie in the sci-fi genera... It is one of the movies that got me into film and acting. Because i wanted to be like Kurt Russell

ya Jack Burton was amazing..plain and simple..

I would say that this movie is one of Kurt's best ones. It's funny and wacky. I was hoping they would had made a sequel having Jack Burton do some other adventure traveling all over in his truck.

Absolute Classic!

As ol'Jack burton says:(WHO?) ME! What the Hell. lol