Should you watch Big Trouble in Little China?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.

Big Trouble in Little China
Film · 1986
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.
The sides of Big Trouble in Little China
- A cocky truck driver named Jack Burton
- A sorcerer under San Francisco's Chinatown
- Kung fu and magic
Big Trouble in Little China is good for you if…
- you like a hero who brags a lot and gets it wrong.
- you like kung fu fights with flying sorcerers.
- you like a mix of martial arts, monsters and magic.
Big Trouble in Little China is bad for you if…
- you find 1980s effects and hairstyles dated.
- you need a story that makes sense.
About: friendship · heroism · magic
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