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The film follows hard-boiled truck driver Jack Burton, who gets caught in a bizarre conflict within, and underneath, San Francisco's Chinatown. Dodging demons and facing baffling terrors, Jack battles his way to rescue his best friend's fiance.
8 February 1949, Hong Kong
24 July 1936, Stockton, California, USA
17 June 1955, Inglewood, California, USA
22 May 1981, Bronx, New York, USA
1961, Hong Kong
14 October 1936
19 April 1952, Stockton, California, USA
30 July 1948, Zhongshan, Guangdong, China
22 February 1929, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
30 September 1952
29 September 1963, San Francisco, California, USA
12 September 1960, Tainan, Taiwan
27 September 1950, Tokyo, Japan
29 November 1946, Bakersfield, California, USA
17 March 1951, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
17 October 1962, Fresno, California, USA
24 August 1953, Vallejo, California, USA
April 06, 2010
Benefits from a rollicking wise-ass performance from Kurt Russell but otherwise falls limp courtesy of too many corny gags.
August 09, 2016
Violent 1980s martial-arts movie is a campy guilty pleasure.
May 02, 2016
Contains the single drop-dead funniest moment in all of Carpenter's filmography.
May 21, 2003
An upscale send-up.
June 13, 2013
Works as a stand alone classic that features John Carpenter at his best.
July 22, 2005
The high-octane action comedy takes all that was worthwhile from decades of B-flicks and distills it into a maximum-concentration explosion of cinematic TNT.
June 01, 2005
Imperfect, yes...but still great cultish fun with Kurt Russell.
August 12, 2009
A 'B'-movie-style Western meets Eastern, a supernatural 'chopsocky' fantasy with leading man Kurt Russell doing a feature-length impression of a dead movie star. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. [Blu-ray]
November 15, 2009
A film to embody the Eighties, and justify them
April 15, 2005
Russell and Carpenter make a great team.
January 01, 2000
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.
July 06, 2010
This is a bizarre, fun, action packed film, filled with wild characters and an adventurous, imaginative and campy spirit.
