Big Trouble In Little China

A classic kung-fu action / fantasy film by Escape from New York director John Carpenter, starring Kurt Russell as the ineffable Jack Burton, a John Wayne-esque truck driver with an affinity for big trouble in San Francisco Chinatown.

Where to begin... Jack Burton (Russell) is "a reasonable guy" who will experience "some very unreasonable things." The film opens with Jack as he drives through the pelting rain to to Chinatown in "The Pork Chop Express," his beloved Freightliner Truck, spouting some of the most memorable CB lines since Smokey and the Bandit.

After delivering his payload, Jack meets up with his old buddy Wang Chi (Dunn). Following a gambling frenzy, Jack wins a bet against Wang, and offers to accompany him to the airport to pick up Wang's Chinese girlfriend, Miao Yin, before collecting his winnings. At the airport, Jack encounters a mysterious lawyer (Cattrall) and witnesses Wang's girlfriend get kidnapped by vicious street thugs with funky 80's goggles.

Soon, Jack and Wang are in pursuit, leading up to an amazing fight sequence in an alley reminiscent of Akira Kirosawa's Ran. Then the mystical "Three Storms" arrive (Think Mortal Kombat), followed by the Ultimate Evil Spirit, Mr. David Lo Pan (Hong). This "Ten foot tall roadblock" with light coming out of his mouth is more than Jack and Wang can handle, and are forced to flee, abandoning both Wang's girlfriend and Jack's truck.

Jack and Wang employ the help of a sorcerer and tour bus driver, Egg Shen (Wong), along with others in an effort to conquer the forces of evil, rescue Miao Yin, retrieve the Pork Chop Express, and put an end to all that trouble.