Movie Review - Big Trouble in Little China
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
directed by John Carpenter
rating: 5 out of 5 cravats
on DVD at JL's
On the shelf of a thousand movies, no hero's worth much next to Jack Burton. "May the wings of liberty never lose a feather?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail?" Only in the sweetest of Ben Hecht's dreams. Jack slips every possible noose of self-importance - even Indy was a revenant Christian - and Carpenter just dances along. Sorcerers, furies, the rain-swept streets of Chinatown. Neon everywhere. Hard to begrudge anything so footloose as the Pork Chop Express - 6.9 on the Richter scale, a perfect ten on mine.
directed by John Carpenter
rating: 5 out of 5 cravats
on DVD at JL's
On the shelf of a thousand movies, no hero's worth much next to Jack Burton. "May the wings of liberty never lose a feather?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail?" Only in the sweetest of Ben Hecht's dreams. Jack slips every possible noose of self-importance - even Indy was a revenant Christian - and Carpenter just dances along. Sorcerers, furies, the rain-swept streets of Chinatown. Neon everywhere. Hard to begrudge anything so footloose as the Pork Chop Express - 6.9 on the Richter scale, a perfect ten on mine.
posted by NPK at 8:05 AM
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