"Truck driver Jack Burton (Kurt Russell) and his friend, restaurant owner Wang Chi (Dennis Dun), go to the airport to pick up Wang's fiancee Miao Yin (Suzee Pai), who is arriving from China. A Chinese street gang, the Lords of Death, tries to kidnap another Chinese girl at the airport who is being met by her friend Gracie Law (Kim Cattrall), intending to sell her as a sex slave. After Jack intervenes, they take Miao Yin instead. In Jack's big-rig truck, he and Wang track the Lords of Death to the back alleys of Chinatown, where they find a funeral procession that quickly erupts into a street fight between the Chang Sing and Wing Kong, two ancient Chinese societies. When "The Three Storms" (Thunder, Rain, and Lightning) appear, slaughtering the Chang Sing, Jack tries to escape but runs over Lo Pan (James Hong), a powerful and legendary sorcerer, as well as the leader of the Wing Kong"
First off I enjoy the use of both American and Chinese culture in the film. That's all that I really liked besides Suzee Pai because she is very beautiful. I found Kurt Russell's acting very annoying as well everyone else's. I couldn't really enough the film because of that, whoever did the casting did an very poor job. Kim Cattrall wasn't the right actress to portray her character and Dennis dun was a good choice but his acting could have been better. The screenplay was very poorly written and made all of the characters annoying. I was expecting something a little better since not only is this a John Carpenter film but also a Kurt Russell film who is suppose to be a seasoned actor.
I suggest this movie to those that like John Carpenter movies.
1/5
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