Golpe en la pequeña China
Directed by John Carpenter
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- Jacob O’Neal21 de marzo de 2025Before I knew who John Carpenter was I was a fan. I was 10 years old and my cousins were visiting from Colorado. Our parents decided to take us to the movies and they chose Big Trouble In Little China, a movie starring Kurt Russell and Kim Cattrall. Directed by Carpenter with a script by Gary Goldman (Total Recall, Navy Seals), WD Richter (The Adventures Of Backaroo Banzai, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers) and David Z Weinstein with his only produced script. The movie centers around Jack Burton, a blustering hero who consistently bumbles his way through the story. Jack and his Chinese friend, Wang (played by Denis Dun), go to the airport to pick up Wang’s girlfriend. She’s kidnapped by a Chinese gang called the Lords Of Death to be married off and sacrificed to Lo Pan, an ancient sorcerer (the great James Hong) who was cursed to be incorporeal for eternity unless he marries and kills a wife with green eyes. Enter Wang’s girlfriend. Jack and Wang enlist a group of rag tag Chinese friends to go against this evil and save the girl. This movie is cheesy and moves through all kinds of random story beats at break neck speed. Somehow it works. The jokes are character driven and not just stupid pratfalls and verbal insults like many modern films. Russell taps into that John Wayne bravado to make his high ego/low intelligence character such fun to watch that, if this movie had succeeded in 1986, we’d be begging for multiple sequels just to see Jack fighting random evils in the world while driving his 18 wheeler, the Pork Chop Express, across the country. Carpenter saw this script and somehow it suited his sensibilities enough to create something totally unique and perfectly 80’s. The action and wire stunts were done with the right sort of over the top amazingness that you’d expect from the wire-fu movies of the 70’s. Cattrall was serviceable as the potential love interest for Russell. Their chemistry was good, but there wasn’t much for her to do. Dun and Hong were perfect in their respective roles, especially Hong as Lo Pan. He was such a fun villain that Hong played a character named Lo Pan more than once, including an episode of Chuck in the early 2000’s that took place in Chinatown. This movie may be cheesy and very goofy, but that is the charm of this film and why it stands the test of time. It’s a must watch for anyone who loves kung fu, Kurt Russell, John Carpenter or supernatural comedy. Actually, everyone should watch this movie.
- Zokkiie28 de marzo de 2026It’s kind of all over the place, but in a fun, confident way. Things just keep happening and the movie barely slows down, so you don’t really stop to question it—you just go with it. The tone flips between serious and totally ridiculous, and somehow it mostly works. Not everything lands, but it’s got a ton of personality and doesn’t feel like anything else. It knows exactly what it is and just leans into it, which makes it way more fun than it should be.
- MR_BigTime2 de marzo de 2026Big Trouble in Little China is easily among the top 10 action comedies of the 80s. Rewatching it 50 years after release, I have to say it's still a giant of the genre, even by modern standards. Its special effects and plot's political correctness (or lack thereof) aside, it's plain old dumb fun that will never get old. On a separate note, I only recently learned that Mortal Kombat's Raiden and Shang Tsung were inspired by this film. I have to say the resemblance is uncanny. No horseshit.
Golpe en la pequeña China Trivia
Golpe en la pequeña China was released on 2 de julio de 1986.
Golpe en la pequeña China was directed by John Carpenter.
Golpe en la pequeña China has a runtime of 1h 40min.
Golpe en la pequeña China was produced by Larry Franco.
Jack Burton es un camionero que, en una de sus paradas en el barrio de Chinatown, en San Francisco, le gana una gran cantidad de dinero a Wang Chi. Este le convence para que le lleve al aeropuerto a recoger a su prometida Miao Yin, tras lo cual le entregará el dinero que le debe. Cuando Miao Yin es secuestrada por unos gángsters chinos, Jack se verá envuelto en una gran aventura para rescatarla, entrando en un tenebroso mundo gobernado por Lo Pan, un mago de 2.000 años que gobierna sin piedad el mundo de los espíritus. Esquivando demonios y haciendo frente a temores incomprensibles, Jack lucha a su manera en los oscuros dominios de Lo Pan en una loca carrera para salvar a la chica.
The key characters in Golpe en la pequeña China are Jack Burton (Kurt Russell), Gracie Law (Kim Cattrall), Wang Chi (Dennis Dun).
Golpe en la pequeña China is rated 12.
Golpe en la pequeña China is an Action, Adventure, Fantasía film.
Golpe en la pequeña China has an audience rating of 8.2 out of 10.
Golpe en la pequeña China had a budget of 25 MUS$.
Golpe en la pequeña China has made 11,1 MUS$ at the box office.