In this deliriously entertaining, genre-crossing martial arts fantasy epic, Carpenter regular Kurt Russell stars as the effortlessly cool Jack Burton, a truck driver who inadvertently crosses paths with the deadly sorcery of David Lo Pan (James Hong, Everything Everywhere All at Once), following an airport visit with his friend Wang Chi (Dennis Dun).
Tasked with saving the life of Wang’s fiancee Miao Yin (Suzee Pai), who the evil Lo Pan plans on sacrificing to become mortal, Jack journeys on a gleefully energetic, fantastically martial-arts-fuelled thrill ride across San Fransisco’s Chinatown.
This bonafide cult classic boasts an inimitable mix of thrillingly tongue-in-cheek action spectacle, gloriously imaginative, spectacularly realised practical effects work, and a stirring synth soundtrack by John Carpenter and Alan Howarth, all bolstered by the effortlessly cool, endlessly quotable star power of Kurt Russell.