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Big Trouble in Little China
Originally released: 1986
Very stupid and a film you shouldn't admit actually liking, John Carpenter's Indiana Jones piss-take throws so much pseudo-Oriental weirdness at you that it's easy to be turned off. Quite a lot of fun can be had, though, from the ludicrously over the top production design, cheesy one-liners and crap sexual chemistry between Kurt Russell and Kim Cattrall, as they try to escape the clutches of a bunch of evil magicians. Almost scary at times, risible throughout, and rather sadly the first Carpenter that's so bad it's good.

Tim Robey

Directed by
John Carpenter | 1948
Info on: 17 films (director)
Starring
Kim Cattrall | 1956
Info on: 1 film (star)
Kurt Russell | 1951
Info on: 5 films (star)
Where next?
Raiders Of The Lost Ark | 1981
Directed by Steven Spielberg
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