Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

	Also Known As: Les aventures de Jack Burton dans les griffes du madarin
	Year of first release: 1986
	Director: John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing)
	Actors: Kurt Russell (The Thing, Stargate, Deathproof), Kim Cattrall (Sex and the City), Dennis Dun, James Hong (Blade Runner), Victor Wong
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action, Fantasy
	Conditions of visioning: 25.08.2012, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: A pure american truck driver gets involved in kidnappings, gang wars and magic stories in the San Francisco Chinatown.
Review: From my favorite director during my favorite period for cinema. I have seen the movie many times, but for the first time in Blu-ray. The video quality is quite typical of Blu-ray. The simplistic music (composed by Carpenter) sounds good in DTS-MasterHD. It is very refreshing to follow this completely original story in Chinatown, mixing many influences and jumping from action to kung-fu to mystery, magic and monsters. I dare say this movie is quite unique and unlike any other I know. The actors are not all good, the fights choregraphy sometimes poor, and the caracters reactions not well written, but it is a honest B-movie. John Carpenter is known for his excellence in using the Cinemascope format (2.35:1), and I have noticed some scenes where it is indeed used perfectly, like during the gang fights or all the scenes with the truck, so that I come to think he choose to make the main character a truck driver because of how good it looks on film! Kurt Russel overplays his role, but this gave birth to memorable quotes like the famous one when his partner asks him if he is ready to go and fight hords of enemies, and he answers: "I was born ready". Enough said.
Rating: 7 /10