FREE ON VIMEO John Carpenter Big Trouble In Little China

Is there a remake of the original with Dwayne_Johnson? What is more, a sequel has been announced. Well, we purists stick with the'86 original. That sounded like a good idea: John Carpenter's Big Budget production, which unites all Kung Fu, martial arts and other Far East clichés, assuming that Chinatown is only the tip of the iceberg. Among them are catacombs of an underworld over which a 2000 year old bad dream reigns. As described; that sounds promising and Carpenter's fantasy spectacle gives us hope for the first 30 minutes. His film takes up a lot of pacing, offers extravagant visual gimmicks under the banner of the 80s and, moreover, Carpenter fills a plump pack of popcorn with Chinese black magic. Everything looks exotic and pleasantly light-footed! After a while, however, the film recycles itself and more than once you think you have already seen this scene. Someone's always slipping off somewhere and at the end everyone flies through the air. John Carpenter's early films know that special effects aren't everything - but Big Trouble In Little China seems to have forgotten exactly that. Kurt Russell plays Jack Burton, an adventurer who always has a loose spell on his lips. His friend's name is Wang Chi (Dennis Dun) and his girlfriend is kidnapped by bandits into the underworld of Chinatown. The rest is basically a single chase in which Burton and Wang Chi pull two women out of the clutches of a ghostly karate master. To be saved, he must marry a green-eyed woman. Kurt Russell is supposed to look like a classic Hollywood hero - but even they don't always do the right thing at the right time. Otherwise it would only be quite exciting - like Big Trouble In Little China. Carpenter, who was allowed to spend a lot of money for the first time, uses it for effects. His characters are just stopgaps. The film is especially interesting from Hollywood's point of view on the Chinese. As stereotypical as a real satire, Carpenter looks at a foreign world in which almost everything exists. At least you can't blame him for chumming up to the taste of Arthaus.