Kurt Russell as Jack Burton and his friend Wang Chi Witness the kidnapping of Pai, Wang's girlfriend, by some thugs from Chinatown. Jack Burton and Wang end up under Chinatown where they meet 2000 year old Lo Pan. Lo Pan is cursed, and must marry a women with green eyes and then sacrifice her to be released from his ghostly form and become human again.
Burton and Wang fight Lo Pan's gang of Henchman, the "Wing Kong", and the "Three Storms" Three men who can control Rain, Thunder and Lightning. Gracie Law, a lawyer played by Kim Cattrall, a tour bus driver/sorcerer called Egg Shen played by the venerable Victor Wong, Eddie Lee a friend of Wang's, and a helpful street gang the Chang Sing, all do their best to help defeat the demons and monsters of ancient China.
Jack Burton: When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the bar-room wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."
Kurt Russell plays the heroic idiot to a tee. He says again and again, What was that!
Who was that!
What does that say!
and no matter what the answer is he charges on anyways. I compare this movie to a greasy cheeseburger; I love every minute of it even though it's terrible.
PG-13 is for Kung-Fu action and some language.
Available at Netflix
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