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Big Trouble in Little China

Big Trouble in Little China - in which Kurt Russell plays an intersectional feminist who wrecks his truck while trying to save a small business man and rescue victims of sex trafficking. Okay, so, Kurt Russell plays Jack Burton, a tractor-trailer driving trucker with a sassy CB handle (Porkchop Express) who arrives in the Little China section of San Francisco to play cards with his Chinese friend, Wang. After Jack beats Wang at cards, he goes with him to the airport to pick up his green-eyed girlfriend who is flying in from China. At the airport Jack tries to pick up immigration lawyer, Kim Cattrall, but she appears to be interested in meeting her, client, I guess, but wary of gang members. Her suspicions are confirmed when the gang kidnaps Wang's girlfriend! instead of the other Chinese girl, I guess? Her green eyes make her an exotic sell on the sex market, but the real reason she is taken is for magical purposes. Okay, so, after a chase and they lose the gang and the girlfriend named Miao. Once back in Lil China, Burton and Wang run into a funeral parade, blocking traffic, which slowly deteriorates into a street fight between some gangs and some elemental guys in huge hats: Thunder, Lightning and Punch. And then Jack and Wang get cornered by a scary Chinese ghost, whom Jack tries to run over, but the ghost wins and somehow gets the truck. Jack is mad.
       Then Jack and Wang team up with Kim Cattrall and her reporter friend to infiltrate the brothel they suspect Miao is being held at, but Jack blows their cover by asking for a green-eyed Asian girl, and then he has to run into the room where Miao is tied down and save her by force. But, I guess he fails because then Jack and Wang have to go into the gang's warehouse type building, but they are discovered and taken many floors underground and tied to chairs. The chairs are easy to escape from, but the elevator has a lot of buttons and they're not sure which one will lead to the scary ghost, who is apparently holding Miao in order to marry her and manifest a prophecy or just physically manifest. But as soon as he marries her, he will have a body again, and will no longer be a super-powerful ghost. Doesn't seem to add up. Egg Shein and Kim Cattrall join them in their fight for Miao, but Cattrall gets herself kidnapped and hypnotized, because, I guess the prophecy was just about women with green eyes, not Asians with green eyes? Its hard to say. So, Lo Pan and the 3 gi-gantos with the hats hold Jack and Wang at bay. Jack is easy to knock out, Wang is super good at Kung Fu. Then Lo Pan marries one or both of the green eyed gals, then they can blow him up, which they do, in a huge underground battle. The good guys win, and Jack gets his truck back. Oh, and he gets the money Wang owes him. Then, the Porkchop Express is back on the road.


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