"*It’s all in the reflexes!' Kurt Russell as a wisecracking, cool-hand truck driver, who sports a wife-beater and a well-groomed mullet and has a solution to every problem. After his friend Wang's girlfriend is kidnapped (and Jack's truck is stolen), they head to San Francisco's Chinatown to take back what belongs to them. What follows, however, is no atmospheric neo-noir but a B-grade fantasy horror flick that never takes itself seriously, not even for a moment. Thousand-year-old Chinese demons, flying kung fu fighters, thunder, lightning, machine guns, and exploding bad guys – everything demanding audiences expect from quality cinema. Round that out with loads of lowbrow humor and even lower-brow synthesizer music. Leave logic behind and just enjoy yourself." Nikola Paggio, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2018

"John Carpenter is one of the greatest things to happen to cinema, and Kurt Russell is THE one true God. If anyone could ever challenge the most incredible hero of all time, then it has to be the baddest, ancient Chinese-iest, completely insane David Lo-Pan. High-flying, ass-kicking good times await in this face-melting blast of pure awesomeness where you are treated to not only the laser-mouthed mega bad guy Lo-Pan but also his three unstoppable violent storm henchmen who possess the power of lightning, rain, and thunder.
BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA is the urban, subterranean, blue-collar version of "Indiana Jones" with half the smarts, twice the luck, and one million percent more charm. It's witty, it's clever, it's start-to-end action-packed, but most of all, it is probably the most fun any human can ever hope to achieve through cinema." Greg MacLennan, Alamo Drafthous Cinema

"'Ready, Jack?' asks Kurt Russell's Chinese buddy Wang before another fraught round of mayhem beneath the streets of San Francisco's Chinatown. 'I was born ready', comes back the growled response; and it is this level of conscious self-mockery which saves the John Wayne posturing and genre high kicks from being just another climber on the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" band wagon. Russell is the T-shirted bozo trucker, who only has to fire his gun into the ceiling for the plaster to fall on his head. Down the mean catacombs and underground streams of Chinatown he goes, in search of something or other and encountering every Chinese cliché known to man: devil women, 900-year-old sages, water tortures, black magic monsters. The icing on all this cake is a load of kung-fuey... Carpenter has always been a skilful genre mechanic, breathing life into old forms." Time Out Film Guide