Some films are so ludicrous that finally become legendary. Big Trouble In Little China is most certainly one of those. The satire of the male stereotype along with a totally insane story with elements of fantasy, martial arts, action and comedy make this films a true revelation. There is absolute chaos in this film and the more chaotic it gets the better it looks. This is an example of a film that things are not taken seriously and that has an impact on the movie, transforming it from a typical B movie action based film to a real feast of humour, a crazy feast of adventure and mayhem. Really there are no words to describe what is happening in there you can see from demons and monsters till crazy villains, martial arts experts, flying like birds. This is maybe the greatest moment of the director John Carpenter who unleashed all his irony and satire and made a movie that contains everything there is to contain in a film. Big Trouble In Little China is an example where logic plays no role at all. Everything that is happening is on a sphere of the totally insane, the protagonist finds himself totally surprised by the events and we, together with him, we are losing our minds with a film that is trying hard to make us believe that filmmaking is more like a farce than anything else. There is no doubt that we are talking about an ingenious creation, a creation that doesn't suffer from hang-ups and pretentious ideas, a creation that really petrifies the viewer with it humour and finally a creation that takes everything there is to take from genre cinema in order to turn it into the biggest prank that we have seen in cinema. Big Trouble In Little China is when cinema is deliberately destroyed and ridiculed in the most profound and astonishing way. It's the moment where everything falls apart and the only thing that stays standing is the endless, bottomless power of satire and humour. A fucking crazy ride.
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