John Carpenter
Grosso Guaio A Chinatown

With Iggy Pop, I did a shitty review, now I'll fix it...
"Big Trouble in Little China" is a mess.

A melodramatic romantic western film with a sexual backdrop that mixes people beating each other with sticks, katana, chains, and punches to the face, stomach, gums, molars, and canines.

Jack Burton is a truck driver with a CB-radio fixation, dresses as a woman, and picks up Nigerian prostitutes exploited by the Chinese mafia, but he's also a fool who thinks of himself as Harry Callahan and acts out "You'll feel like dirty Harry."

Jack is a cool guy and flirts with a journalist, Margo, who pretends to be aloof; she's looking for sexual thrills and thus combines business with pleasure for her scoops... she's one of those who "never minds her own business and loves everyone else's" the kind you find in any porn movie, so...
But Jack isn't an idiot, or rather he is, but in this circumstance, he goes all out and at the end of the film, he breaks up with Margo.
Jack is a tough guy, catching bottles on the fly that his friend Wang Chi throws to him, even betting a million dollars, and they go on like this for almost the entire film.
But it turns out that our Jack is not the main protagonist, and therefore no one cares a damn about who he is.

To avoid boredom and getting Carpenter irritated, the friend "Chi," Chi? The friend! Whose friend? Chi's friend! black belt in karate Wing Chi, loses his girl Mao Yin, betting her on bottle throws with his friend.
Mao Yin is a Chinese refugee who only wears contact lenses when she's not prostituting and is passed off as "authentic Chinese with green eyes."
Chi's girlfriend? ...Whose girlfriend?! Chi's, the bottle friend of Jack, keeps a mystery from him, namely CHI keeps a mystery from Jack, which will compromise their lives.
It will cause deaths, massacres, people beating each other with sticks, katana, chains, punches to the face, stomach, gums, molars, canines; the girl is mute, not saying a word throughout the film.
Perhaps she was recommended by Margo the journalist before being cast?

This "reverse hero-sidekick" relationship Jack-Chi, as stated on Wikipedia, goes on indefinitely, until CHI, Jack's friend, to avoid losing the girl for free, sells her to a Chinese porn director known as Lo Pan(e).

Initially determined to find the girl, more Jack than Chi; both head to Chinatown to track down the formidable criminals: "the Lords of PORNO."
Instead, they stumble upon the funeral of the leader of the Chang Sing, a warrior sect friendly with Wang Chi, but suddenly the formidable Wing Kong, enemies of the Chang Sing, pop up, damn I took this from Wikipedia because I was losing track of all this crap.
Then Bud Spencer and Terence Hill, for whatever strange reason, burst onto the scene alongside Lo Pan, and thus begins the usual frenzy of beatings, without logical reason.
Meanwhile, enjoying "the beauty" from their truck, Jack and Chi find the unexpected and a scam just around the corner, as Lo Pan, to whom Mao Yin was sold, flips the bird to Chi, denying him the cash.

Jack figures out the fraud, and Chi is left stunned, and after being beaten up like two sausages, they run away, while Jack kicks Chi.

So who's in trouble? Sorry, so Chi is in trouble; but he decides with the help of Uncle Egg Shen, a fortune teller often humiliated on Striscia, along with the tough Chang Sing sect, Gracie Law, one casually passing by, journalist Margo(t) "Mrs. never minding her own business," Eddie, Wang Chi's cousin, Mao, second cousin, and Bruce Li, third cousin, and the brother-in-law’s mother-in-law Sub-Zero, sorry I have no idea what’s going on, practically everyone in the film against Lo Pan.

So begins the adventure of our Goonies in search of Mao Yin, to prevent Lo Pan from marrying her and becoming the most dangerous man in that shithole neighborhood that is Chinatown, but we Westerners don't give a damn about Americans and Chinese, as we can't even handle those in Italy.

In the film, Carpenter does all sorts of things, even creating a cameo in which he plays a disabled man in a wheelchair, trying by all means, as promised by the producers, to sleep with Mao Yin, but no way! because Kurt Russell, who hadn't understood a thing about the script, towards the end of the movie, even steals the wheelchair and almost kills himself over a cliff, risking to reshoot the entire film from the start.

I'll give you a tip you won't find anywhere else, because it's mine, notice the assonance indicating Carpenter’s passion for Lupin, the villain is called LO PAN, while the journalist who will also be married, along with Mao Yin, is named Margo(t).

A movie for tough people of all tastes, in which those seemingly weak, like Egg Shen, Wing Chi, and Jack Torrance and the Chang Sing sect, become invincible, thanks to a magical fluid, a tremendous bullshit, and start beating the crap out of the antagonists, like in Bruce Lee movies.
 
At the end of the film, everyone dies except Mao Yin, who being mute, has nothing to say.

A great movie for all fans of the genre.