Size does matter.(Review) (video recording review)

Video Business, May, 2001 by Hulse, Ed

Devotees of John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China (Fox, color, PG-13,99 min. plus supplements, two discs, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, widescreen, W. 1986, $11.1 mu., $26.98, Street: May 22) maintain that this campy 1986 adventure anticipated the ever-the-top Hong Kong action films that now excite American movie fans.

Their case Is bolstered by the supplemental features included in Fox's handsome two-disc box set. Production notes, for example, reveal that Big Trouble was the first major Hollywood film to use the talents of distinguished Chinese martial-arts experts (and as originally scripted, it was meant to be a turn-of-the-century Western). The Hong Kong influence is also apparent in several of the seven deleted scenes restored for the disc from...

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