One of Mike Stone's former Sensei's, Action/Kung Fu- Actor James Hong has recently had difficulty finding the star power he at one point had. He realized this after playing the nice, funny, blind, sensei training a fat guy in one of 2007's worst action/comedy films Balls of Fury. Hong sent a message to me via a dirty China Town dove expressing his frustration being unable to captivate an audience these days without Jackie Chan headlining. He is now looking for a solution considering his last shot at Action immortality will come though Dreamworks Animated SCI-Fi Movie, Kung Fu Panda due to release in June. Once I received this suicide letter I knew it was up to me to blog his greatest work in the 80's, where he played an immortal ruler of the world, the epic monster, ghost, magical, sorcery, action packed, street fighting classic-Big Trouble In Little China.
Jack Burton is a smart allec, truck driver stopping off in China Town, San Francisco to gamble with some old friends and make some quick cash. While there he mistakenly gets dragged into the most magical kidnaping mystery of the 80's involving the evil Lo Pan(reenacted by Hong) two girls with Green eyes and the cool, genius, Chinese master Egg Shell, remember that one?
Jack Burton(reenacted by Kurt Russell) with the help of old friends shows unbelievable courage not backing down from trolls, blobs, electrical men, skinless 2000 year olds, long finger nailed, 7 foot Kung Fu flipping maniacs that lurked in the back alleys, sewers and whore houses of C-Town. Russell with his quick and amazing one liners, amazing knife skills, swimming ability, cool hair, wicked coolly designed tank top and his unbelievable way with the Kim Catrall women shows that Tango and Cash was NOT a one hit wonder, this guy owned the Evil Chinese Magicians!
The Highlight with out a doubt is Hong's ability to play an immortal David Lo Pan who needs to marry a green eyed woman in order to free himself of his 2000 year old skinless body and from his other spiritual form that is just plain freaky. Hong's action moves, 7 foot tall appearance, ability to blow high powered blue light out of mouth and eyes, and his high flying flips make you feel sympathetic for his evilness and make you want to see him get resolved. But Jack Burton, Egg Shell and the gang prove once again that good guys carrying guns and pistols always win facing evil, magical, henchmen with electrocuting ability. (You think they would have learned that after seeing where that power got Dynamo)
One thing that Hong can take away from this blog is don't kill your self yet. The reason I say this is because there was a Monster on the back of the Pork Chop Express in the end of the movie that survived and was ready to attack Jack Burton. Its 22 years later, now would be the perfect time to release a sequel, lets do this Sensei Jimmy Hong.
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