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It takes place in Chinatown.
It's similar to Little Italy. But Chinese.
Really great movie TBH, especially when you view Kurt Russel as the dumb white sidekick
I love the fact that it's an entire movie where the side-kick is treated as the main character, while the actual main character is treated as the side-kick. It's brilliant.
It's also responsible for by-far my most used line. "It's like I told my ex-wife. "Honey, I never drive faster than I can see. And besides that, it's all in the reflexes."
"You remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: 'Have ya paid your dues, Jack?' 'Yessir, the cheque is in the mail.'"
Jack talking tough on the radio sends me, he's just such a wannabe tough guy clown.
So many adventure movies have the white saviour action hero protagonist with a sidekick who's an (often racist) ethnic caricature. Jack is a caricature of an American tough guy, and it works so well. I wish we saw it in more movies.
Yeah, it really turns tropes on their head.
All the Chinese characters are the smart ones and the real heroes. And are played by actual Chinese actors.
The white guy is a dumbass who's in the right place at the right time and gets lucky.
He checks all the right boxes for a sidekick too.
He's comic relief. He's a flamboyant character. He chokes at almost every critical moment. He requires additional exposition so the rest of the team can explain things to the audience.
The camera follows him, and he thinks he's the main guy. But we know he's not.
"I'm starting to feel a bit like an outsider here."
"You are!"