While kung fu warriors and otherworldly spirits battle over the fate of two women, Russell s swaggering idiot manages to knock himself out or underestimate the forces he s dealing with. Jack Burton, a tough-talking, wisecracking truck driver whose hum-drum life on the road takes a sudden supernatural tailspin when his best friend s fiancee is kidnapped. Speeding to the rescue, Jack finds himself deep beneath San Francisco s Chinatown, in a murky, creature-filled world ruled by Lo Pan, a 2000-year-old magician who mercilessly presides over an empire of spirits. Dodging demons and facing baffling terrors, Jack battles his way through Lo Pan s dark domain in a full-throttle, action-riddled ride to rescue the girl.