The Morningstar
Avenger
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It's more than just deliberately cheesy, it's downright subversive. It's a hell of a lot smarter that it seems on the surface. Mr. Swaggering-Tough-Guy-Thinks-He's-John-Wayne Jack Burton is a nincompoop full of hot air, whose constantly out of his depth, who keeps losing his weapons, who keeps knocking himself unconscious, and who keeps getting his ass handed to him in fights. It's his minority "sidekick" whose actually the badass. It's a giant middle finger to the classic Hollywood leading man and all the action movie tropes there in.
So yeah, it's a genuinely awesome movie.
Well said. It's a giant piss take of 80s Hollywood cliches. And a great film in it's own right.