* The opening. It may be a ForgottenFramingDevice, but it walks you right through what kind of film this is gonna be. [[EstablishingSeriesMoment From the minute you see lightning crackle between Egg Shen's fingers]], you know this is going straight past MaybeMagicMaybeMundane and into a Wuxia WorldOfWeirdness!
* Say what you will about Jack Burton's dorkiness, but he still gets the chance to kill the villain: Lo Pan throws Jack's knife at him, then Jack almost casually catches it and ''puts it right between Lo Pan's eyes!''
-->'''Jack Burton:''' [[BondOneLiner It's all in the reflexes]].
* All the fight scenes are very well choreographed. Such as the street fight and Wang VS Rain.
* Egg Shen's duel with David Lo Pan. Any sorcerers worth their salt can engage in a WizardDuel; but to make their BeamOWar transform into a pair of spirit warriors who engage in an epic slow-motion swordfight? ''That,'' you don't see every day.
** Everything to do with Egg Shen in general. From his implied history with the BigBad, to using various magical cantrips to fend off the [[CoDragons Three Storms]] with ease, to his BadassBookworm nature, he's among the coolest of fiction's [[CoolOldGuy Cool Old Guys]].
* Wang at the arcade. Especially his running around the arch upside down.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: John Carpenter films tended to have this.
** In a nice little detail, the alarm bell that sounds as the heroes are leaving the warehouse is timed to exactly match the beat of the action music.