The Storm Riders
The Storm Riders
| 18 July 1998 (USA)
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Based on a comic book called Fung Wan, the movie stars Ekin Cheng as Wind and Aaron Kwok as Cloud. The plot involves two children, Whispering Wind and Striding Cloud, who become powerful warriors under the evil warlord Conquer's tutelage. They grow up serving as his subordinates, but a love triangle and an accident leads to a quest for retribution.

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Listonixio

Fresh and Exciting

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Plustown

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

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Marva

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

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Rexanne

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

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Dariunas

This was one of those films I knew nothing about when I got it. I liked the look of it, and bought it. The dubbed version isn't too bad as a film, but certainly has been severely cut as I found out when I bought the DVD version.One criticism I have is that even the original Cantonese language is dubbed rather weakly. The special effects deserve a special mention as they are the best CGI to come out of a Hong Kong production, and only The Avenging Fist and perhaps a few others come close. The way FX are used in fight scenes can be spectacular at times, especially when Cloud and Wind use their powers. However, there is little in the way of tight pacey choreography like most successful Hong Kong martial art films.Ekin Cheng is consistently good, and Aaron Kwok is excellent as the brooding Cloud. The characters come across brilliantly with a real focus that's pretty rare these days where most films try to create a complicated character and fail. This film takes it's characters and pushes all the way through.The music deserves a special mention too. More electronic and driving with the distinct eastern feel, it reminds me of high budget computer game music. If anyone has played a Final Fantasy, or Squaresoft game, you'll know where I'm coming from! The story works well, however, to me, the film has a rather unfinished feel to it. They have tried to fit years of Comic book story into the film and haven't quite succeeded. It's a great effort, but VERY ambitious. If you don't know the comic books, this was adapted from, it's even better.In all honesty, there is no film I have ever seen quite like Stormriders, although on the surface, you may think, crouching tiger/Hero' type film, but it has a TOTALLY different feel.This is a film that deserves to be seen on the merit of being more than the sum of it's parts and that you probably won't ever see anything else like it.

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luke

Unlike Hollywood films which use special effects which look out of place this film actually has entire sets which are computer generated and special effects which are needed to create the comic book illustrations and work extremely well when showing the power of the main characters. Both of the main actors play out their roles perfectly and really become the characters. After watching this film I am now ordering the Duel and a man named hero also directed by Andrew Lau

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stormruston

I really liked this movie,and both leads were perfect in there roles.this is a action fantasy with lots of cool but hoky special effects and almost non stop action.Great fighting scenes and decent special effects.your 12 to 15 year olds will love it as will most si-fi/fantasy/kung-fu buffs.

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InzyWimzy

This was very entertaining to watch. The special effects are great as fight scenes giving the characters super powers. The story is not hard to follow and the whole concept of fate is key. Conquer (played by Sonny Chiba) is the antagonist who's someone you do NOT mess with. I think it's his deep voice though that gives him that real evil aura. I really didn't find myself disliking his character which, again, is credit to Sonny. He's just a really cool baddie.Wind and Cloud are really cool to watch. Their powers are amazing to see and they can deal a lot of damage. Interesting triangle involved too. One thing that films like this do is focus too much on the effects and disregard the acting. Storm Riders gives you two great warriors: Wind is strong, but kind hearted and caring. Cloud is unpredictable and has a tough demeanor. Give credit to Aaron Kwok who gives a great performance. His blank look stare totally defines his character. Hey, add Kristy Yang and Shu Qi, you can't lose!!Definitely one worth watching.

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