Sonny Chiba, Qi Shu, Kristy Yang

Lord Conquer (Sonny Chiba) is a great and mighty warlord who wants to take over the world. To do so, he must defeat another warrior named Sword Saint (Anthony Wong); but the battle is prophesized to t...( read more  read more... )ake place in ten years. Lord Conquer's servant, Mud Buddah, says that he can make himself invincible by then if he can make two certain children into his disciples. Those children are Whispering Wind (Ekin Cheng) and Striding Cloud (Aaron Kwok). But Lord Conquer discovers that if Wind and Cloud were to unite against him, they could overthrow him. He tries to avoid this by marrying his daughter Charity (Kristy Yang) to Wind. Cloud intervines and Lord Conquer accidentally kills Charity. Meanwhile, the time has come for Lord Conquer's duel with Sword Saint. He shows his true intentions by turning against Cloud and Wind. Now it's a free-for-all battle between Lord Conquer, Sword Saint, Cloud, and Wind. And only one will emerge the victor!

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PG-13, 128 min.

Directed by: Wai-keung Lau

Release Date: September 26, 2000

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DVD Release Date: December 11, 2001

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  • October 2, 2009
    Bad, the type of movies that killed the HK industry in the late 90s. And now they're making a sequel, damn. This is in many ways the bastard child of many of those shaw bros wuxia/fantasy combos. As dated as some of those movies are, you could always count on seeing someone liek ...( read more)Ti Lung or Lo Lieh bring something to the whole thing. Aaron Kwok and Ekin Cheng on the other hand? Just pretty boys with zero charisma or any acting skill whatsoever.
  • April 30, 2008
    Based on a comic book, this is yet another story of an evil martial artist who want to take over the"world of martial arts" by following a prophecy and collecting a bunch of swords with ridiculous names. I watched Seven Swords recently and found it disappointing and lame, but com...( read more)pared to this, it's King Lear. Everything about this film is so unbelievably naive it almost beggars belief; the plot is like something out of a bad videogame. So are the effects for that matter! It's just a bunch of terrible actors flying around on wires in front of probably the worst CGI I have ever seen in a movie. The title sequence looks like something out of the intro screen to a Playstation one game! All the characters are ridiculous stereotypes, especially Sonny Chiba's cackling villain who is straight out of an end of the pier pantomime. The sets are awful, the plot an endless stream of melodramatic cliches and rarely rises above the standard of a children's cartoon, and the tacky, amateurish direction means even the action is a total mess. I'm a big fan of samurai films, but this is easily the worst example I've ever seen. Absolutely dismal.
  • March 14, 2006
    The whole experience felt like a videogame (apparently based on a Chinese comic book, I later found out). Everything about this screamed "bad movie", yet I have to admit I was thoroughly entertained. Tremendously fun to watch.
  • October 5, 2009
    Quite an entertaining mythical chinese fantasy film. It does relies a tad too heavily on visual effects though. The 2 male leads,Ekin Cheng as Whispering Wind and Aaron Kwok as the moody but dashing Striding Cloud were pretty convincing in their roles.
  • August 11, 2009
    YEAH!!!! Way better than Dragonball Evolution!!! ^_^
  • January 6, 2009
    Loads of action, good story and some bad voice overs if yoou watch it in English.
  • December 11, 2008
    Cool...! This movie had an enormous vogue in my class when i studied primary school. Aaron Kwok is my super idol...! i like him, he is very handsome...!
  • November 8, 2008
    No thankyou - Not interested
  • October 24, 2008
    Wai-keung Lau takes a comic known as Fung Wan and creates a more than decent movie adaptation out of it. This is The Storm Riders.

    The plot for this movie has its highs and its lows, but as a whole it fits into the action/fantasy genre nicely. The very beginning

    ...( read more) of this film is a little sloppy and it is a little difficult to get the story straight, but it isn't long before everything starts to make sense. Unfortunately, about half of the way though, the plot sort of disappears and out comes this little love triangle sub story. During this period it is tough to pick out who to route for or even decide who the true villain is. Eventually, everything comes together for the ending and it pretty much redeems itself.

    The pace is fairly rapid even though the run time somehow ends up past 2 hours, which is a bit long. The film never drags on any one scene or setting too long and that helps to keep things fresh. It's just too bad that this applies to the fights. There are multiple action sequences, but they are all just too short. If you combine this with the 2+ hour run time, it feels like there isn't much of it at all.

    There is a ton of CG throughout this picture and it isn't surprising considering this comes from a comic. It isn't that great looking, especially in the beginning, but as the movie progresses, it becomes more effective and tolerable.

    As far as the acting goes, Aaron Kwok and Ekin Cheng pull off their roles of Cloud and Wind respectively. Sonny Chiba puts on quite a performance as Lord Conqueror and Kristy Yang is nothing more than a pretty face. Shu Qi, who doesn't even show up until the hour mark, is one of the over actors. This isn't a bad thing, since her overacting isn't annoying, but rather it comes across as some comic relief, which this films needs.

    The Storm Riders does have its flaws and it definitely isn't the greatest film of this genre, but it isn't a waste of time if you're in the mood for a action/fantasy flick.

  • October 16, 2008
    action and special effect

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