Storm Warriors

The story basically goes like this:

If you watched the Storm Riders before, the movie is about the brotherhood of 2 heroes, namely Wind and Cloud. This movie starts off with Wind (Ekin), Cloud (Aaron Kwok) and another hero named Nameless (Ho Kaking) defeated by a Japanese villian named Lord Godless (Simon Yam) and his sidekick/son Heart (Nicholas Tse). The trio managed to escape to rebuild their strength before another face off with Lord Godless. During their hideout, Wind found a sifu to build his strength through evil (think Venom and Spidey) while Cloud got his additional strength from the remaining strength of Nameless. Meanwhile, Lord Godless expanded his power throughout China and managed to capture the emperor to get hold of the ultimate power, which is the Dragon Spine (something like a skeletal belt). Before Lord Godless got hold of that bone, Wind and Cloud finish downloading the power intercepted and fight, with Wind looks like a ghost (due to his evil training) and Cloud with his new sword skills. They managed to kill Lord Godless but Wind had lost himself to the evil side and started killing the innocence. Last last cloud managed to save him out from stepping deeper into the dark side but...... (buy tickets and watch la the ending)

Read more of it here.

My take:

Very good CGI. Some scenes looks like 300. Very cool characters and poses. Very nice choreographic. Very sharp audio and sound effects. But I think this movie got the least lines in HK movies. The characters seldom talk. Each of them has less than 10 lines dialog. But the eyes, the action and the music and the whatsnot manage to convey what they wanted to say. Story wise, not very strong. The ending is not complete, maybe a part 3? The 2 ladies (Cloud and Wind gf respectively) are abit annoying with all the names calling (Wan Taiko, Fung Taiko etc). Overall, this is only a feast to the sight and sound.

If this happens in real world:

If you walk and talk and sit and pose like Wind and Cloud, people will think you come from Jinjang. Barn sai yeh!!

EXTRAS:

Can someone confirm that there is a Love symbol on Lord Godless vest?

Food to go along with this: Hokkien Mee and Chinese Tea lor..

I rate this movie 4/5 buttered popcorns.

So, try to enjoy the movies!