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List Price: $17.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 85 reviews)
Sales Rank: 5757
Category: DVD
Director: Wai Keung Lau
Publisher: Tai Seng
Studio: Tai Seng
Manufacturer: Tai Seng
Label: Tai Seng
Format: Ac-3, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: Chinese (Subtitled), English (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 128 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.2 x 0.6
UPC: 601643776248
EAN: 0601643776248
ASIN: B00004RF3O
Release Date: December 11, 2001
Theatrical Release Date: November 30, 1997
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Editorial Reviews:
Description
Based on the best-selling, long-running martial arts comic book series "Fung Wan: Wind and Cloud" by celebrated artist Ma Wing-Shing, "The Storm Riders" stars Hong Kong pop superstars Ekin Cheng and Aaron Kwok as orphans raised by the powerful Conqueror, who taught them martial arts so to help him dominate the world.
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Customer Reviews: Read 80 more reviews...
 Power Rangers is better to watch :-| June 13, 2006
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
This movie is so unbelievably horrible, I am pleading for you to rethink watching. I haven't seen something so bad, since, well, The Village. I would rather watch The Power Rangers than this movie. This movie, seriously, looks like it was filmed with my grandmother's video camera. Absolutely ridiculous...save yourself the time and money
Good, but could use work June 8, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I enjoyed this movie a lot. It had some pretty good fights, an interesting story and great characters. The problem, and one of the reasons why I didn't give it a 5, is because its SO disjointed. Tai Seng is a lot like a double-edged sword. They've got several TV Dramas that they release in the States subtitled, but they edit them to fit a smaller format. They've fit 30 hours of story into 2 hours. To do this, they removed a lot of side story and just plopped the viewers into the middle of some stuff with just enough information to sort things out. The only other downfall to this movie is that in several spots, the CGI effects look really, horribly bad/cheesy. Overall, however, it still was a good movie.
 Don't be confused with the 1998 film! May 21, 2006
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This version "Wind and Cloud - The Storm Riders" made in 2004 is not the same as "The Storm Riders" made in 1998.
This dvd is a condensed version of a TV series packaged by Tai Seng. It is full-screen and was made for TV. It is pretty disjointed as it was condensed into 2 hours from 30 hours.
Most people doing the reviews for this DVD is confusing everyone writing positive reviews for the 1998 film staring Aaron Kwok and Ekin Chen.
THIS is not a Storm Riders sequel! May 14, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
NOTICE: this is not really a sequel.
This is one of those Television movie/mini-series remakes of a theatrical release. You will not get cinematic visuals, you will get TV quality visuals.
Too many people are not providing appropriate reviews and this is more a betrayal of your consumer bethren.
The original Storm Riders is an amazing fantasy tale, this is not. This is more like a standard kung fu action flick that uses the characters. Storm Riders had that fantasy feel, this does not. There is good kung fu action, but this thing seems incoherent while you are trying to watch it, and that may be because they have tried to cut and paste the movie together, if my theory is correct in that it was a miniseries adaptation. The story starts and stops with no flow.
If you just want an action flick with some decent fight scenes get this, it's tolerable, but in no way is it on the caliber of Storm Riders. I really wish they establish a standard that differentiates the TV adaptations from real theatrical releases, such releases tend to be a bit insulting.
The ONLY thing that is redeeming for this is a really cute female actor, and that's it! I've never seen Wind and Cloud so unattractive, and this is based off Aaron Kwock and Ekin Cheng. These 2 are appropriate, but no substitute.
 A Cheaper Wind and Cloud March 24, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I placed an order with Overstock for this (hasn't yet been released), but the price is more reasonable than Amazon.
I've seen the first Storm Riders and was just thrilled at the fantasy texture involved with the story/comic. Lots of kung fu buffs will rag on movies like this, but they are unable to delineate between kung fu and kung fu fantasy. They are different. Storm Riders is a feast for the eyes and I'm anxiously awaiting the sequel.
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