Where Wind And Cloud Meets

If you have been a huge fan of the Storm Riders movie back in 1998, then this movie will eventually go well with the fans. What I could remember was the all time popular sitting down pose by Cloud (Aaron Kwok) which was eventually a major hit and every boys in school eventually started to taking their own personal photos in the manner. With good news being announced that Ekin Cheng and Aaron Kwok would return 10 years after the original Storm Riders for a sequel, no wonder those ardent fans were buzzing about this movie since early 2009.

Name: The Storm Warriors (風雲 II)
Language: Cantonese
Date of release: 10th December 2009(Hong Kong)
Director: Danny Pang and Oxide Pang
Starring: Aaron Kwok, Ekin Cheng, Simon Yam

The movie tells of Lord Godless and his son, Heart; whom are out to take over the martial arts world and the Middle Kingdom. They imprisoned the Emperor together with a large number of martial artists and tried to make them subjugate. Even with Nameless, Wind and Cloud combined effort, they cannot defeat Godless and his impenetrable body armor. Injured from battle, they seek the help of reclusive master Lord Wicked who guides Wind into harnessing the powers of the dark side. A dejected Cloud who was shunned by Lord Wicked from training, were then taken in by Nameless as his student. Both Wind and Cloud quickly boosted up their martial arts skills through intense training by Lord Wicked and Nameless. Godless, meanwhile, is forcing the Emperor to reveal the location of the powerful "Dragon Bone" relic. Unable to control his newfound powers, Wind loses himself to the dark side, and sets out to destroy Godless... and Cloud.

Special effects... check! Awesome fighting sequences... check! Aaron Kwok sitting pose... check! Now I was thrilled to watch this movie at home after I bought the original DVD from the store and the movie just blows me away. I've read plenty of reviews how this movie sucked and has copied a lot of Western features, I'm very much disagreeing with those critiques. If you would just sit down, relax and open yourself to the movie, the entire movie is rather an enjoyable sequel to watch. The opening song that was sang by Aaron and Ekin was great as well. The bad point about this movie was Charlene Choi. She didn't really fit well for her role, period! And the worst thing that ever happened about this movie was... it didn't end as well as I thought. It leaves every fans hanging in the middle of the air with that bloody poor script! I hate middle of the air storylines. Never the less, I didn't go to the cinema's to watch it so I still enjoyed fast-forwarding when I see Charlene on the screen and repeating the best fighting parts a few times with the remote.

Rating: 5 out of 10 stars.