1998 · wuxia · fantasy · fx
The Stormriders
Directed by Andrew Lau Wai-Keung2h 8m1998
Heeding a prophecy, a warlord trains two orphans after killing their parents. But the skills he teaches could lead to his downfall.
Our read: The Stormriders (1998) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive wuxia · fantasy · fx entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured wuxia / fantasy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
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