Rating of
0.5/4
"The Storm Riders" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 04/16/12
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 compared 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.
