The Void - Malcolm McDowell plays the leader of a company trying to produce free energy with partical physics, but the daughter, played by Amanda Tapping, of a scientist killed in an early experiment gone wrong fears that the next experiment could lead to the creation of a black hole, destroying the earth. Helping her is Adrian Paul as her boyfriend and one of the companies' scientists. I found this kinda lukewarm. Not too badly executed, but nothing really exciting. Like many low-budget scieice/conspiracy movies, it relied heaviliy on supposedly intelligent people doing really stupid and irrational things just to move along the plot. Take ir or leave it...
Dragon Storm - a U.F.O. movie with John Rhys-Davies as a medieval king whose kingdom is attacked by dragons embedded in asteroids from space. He seeks help from a nearby kingdom, while plotting to take over that kingdom. A band of dragon slayers is put together to hunt down and kill the maurading dragons. I gotta hand it to U.F.O, there CG dragon effects were much better than others I've seen from them. I really liked them. Some of the story was contrived, such as mixing in the takeover plot with the dragon hunters, to add some drama that I didn't think was really needed, but it was quite a bit of fun with the dragons.
Evil Cult - saving the best for last, *this* was a lot of fun. Jet Li plays Chang Mo Kei as...a kid who grows up to be a kung fu master of several styles. That's the best plot summary I can give because this whole thing is a non-step frenetic movement of over the top wire-fu martial arts battles, magic and mysticism, and more Chinese names and spaghetti stranded plot lines then I could keep up with. Fairly typical HK production values with lots of battles and some horrendously bad and funny dubbing.
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