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"The Void", "Dragon Storm", etc...

Started by Fearless Freep, August 07, 2005, 10:08:25 PM

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Fearless Freep

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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trekgeezer

So were there some Angel Boris nudie bits in Dragon Storm?

I agree that the dragons looked pretty good for a UFO film, I thought they looked a lot like the dragons from Reign of Fire.




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Fearless Freep

So were there some Angel Boris nudie bits in Dragon Storm?

Not really.  She stripped down to her underwear briefly once, but her hands and hair covered her breasts.

I agree that the dragons looked pretty good for a UFO film

Yeah, I'm used to the painfully obvious stuff from "Interceptors" and such...the one that sticks most in my mind was "Ravager".  I try not to let bad sfx, of any kind, distract me from enjoying a movie, but it was nice that these looked pretty good.   For what it's worth, William Zabka was not in this movie...

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