Before superhero movies ate the world, Hong Kong gave us The Storm Riders: a thundercrack of comic-book wuxia, billowing capes and mythic brooding, impossibly tragic posing and magic swords, flowing heroic hair and CGI turned up past good sense. Andrew Lau hurls Ma Wing-shing’s beloved martial-arts manhua into full end-of-the-century overdrive, with Sonny Chiba devouring the screen as Lord Conquer, a warlord told by prophecy that two boys, Wind and Cloud, will make him invincible… until prophecy changes its mind and marks them as his doom. Raised as his disciples and played by Ekin Cheng and Aaron Kwok at peak pop-idol intensity, the two warriors are thrown into a maelstrom of forbidden love and supernatural battles (Anthony Wong’s unforgettable Sword Saint). Shu Qi co-stars in this saga built to be seen big.