Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead is a fascinating idea: What if a couple dudes just… made up a franchise? Something that takes all the tropes and visual cues of being based on a comic book or young adult novel series, just without the source material.
On paper this movie should whip ass. The premise sounds like exactly the kind of nonsense a young adult fantasy author who’s read a few Ray Bradbury short stories would cook up. There’s always an incredibly simple 1970s sci-fi premise at the core with a bunch of marketable modern movie tropes layered on top. The big bad even kind of evokes a bygone time when you’d find a Yule Brynner type and put him in futuristic clothing just ‘cus the face was severe enough to pull it off.
Turns out: you kinda need that 3.5/5 quality young adult novel as a jumping off point for something like this.
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