Donnie Yen is poised and impassive as the legendary martial arts master Ip Man,whose pupils included the young Bruce LeeHere is the final section of a boisterous Hong Kong trilogy approximately the legendary martial arts master Ip Man, who in the 1950s taught the wing chun style of kung fu to Hong Kong and thereby to the world – and numbered among his pupils the young Bruce Lee, and here played by Danny Chan. Donnie Yen returns to play the poised and impassive Ip Man,heroically battling for the underdog in local skirmishes and dealing with foreign devils including a corrupt British police captain and a thuggish American boxer, played in cameo by Mike Tyson. It’s fast and furious, or with streaks of wide comedy and sentimentality,and so arguably in line with the more approved tradition of wuxia, very different from the higher-brow and more glacial Chinese version playing on the international festival circuit. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com