As the enemy devise a tournament competition in which Chinese fighters take on Japanese soldiers, I realised I was watching a great, edge-of-your-seat film in which the story is just as good as the action sequences. It kicks off in typical fashion, with a fight master forced to battle a couple of up-themselves rivals, but then the story gets serious as the Japanese army arrives. In actual fact, this turns out to be a brilliant piece of filmmaking that ranks as one of the best kung fu flicks I've seen in many years. Straight away I was reminded of the Jet Li film FEARLESS, another biopic about a real-life martial artist, but from the first fight scene I knew that IP MAN was going to be better: the wirework isn't as obvious and there are none of the cheesy CGI effects that spoiled some of the fights in the Li film. Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 9 / 10 Blows Fearless out of the waterĭonnie Yen headlines this excellent biopic of Ip Man, a real-life historical figure who taught Bruce Lee wing chun and overcame Japanese oppression on the eve of WW2. A simply terrific film-and I challenge you to find one better! Because it is so good, I couldn't help but give this one a well-earned 10. I am very sure that in China this film must have been a great source of pride-seeing Ip Man standing up to the murderous Japanese occupiers. I read that MUCH liberty was taken with his life in the film-and I doubt if the guy really did half the things they show the actor (Donny Yen) playing him did! But, it is constantly entertaining and even uplifting. The film covers only a portion of Master Ip Man's life-mostly the 1930s-both before and during the Japanese occupation of his homeland. There is no 'wire fu' here-just fast and amazingly talented people making it look authentic. In these bad films, you see horrible martial arts where blows barely come near their opponents or kicks that look like my grandmother was fighting! Heck, I even remember one film with gorillas doing kung fu-and they obviously were two guys wearing VERY cheap Halloween costumes! Because of the many bad films, it's a pleasure to see 'Ip Man'-a film where the fighting is the most realistic you'll ever see. For every exceptional film (such as most of the Shaw Brothers films or the better films of Sonny Chiba) there are the god-awful ones-movies that are embarrassingly bad.

However, I am not blind to the problems that have often plagued the genre. I have seen and enjoyed many, many martial arts film.

Reviewed by MartinHafer 10 / 10 This ain't what your daddy watched back in the 1960s and 70s!

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