Ip Man
7/10
I
watched this crazy ass movie called Ip Man. It came out years ago and
I had heard of it and seen fight scenes but didn't have a desire to
really check it out. I watched the first few minutes one day and
finished the rest another and really liked this movie. It is about
this Wing Chun master in Foshan who is constantly being either
challenged to a duel or asked to be a teacher. He doesn't want to do
either. I'm not quite sure what he does for money but he and his
family appear very well off. One day this dude and his crew show up
and start beating the shit out of every other master. Literally like
“Oh you thought you was raw? Smack! Not anymore.” Their leader,
Jin, walks into Ip Man's house with all levels of disrespect and
challenges him. His wife tells him to not break anything. He ends up
destroying this guy in front of his friends and the whole town laughs
as if they could do anything.
Japan
invades China and everything is fucked. Ip Man and his family are
barely making it through so he decides to go work in the coal mine or
whatever for food and money. This cop from better times is working as
a translator for a Japanese general and every day they show up for
fighters to show some skill and they get a bag of rice. This old
master whips asses and gets his rice. One day he challenges three
guys at once and loses. He gets shot in the head so Ip Man is like
“Now I wanna fight.” I beats up ten dudes at once. He wants the
general and the general wants him but Ip Man holds back for his
family. Eventually they do end up fighting but it wasn't as cool as
other fights in the movie. It was cool but not as cool. Ip Man wins
but gets shot but lives somehow.
I
liked the look of this movie. It had a muted tone once the war
happened so anything that had color popped. They made them potatoes
look delicious. The fight scenes were incredible and I hope those
stunt men got paid well because some of them were just eating fists
to the face. There are like three more of these movies but I have
heard they get progressively worse. I know Mike Tyson is in one which
makes zero sense to me.
Donnie
Yen as Ip Man
Lynn
Hung as Cheung Wing-sing
Hiroyuki
Ikeuchi as General Miura
Tenma
Shibuya as Colonel Sato
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