And i am not saying this as a jab to the main actor, who did a good job. Its all the rest. The story take some of the lines from the first Donnie movie, but is not as well structured or emotional. In this movie you often see Ip Man fighting a gazillion of dudes at the same time, sometimes they are even armed with hatchets etc and yet he never get a scratch. In the Yen's movie, sure he sometimes fight a lot of dudes but its never to the point where it get comical.
I was laughing too often in this one when i shouldn't had. I didn't really get into the story much while i usually really enjoy the Ip movies, even the non Donnie Yen ones. But despite the laughing nature of some fights, they made me laugh so i supose the movie kept me entertained?
I didn't hate it by any mean, its fine i supose to pass time, but its just nowhere as good as it could had been.
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During his time as a police captain in Foshan, Ip Man is targeted by a vengeful gangster just as the Japanese army invades the region.
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This is no Donnie Yen's Ip Man
Gawd!!
This was so bad. Opening scene of one (only hands/feet) against over a hundred adversaries (and with hand axes). Defeats them all. More mass disparity fight scenes follow; all have been seen so many times before. Nothing creative; lots of stereotypes; no acting; no story; good promotional commercial for a kung fu style. Vague ending to make money off of a sequel.
Lacking a properly thorough storyline...
I must admit that when I stumbled upon the 2019 movie "Ip Man: Kung Fu Master" here in 2021 then I was fairly surprised and thrilled. I didn't know that they had made another Ip Man movie, so this was a nice surprise. And needless to say that I needed no persuasion to sit down to watch it.
Well, hold your horses there for a second. This movie is not as good as the most other Ip Man movies were, particularly the ones with Donnie Yen. No, not even close.
Sure, "Ip Man: Kung Fu Master" was watchable, but don't get your hopes up high for this 2019 movie from writers Liming Li and Qingshui Shi. It was watchable, yeah, but this movie was just lacking a properly thoroughly thought-through storyline. Everything in the movie seemed rushed and shallow.
Yu-Hang To - playing Ip Man - definitely knew his martial arts and put on a rather impressive display. But a movie about him just fighting was hardly something that counted as properly entertaining. A shame really, that the writers had failed to come up with a more interesting and complete storyline.
While I managed to sit through the entire movie, this is hardly a martial arts classic, nor is it a movie that warrants more than a single viewing.
My rating of "Ip Man: Kung Fu Master" lands on a four out of ten stars. The movie came and went without leaving much of a lasting impression. If you enjoy martial arts movies, there are far better movies out there. And if you enjoy movies about Ip Man, there are far better movies out there.