Movie | The Legend Is Born: Ip Man | Pass

This was not a great movie. Other than the fascinating (but regrettably mostly fictitious) documentation of Wing Chun's modern messiah Ip Man's life, the rest of the movie is pretty fluffy and ridiculous. The acting is fairly good, but the choreography just goes on and on and the usage of wire-fu just sucked the life out of it for me.

Oh, and the appearance of the real-life son of Ip Man, Ip Chun was very cool. Sammo Hung was his usual superb self and casting Yuen Biao was a brilliant move (he was the star of the best Wing Chun movie to date before the Donnie Yen's version - The Prodigal Son). The actor who played Ip Man was unfamiliar to me, but he was quite good.

But, unless you're a hardcore Wing Chun follower or just really love kung fu movies, this one is barely a Pass. Bummer. If you're looking for something really worth seeing, check out the movies that I've mentioned, The Prodigal Son and Ip Man instead.