The “Ip Man” series of films directed by Wilson Yip and featuring the
great Hong Kong martial arts film star Donnie Yen of Boston have told
the story of the Wing Chun grandmaster after whom the films are named.
The films’ strengths have always been the actual martial arts fights
themselves. directed by the legendary Sammo Hung or Yuen Woo-Ping and an
uncredited Yen.To get more news about
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Yen’s quiet and dignified Ip Man is a widower, father and teacher of
the Wing Chun style of Kung Fu. He has a school in Hong Kong in the
early 1960s, although at the beginning of “Ip Man 4,” he is in San San
Francisco, where he attends a tournament to see his protege Bruce Lee
(an affable Kwok-Kwan Chan) fight.
Ip Man has received a diagnosis of cancer, although he has been told
he can survive with treatment. He is also in California to try to land a
place for his unruly teen son. He runs into trouble when the chairman
of the Chinatown Business Association and fellow Kung Fu grandmasters
take issue with Bruce Lee and his landmark martial arts book, which
reveals Chinese fighting secrets to non-Chinese people.
The screenplay by series regular Tai-lee Chan and others is the
usual weak point with its stereotype villains and badly translated
dialogue. But at the center of it all is Yen, who was the cast standout
in “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.” I honestly have no idea why his
performance as the Zatoichi-like sightless warrior monk Chirrut Imwe has
not led to more roles in U.S. films.
Highlights from the three previous films (there is another Ip Man
film series as well) can be seen during the action of “Ip Man 4.”
Cinematography by Siu-Keung Cheng is a big plus.
Like the previous films, the white characters in the film, who are
supposed to be American, sound oddly British or Australian, which is
because they are. Englishman Scott Adkins displays his awesome martial
arts skills as the film’s principal villain, a martial arts expert
Marine Gunnery sergeant. Yes, everything is basically a countdown to the
big showdown between Yen and Adkins. But, oh, what a showdown it is.
Long live Ip Man and Donnie Yen.
The Wall