Review of The Legend Is Born: Ip Man (2010) by David W — 13 Dec 2010
Another great movie on Ip Man topic.
This movie serves as a prequel to Ip Man's life before becoming the Master of Wing Chun. It depicts Ip Man's younger days in Hong Kong as a student, and returning to Foshan, China, where he spends his formative years training to become the ultimate martial arts legend. The movie stars IP Chun, the eldest son of Master IP Man, as Leung Pik, IP Man's second Wing Chun master, Dennis To Yu Hang, the youngest World Kung Fu Champion of Hong Kong who plays the young Ip Man and Fan Siu-wong, who also performed in the "Ip Man" series.
Was glad to see big brother Sammo Hung from the first scenes, but was more amazed when saw Yeun Biao too. Probably producers missed the perfect chance to promote this movie united three brothers together again, they could invite Jackie as a cameo actor, but did not... For me Sammo became the symbol of Ip Man movies and his new idea with a bllindfold fight with Yuen Biao looks great.
Wing Chun school became very popular and even children and girls study the art. And among all this crowd we can see Ip Man as a young purposeful student, who is very popular ladykiller and can kick anybody's ass. After he kicked the bad guys at the... more on budomate dot com.
This review of The Legend Is Born: Ip Man (2010) was written by David W on 13 Dec 2010.
The Legend Is Born: Ip Man has generally received positive reviews.
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