Nick Danger This is the best kung fu movie I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot of them, including, of course, all of Bruce Lee's movies.What Bruce Lee's movies always lacked, this movie has - proper motivation for the lead actor. Bruce Lee fought for...let's just call them trivial...reasons. In his handful of great martial arts movies, he fought for:The honor of his fighting style over other fighting stylesA restaurant troubled by hooligansSomeone breaking his mother's amuletVictory in an illegal martial arts tournamentNothing too heavy there. But Ip Man is next-level stuff. The backdrop is the Japanese invasion of China in WWII. The occupiers are heartless and cruel, the occupied starving, treated as slaves. The peace-loving Ip Man, who lives by Confucian principles, is drawn into conflict with the invaders against his will, and every fight is important for its own reason. You will find yourself cheering for Ip Man not because he's a great character, though he is; but because his motivation is your motivation.The action sequences are just terrific. You want your hero to be invincible, and he is, in the most satisfying way possible.This is a great movie and I highly recommend it, even for people who aren't into the martial arts genre.

davidtkd-25249 Ip Man is a 2008 martial arts film based on the events and life of Grandmaster Ip Man, a teacher of Wing Chun and mentor of the legendary Bruce Lee. The film focuses on the events in Ip's life that supposedly took place in Foshan during the Sino-Japanese war. The film stars Donnie Yen, Simon Yam, Lynn Hung, Hiroruki Ikeuchi, and Tenma Shibuya. The Plot: The movie begins in 1935 - Foshan. Foshan is bustling with activites and martial arts popularity is through the roof with many masters opening their own schools and training disciples. In many people's mind there was only one martial arts master who was the best. However, this master had no interest in opening a school to teach his art. This master's name was Ip Man, played by Hong Kong martial arts action star Donnie Yen.Master Liu (Chen Zhi-hui) visits Ip Man (Donnie Yen) at his house when Ip Man is having dinner with his wife, Cheung Wing-sing (Lynn Hung), and his son. Ip Man asks Master Liu to leave and come back at another time. However, Liu insists so he stays and waits for Ip Man to finish his dinner with his wife and son. Master Liu challenges Ip Man to a sparring match. It is of friendly nature and not a hostile one. Ip Man wins the match and comes out on top. The rest of the film is focused on the Japanese occupation AKA the Sino-Japanese war and how Ip Man and Cheung Wing-sing make it through and survive. I don't to go too in depth because I don't want to give any spoilers. The film was the very first film ever made on the life of Ip Man and was directed by Wilson Yip. The fantastic martial arts choreography was done by the legendary Sammo Hung. Overall, Ip Man (2008) is a masterpiece in martial arts cinema. It is one of the greatest martial arts films of all-time and definitely Donnie Yen's best film. Highly Recommended.10/10.

TheBigSick This martial arts film is famous for its well-choreographed fight sequences. In a fight with ten Japanese samurai, the martial artist Donnie Yen displays his truly brilliant fighting ability. In particular, he punches the same person many times very fast in a extremely short period of time. It is called "chain punches", which is invented by Donnie Yen.

gamergcfan This is a martial arts movie. So it's just lots of mindless action scenes, right? No! This is way more than the mundane martial arts flick.There are just so many things about this movie that allows is to transcend as a martial arts movie.The first and foremost are the martial arts scenes. I've seen other martial arts movies, and those fighting scenes were "cool," but only in the sense that they are fun to watch; however, they are mainly placed only for the sake of having those scenes. But what about these action scenes? They are meaningfully placed into the film. In addition, they are more than "cool"-looking; they are outstanding with the incredible realism and the true "wow" factor that are absent in other martial arts films.The second thing that transcends is the plot. It is not deficient in plot at all unlike other martial arts movies. Its plot is reasonably good even when pitted against other movies outside of this genre that are expected to have good plots.The final thing is that the characters are just exceptional for this genre. Rather than a boring hero, we have someone of significant depth that is absent in other martial arts movies.This movie trumps other martial arts movies in so many ways that it is just amazing. It is a masterpiece of a martial arts movie that delivers due to action, characters, and plot that way exceed expectations.This is worthy of Academy Awards. It's not those mindless martial arts movies; it's very meaningful, resonant, and fine-crafted.+ GREAT, GREAT martial arts scenes+ Thoughtful story+ Great characters+ Emotional resonanceScore: 10. This movie is really amazing. I would give it an 11 if I could, as this may be the best movie I have ever seen.