Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grandmaster

Ip Man 2 is the sequel to the Ip Man movie once again directed by Wilson Yip.This is now the 5th collaboration with Donnie Yen.Their credits include SPL aka Killzone,Flashpoint (rumored to be a prequel of Killzone),Dragon Tiger Gate,Ip Man.The movie has most of the returning actors from the first Ip Man. Sammo Hung,Lo Meng (Five Venoms,Kid With Golden Arm),Fung Hak On(Magnificent Butcher,Last Hurrah for Chivalry,Five Shaolin Masters),Darren Shalavi,(Mortal Kombat Web Series,Tai Chi Boxer)Kent Cheng(Once Upon a Time in China),Dennis To Yue(Ip Man Legend Begins),Huang Xiao Ming (Sammo Hung's son).After years of Ip Man's escape from Mainland China.He relocates to Hong Kong to live in poverty.Ip is trying to make ends meet and wants to teach Wing Chun to students.After he has some recognition he must get permission from the other masters to teach and prove himself that he can.One of the masters is played by Sammo Hung who is an expert at Hung Fist.At the same time Hong Kong is ruled by the British and make the Chinese work for little money.There is an event boxing match of Britain's famous Boxer Twister (Shahlavi) who is an arrogant selfish bully.He ridicules the Chinese martial artists at the boxing event and ends up hurting a couple.Master Hung decides to counter and go into a match with Twister.Twister has killed Master Hung in the ring and now Ip Man must prove that Chinese martial arts can defeat Western boxing.The fighting is superb.Combines both Wire Fu and Kung Fu and the editing never looked better.Donnie gets to fight with Shaw Brother's legends Lo Meng and Fung Hak On,even though the fights were short and they are both in their 60s,they are still in top form.Sammo's fight with Donnie is different from the one in Killzone because they fight in a round table and have very limited space.Later on they become friends instead of wanting to kill each other.Huang Xiao Ming plays Donnie's disciple Wong Shun Leng.His fighting isn't bad but to be Sammo's son he's got to prove himself.Dennis To from the Ip Man prequel plays Sammo Hung's main disciple.It is one of his first films and he later proves in the prequel that he can throw down some serious Wing Chun and can also be a major kung fu star like Wu Jing.This movie put Darren Shalahvi's career on the map.Appearing in the Webisode of Mortal Kombat playing Kano and fighting along with Michael Jai White.Darren had more roles in B movies with Steve Austin and Steven Seagal.At least he is out there being recognized instead of being in crappy cameos in Zack Snyder movies like 300 and Watchmen.If you blink you probably missed his cameo appearance.This is one of the best Kung Fu movies in years along with True Legend,Ip Man prequel,Reign of Assassins.Donnie is in talks to do more Ip Man movies so stay tuned.

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A quality film which will propel the excitement for Kung Fu and the health, strength and mind qualities it provides.Donnie and Sammo played their roles well. The choreography was excellent and the martial arts believable. Yes that includes the final table challenge scene. While I can't begin to calculate the probability of one person landing a table, let alone two; I can say I have experienced some magical (ie. Quantum physics assited explanation required) kung fu happenings. And I don't have the training of a master. So who knows what Yip Man experienced. In the end the overall kung fu is very enjoyable. Lotsa ropes, wires and computer animation not necessary.Now this story holds a common theme when white people are involved in Chinese Kung Fu films. The so-called 'sick men of asia'. It was the propaganda that the colonialists sold to scare the Chinese people into submission and get recruits also. And the ditaste for colonial white ways was, while over the top, way palpable. Its clear in this film that the national psychae is still healing from the dehumanizing treatment of 100 years.However, don't let the racism stop you from enjoying a great flick. I don't. As a tall black man with beard and joylocks, upon seeing me most asians go into defense mode and start clutching purses, squaring shoulders and protecting women until the danger of me has passed. This has been going on for decades. I still enjoy martial arts and asian culture. Thankfully not every one buys into the propaganda.Finally if your like me and can't afford or find a good teacher and so you train yourself, this movie provides good techniques. Enjoy. JAH Love

Love it thank you so much

If you love martial and getting or even considering getting this movie means you do, this is definitely the movie for you. The style of fighting is WIng Chung as seen in the movie by the same name and starring Michele Yo. Mr. Ip was a real person and a real passives who only fought if left with no other option or for a good cause. In this movie every one seems to want to give him a good cause, go figure. In the long run he gets beaten up pretty badly but wins over all. It is a great moral story for young children especially if they are into the bullying scene or are the victims of bully's. This movie shows that the little guy can win over the big bully and that he can go on to be successful without becoming a bully himself. If you have a child that is a bully or is being bullied by bigger children this is something that along with some self respect and self defense classes I would recommend that they watch. It is wholesome as far as learning right from wrong and it lets kids know what happens when you are in the wrong.

Great movie, storyline, the acting ,and of course the action scenes..the visuals on bluray make this movie a standout .

I'll start off by admitting that I'm both a huge kung fu movie fan AND a huge Donnie Yen fan, so I may not be the most unbiased person in the world. Having said that, Ip Man 2 is probably the best martial arts movie I've seen since the last Ip Man came out.The action scenes are nothing short of spectacular. Donnie Yen and Sammo Hung demonstrate how they got where they are today. The choreography was extremely well done. The story is fantastic (though it is, at least partially, based on the real life of Ip Man). The acting was quite good for a Kung Fu movie (I would personally say it was just good period). The subtitles were probably the only weak point here - they suffered the same fate as all subtitled movies: strange/random misspellings. Thankfully, there were fairly few of those.The sound and picture quality were excellent, and I didnt have any issues with artifacting (a not uncommon issue on blu-ray releases of Martial Arts mmovies).Definitely recommended, and an absolute must-have if you enjoyed the first one.