His fights are a mixed bag as his first encounter with Ip Man is so silly in execution, I couldn’t take him seriously as the film’s fight choreographer.
#Yip man 2 final fight movie#
Speaking of Samo, his conveniently named character Hung, is a new additional to the bloated character roster this movie throws at us. It’s a shame because what Samo Hung managed to accomplish in the first film feels like he wasn’t even involved in this one. Not all the choreography is like this but when it happens, it sticks out so much that you can’t help but feel slighted. Sadly, you can see some very obvious wire work in this movie from wooden crates spinning mid-air, to kung fu masters floating as they jump from chair to chair. While the first movie was pretty grounded in realism with only a few glaring instances of wire-fu, it never strayed into the realm of fantastical. Friendships are formed and then drastically cut short when the true villains, the racist western devils appear and basically give Ip Man a reason to beat someone up for the honor of his country.Īs a martial arts enthusiast, I was very disappointed with the fights in this film. Here we see he’s in a similar role as the antagonist of the first film and Ip Man shows that wing chun definitely has its place among the other practices. A small brawl breaks out where he saves one of his students from the other school’s disciples and he eventually fights against other local masters in order to prove his worth. Um ok…Īs I touched on before, Ip Man has opened his own martial arts school and begins taking on students, but he must fall in line with the local martial arts association’s rules and guidelines in order to do so. In a baffling odd inclusion, they decided to add a story element where Simon Yam’s character gets shot in the back of the head while they were fleeing the Japanese and now he’s mentally disabled. Ip Man 2 begins with his family now relocated to Hong Kong after the events of the first film. SPOILERS…………….once Samo Hung’s character dies in the ring and Ip Man decides to fight the foreign boxer who killed him, you really do start to raise an eyebrow at the similarities. Sure Rocky isn’t struggling to open a boxing school and later has to fight Apollo Creed in order to be accepted into the local boxing organization but………. Unfortunately for anyone who has seen Rocky 4 and goes into Ip Man 2 you can’t help but think they’re just a little too similar. Was this perhaps a bad omen?Īfter the movie finished and the credits started rolling, I remember the guy who was sitting next to me, leaned over to his friend, and asked, “…so that was Rocky 4 right…?” They spoke very briefly about the film before leaving and I remember being kind of disappointed but understood that yes, it is a LONG flight to get here. When the actors finally came out, they expressed that they had just flown in from an extremely long flight and were very exhausted. Samo Hung and Simon Yam were going to be doing an introduction so I was extremely excited to hear them speak. I remember going to see Ip Man 2 at the New York Asian Film festival when it was the opening night film.