And he does so once more again here in the fourth movie. And those alone make it well-worth taking the time to sit down to watch this movie.ĭonnie Yen returns to don the mantle of Ip Man, which he has done quite well in the previous movies.
I will say that "Ip Man 4: The Finale" has some of the most hard-pounding and brutal of fight scenes in the entire franchise. The continuation of the storyline is good, and I will say that the movie definitely is entertaining, and it has a good amount of mixture of genres, ranging from drama to action - of course, with a heavy focus on the latter, naturally. The 2019 addition to the "Ip Man" franchise is definitely well-worth taking the time to sit down and watch, especially if you have seen the previous movies that also had Donnie Yen in the role as Master Ip Man. Reviewed by paul_haakonsen 7 / 10 A rather marvelous way to round up the Ip Man legacy. The cancer angle has Ip Man regaining the attention and love of his estranged son Ching (He Ye), but for all that, we never do learn whether or not the youth ever returned to America with his father. It makes you wonder how he could have had the stamina to endure the physicality of his sport. I don't believe that ever came up in the earlier movies, and just shocked the heck out of me. The biggest eye opener for this viewer was that for all his expertise in martial arts and as a role model for fitness buffs, Master Ip apparently was a heavy smoker, diagnosed with cancer early in the story. Given that circumstance, one would think the character of Lee would have held more prominence in the story, but he shows up a couple of times and leaves unheralded before the film is over. Lee is portrayed by Danny Kwok-Kwan Chan, in a returning role from "Ip Man 3". The backdrop to Master Ip's mission involves the local grand masters upset with his former student Bruce Lee, who has earned their ire by training Americans and writing an instructional book on Wing Chun in English.
There are some to be sure, but they don't have the same intensity as the first two films. Martial arts fighting action seems to take a decided back seat in this story as well. In "Ip Man 2", he had to placate and pay tribute to a local gang lord before being allowed to open his own training school.
As in the second installment of the series, Ip Man (Donnie Yen) must satisfy the martial arts masters of this new jurisdiction in order to get his son enrolled in an American school. What should have felt like a new chapter in the Ip Man legacy by having him come to America, turned into a treatment of racism against Chinese citizens in San Francisco where the main story takes place. Reviewed by classicsoncall 7 / 10 "In the face of injustice, I must stand up and fight."įor the fourth and final film in the series of Ip Man movies, this one had an anti-climactic feel to it.
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