Fierce and Fantastic

Rating: 10/10 (2 February 2011)

Yip Man is a practitioner of Wing Chun and carries himself with great dignity, he spends his days perfecting his art as he beats down challengers with great skill. But then the Japanese arrive during the Sino-Japanese war and Yip Man is forced to become a common labourer, but here he encounters a Japanese general who yearns to fight someone just as great as him, enter Yip Man.
Let me first of all say that every fight scene is incredible, it is beautiful to watch, its elegant and fast, but at the same time is eye boggling and exhilarating. The storyline is perhaps in my view the most powerful part of this movie, it is wonderful interwoven and the fight scenes are simply a bonus.
Donnie Yen is the main talking point, he is utterly spell binding as the legend that is Yip Man, he physically cannot be out best in today's Hong Kong cinema and honestly, put some of the greats to shame as he lays waste to his opponents.
Utterly spellbinding.