Review of Ip Man: The Final Fight (2013) by Clem666 — 08 Jul 2023

I did enjoy the overall production of the movie, the way it tries to be unconventional, its way to tell the story. Too bad it shows it in such a disjointed manner. The whole movie looks like a collection of semi-linked events that doesn't even gravitate around a plot excepted Ip Man's life. This makes it even more complicated to identify which character takes up which place. This goes in every directions.

Colours are great, some camera angles are truly inspired while fights are very agreeable to watch (excepted the group fights that quickly look chaotic). The pace of the feature is quite bad. Characters are really hard to get in touch with, especially Ip Man (embodied by Anthony Chau-Sang Wong) that very often appears to be emotionless.

I guess it did the job as a biopic movie but it certainly not that entertaining and way too often falls flat.