review on IP MAN 叶问

In this world, there's no man who will be afraid of their woman, there'll only be man who respect their woman. [这世界上没有怕老婆的男人，只有尊重老婆的男. This is one of the dialogue in the movie IP MAN 叶问 and i thought that its pretty nice, but still i do have friends who are totally afraid in front of their girls.

Anyway this post is not about that matter haha. Its about the movie. I watched in on Christmas Day itself. 25.12.08. Pretty late for such a BIG movie but well its okay at last i watched it! hehe.

Have heard lots of positive comments about this movie since its screening on the big screen. Wanted to watch it but don't have the chance till a few days ago and after watching it, i thought to myself that 2008 is a good year. There's Dark Knight which was the best english movie i've seen this year and then i never expect to see such a good canto movie this year.

If you've been watching canto movies throughout the year you would know that there's not much quality canto movies.

This movie, Ip Man is damn nice. Donnie Yen 甄子丹 was really good in this specific movie. The way he portrayed the legendary kung fu master Yip Man was really awesome. Compared to the past movie he acted which he was really some though guy who will fight all of a sudden without any reason, he's pretty different in this movie. Due to the characteristic of the grandmaster who don't fancy fighting and preferred peace and practice martial arts because of its value and health purposes, Donnie Yen have to be someone like that, and he was not disappointing. At All.

To those who have watch this movie already, i'm pretty sure that you all will remember this scene very clearly when Donnie Yen challenged 10 japanese at once. The way he fight and use his fist, its like we don't even dare to move and blink as we want to concentrate fully on what happen because Donnie Yen was pretty fast.

Other than the actions and fightings in the movie, there's one small little scene which is interesting, i was when Ip Man is fighting, and halfway his son came out and said "Dad, Mom said if you still don't counter attack, there'll be more broken stuffs at home"爸爸，妈妈说你再不出手，家里的东西都要被砸坏了. That was a pretty funny scene. Haha.

A pretty nice movie and know what? I realize that for me, there's one same thing between the best english movie and best chinese movie of the year. Both of them are like One Man Show movie. In Dark Knight, there's joker who overshadowed other characters and in Ip Man, there's Ip Man himself who overshadowed other characters in the movie.

All the fightings was awesome and not disappointing at all and i do think that its TOTALLY worth it watching it in the cinemas.

and i think that everyone should watch this movie especially the Chinese. Though its eons since world war period but to some certain people, this movie really does recall memories during that period where there's extreme hardships.

By the way, most of you do noticed that how pretty was the leading actress in the movie, she's a model in Hong Kong and is the long rumoured girlfriend of Aaron Kwok 郭富城.

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the movie made quite a name and when i was searching for these pictures to post here i found out that actually, 10 years ago, Donnie Yen was approached to act in a same movie like this that talk about the legendary grandmaster Ip Man and due to some problems it was halted. 10 years later, the chance came and Donnie Yen impressed everyone. Well Done.

and yea, many people would know about this already that Ip Man is actually Bruce Lee's mentor at some period of time, before Bruce Lee 李小龙 made a name internationally.

Due to the success of this first film, the second part of this film is set to go already and the filming will start next year. Most probably on the story where Ip Man reached Hong Kong and the meeting between Bruce Lee and him.

The same cast will be in the 2nd part of the movie but on who will be as Bruce Lee, its unknown yet, though that, the director does mention 周杰伦 Jay Chou's name.

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（北京10日讯）中国新浪网报导。反映一代宗师叶问传奇的电影《叶问》，昨日在北京举行了隆重的首映发布会。监制黄百鸣、导演叶伟信以及主演甄子丹、熊黛 林、林家栋、樊少皇、行宇、黄又南和动作导演洪金宝悉数出席。黄百鸣会上宣布要拍《叶问》续集，而叶伟信则表示续集会加入李小龙这个角色，还说周杰伦是他 心目中最合适的人选。

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For those who haven watch this movie, GO WATCH!

My rating on this movie 8.5/10