Donnie Yen returns for a second bout of vigorous, crunchy combat in a thoroughly enjoyable beatquel. Set just before the Bruce Lee-mentoring years, Ip Man’s now moved to British-ruled Hong Kong, where bent cops and the local martial-arts mafia sabotage his fledgling Wing Chun school. Midway there’s an astonishing series of winner-stays-on boss battles on a rickety table top, before the film thrusts into a Wing Chun vs. boxing showdown (a flagrant cultural face-off between Chinese decency and Western colonial brashness). Hammy Brit baddies, but what the hell — Yen’s one of the great wonders of the action world and part three can’t come quickly enough.
IP Man 2 Review
Ip Man (Yen) returns to post-war Hong Kong to set up a martial arts school amid sabotage and corruption.
Release Date:
28 Jan 2011
Running Time:
108 minutes
Certificate:
15
Original Title:
IP Man 2
A brilliant sequel full of inspired fight scenes and British bad guys.
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