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Sunday, 15 February 2015

Ip Man 2 (2010)

Ip wants to open a Wing Chun school in HK but meets opposition from the existing masters. Then all goes Rocky, in more than one sense of the word.
The combat that follows is more fantastical than was in the first film, which has the knock-on effect of lessening the impact of his struggle a little. On the plus side, Sammo gets in on the action this time!
Returning characters are wasted and too many others have little or no purpose for being there; Ip's wife and child may as well not exist.
The awful overdubs of English language actors makes it impossible to take them seriously, bringing the entire film down a notch. It's almost as if Yam was attempting to sabotage his own film simply to make them appear even bigger fools. Was he really not aware of how shitty they sounded?

3 foreign devils being assholes out of 5

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