Particularly potent is a typical family meal treated with intense care, presenting the mundanity that we’ve seen Ip skip time and again as suddenly of paramount importance in the wake of its impending demise. Yip’s meditation on death, particularly the loss of a loved one, provides some breathing room, with warm tones and wide frames favored as Ip and Wing-sing spend their last days together.
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This split focus in action is further complicated as Ip’s wife Cheung Wing-sing (Lynn Hung) contracts terminal cancer, creating a third major plot with precious little connection to the other two.įor the first time in the series though, Ip’s personal arc feels integral to its corresponding film, leading to scenes worthy of Yen and Hung’s chemistry and that are as worthwhile as the action. Meanwhile, the father of one of the school’s students reveals himself as a Wing Chun master in his own right, changes allegiances constantly and eventually challenges Ip for Wing Chun supremacy.
Ostensibly, Ip Man is tasked with saving his son’s school from a gang of bandits operating under orders from Frank, a foreigner played by Mike Tyson. Still, Ip Man 3’s action serves too many masters, couching otherwise great setpieces within a confused mess of a narrative. Those established tendencies bear out once more in Ip Man 3, the apparent final chapter in the series-but when Yuen Woo-ping choreographs for the lightning-fast Donnie Yen, it’s hard to complain about the prioritization of action. In these films, Ip Man is much more than a teacher-he’s a warrior who has, on several occasions, saved China from foreign influence with little more than his fists and an unshakeable calm.
Previous installments have reduced the relationship between Ip and his most famous student, Bruce Lee, to little more than a cursory head-nod, marginalizing the grandmaster’s real life legacy in favor of a melange of superheroic ass-whoopings. Instead these films favor strong martial arts action and introspective melodrama. The most admirable aspect of Wilson Yip’s Ip Man movies is their disinterest in typical biopic aspirations.
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