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Ip Man 2 (2010)
Directed by Wilson Yip
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Overview
Having defeated the best fighters of the Imperial Japanese army in occupied Shanghai, Ip Man and his family settle in post-war Hong Kong. Struggling to make a living, Master Ip opens a kung fu school to bring his celebrated art of Wing Chun to the troubled youth of Hong Kong. His growing reputation soon brings challenges from powerful enemies, including pre-eminent Hung Gar master, Hung Quan.
Rated R | Length 108 minutes
Actors
Donnie Yen | Sammo Hung Kam-Bo | Huang Xiaoming | Lynn Hung | Kent Cheng | Ngo Ka-nin | Simon Yam | Calvin Cheng | Fan Siu-Wong | Dennis To Yue-Hong | Darren Shahlavi | Ashton Chen | Li Ze | Lo Meng | Fung Hak-On | Lam Hak-Ming | Charles Mayer | Brian Burrell | Mei-Fang Lu | Tian Rui | Christian Kang Bachini | Tomer Oz | Stefan Morawietz | Yuan Xinran | Ma Zengqin | Li Huiying | Jiang Daiyan
Viewing History (seen 2 times)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/01/2021 | TV | Streaming | Video on Demand | 7.5 stars |
| 01/16/2016 | TV | Streaming | Video on Demand | 7.5 stars |
| (Average) 7.5 stars |
Viewing Notes
Lo Meng is in this?!?!?! Omg this is ROCKY IV.
Donnie Yen and Sammo Hung are so great here that it makes up for the Nationalistic tone and overly evil British antagonists. Not as a keen on this story as I was for the first movie but I wanted to view this since the third movie arrives next week and I’m hoping to catch that in theater.
I love love love that Lo Meng is in this and that he has a decent supporting role.
Requires some suspension of belief to think that western boxing at that time was at all at a level to compete with higher forms of kung fu like Wing Chun. I’d even have a hard time believing any conventional boxer from today could compete with kung fu masters of that time. I get that this was all done for the drama of this movie but really those guys should clean the floor with a conventional boxer.
Still pretty amazed that this is Rocky IV formula all over again (set 40 years into the past).
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