I started watching the film with caution. It just so happened that I never liked films about martial arts, well, flying on invisible cables and jumping on branches do not attract me in Chinese films.
But I decided to watch the film, which I do not regret at all.
To begin with, the film still contains such hated 'flying on ropes' during battles, BUT WHAT ARE THE FLIGHTS! This is not 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon', this is life! I have never seen such real fighting games in Chinese films. And praise to the creators that in this regard they were not too clever with fantasy. The fights look organic, not prolonged, and somehow for real or something.
Secondly Donnie Yen. Good! I played great. When he first appeared on the screen, I thought what a sedate and smart hero. Then I still did not understand that it was Ip Man. Conclusion - played 100%, showed the whole essence of a person who lives by martial arts, all his degree, all the influence of martial arts on the worldview and behavior of the hero, and his inner world.
In general, the film itself is not so much an action movie as a drama of one character. Here you have a family problem, because the hero is engaged in martial arts, and devotes little time to his family (common problems, an ordinary workaholic, but in a different, more interesting perspective), here is the formation of a person as a person in extreme conditions.