After Ip Man 2, Donnie Yen has said that he was unwilling to continue the appearance in the third series. Yen for both series was perfect, and it would be nice to stop in when you're at the summit after successfully making a good impression for the audience. But that was not the reason, the idea of the difference between himself and the film maker made the third series of the legendary Wing Chun master is then dormant until five years later Yen and director Wilson Yip decided to once again make the Ip Man series for the last time.
The initial concept Ip Man 3 is actually centered on one of the historic moment in the life of Ip Man, when he trained his students who later became one of the world's legend of kung-fu, Bruce Lee. But then the script in Destroy, Bruce Lee played the character of Danny Chan only appeared as a complementary figures who do not have an important role in the story. While the main plot taking set in Hong Kong when Ip Man live a calm life which is then disturbed by a foreign businessman, Frank (Mike Tyson), which justifies any means to get the building happened to go to school where children Ip Man. Frank is not a problem but the only problem, there rikshaw puller, Cheung Tin-chi (Zhang Jin) who is obsessed to beat Ip Man to bear the title of Grandmaster of Wing Chun.
If the two first movie had a theme of nationalism that is slightly heavier, instalemen pemungkasnya trying to appear more low profile. No more Japanese colonial or anti-western sentiment, instead of Ip Man undergoing old days of calm, only a forced confrontation with Frank and his men. Yes, changing ideas about the relation of teachers and students that should be much more attractive to the heroic efforts of the school keep clear greedy businessman seizure is a massive downgrade.
The first half of Ip Man 3 is an incredible mess. The narrative is poor and inconsistent which is then compounded with a lot of fight scenes keroyokan were not memorable and boring. Indeed Ip Man 3 has a figure selling like Mike Tyson who could steal the attention since the trailer was released, but the 'neck concrete' disappointing as expected. Tyson could barely acting, the dialogue is silly, awkward movements as stiff as old teak wood, is exacerbated by a script that does not give him enough background, motive was greed so cliché. Lucky moment only one opponent at the end of the first half is not bad, at least Tyson is able to provide entertainment with fierce resistance fists fast and strong that made the master wing chun overwhelmed.
After the first round is too cheesy, the narrative slowly then began to improve. Kisahnyakembali interesting when Edmond Wong as writers throw away the plot Frank is not important and focus everything back to the personal side of the legend who had to face a big dilemma in his life. There Wing Sing (Lynn Xiong), his loyal wife who was diagnosed with terminal cancer that forced Ip Man is not only faced with a choice between family and a big name as a grandmaster, but also reflection of his life so far. While in other places there Cheung Tin-chi ambitious to quickly build its popularity as a martial tough with one goal, to challenge Ip Man to the title of the best.
Yes, half of the two is better. The plot becomes fuller and emotionally when it involves themes that setimentil porn disease. Do not stop there, choreography of Yuen Wo-ping who replaced Sammo Hung also helped to be more bite although now noticeably more quiet and away from the frenetic crowd to assert his personal impression. Take a look at Ip Man duel against fighters from Thailand in a cramped elevator up to the boss fight against Cheung Tin-chi who had the exact same moves. Character Cheung Tin-chi, played by Zhang Jin clearly is a fighter tough, you might've seen in The Grandmaster and SPL 2: A Time For Consequences, the problem is somehow hard to have any sympathy for his character, but the script has been given sufficient motive to make her sympathetic anti-hero with his efforts to achieve his goal to be the best.
While Donnie Yen is clearly still be the main appeal of this franchise. Ip Man Donnie Yen is the same as his iconic Jet Lie inseparable from the character of Wong Fei-Hung in the series Kung-Fu Master aka Once Upon a Time in China. By the age of 51 years stepped obviously a challenge for Yen to perform action scenes although we still see all the charisma, speed and toughness even with a thinner body in order to bring the character of Ip Man 60s were more convincing. It is said that Ip Man 3 is also the last role in the film Donnie Yen martial.