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uggggggghhhhhhhhh

Suffers from the same issue that I talked about in my log for The Night Comes for Us, where the movie is more interested in the spectacle of action rather than the action itself. This movie sort of gets a pass since its not as egregious but also since its more about the drama and history (which happens to not be very interesting). Ip Man doesn’t lose a single fight and isn’t worried about losing at all, so its hard to be invested

The animation of when they turned on the engine in the shack blew my mind. In combination with the sound design it felt like I was there

Easily one of the best martial arts movie I’ve seen. There’s so many fight scenes and every single one of them does something new so it never gets old. The story isn’t really special, but for 1978 its very passable.

Pretty much a B-movie from the at times incoherent plot to the over used sound effects. But I don’t care because Tony Jaa demonstrates literally every possible combination for kicking and breaking a persons limbs.

I feel like the movie’s only purpose is to conclude a characters story, which is fine, but I think it forgot to be a movie in the process

the action is on par with the first movie (really great) but there’s like at least 20 minutes worth of plot that doesn’t matter and slows things down

I think this is like the 3rd or 4th movie I’ve seen made by Koreans, and I’m getting more concerned about them and if they’re ok

Its absurdly violent and I think that reveals the movies character a lot. I think its more interested in the spectacle of action rather than the action itself. I would rather be presented with a fight scene, and decide how cool it was. Instead I get a fight scene that’s trying its hardest to convince me its super cool.

I feel every East Asian director I watch is a master at telling stories about people falling out of love and this is no exception.

boy, this guy sure is fearful!

boy, this guy sure is violent!

Made me cry