Monday, August 2, 2010

REVIEW: Ip man 2

Ip man 2 is a semi-biographical martial arts movie that is released on April 29th 2010. This movie is the continual of the previous series that is “Ip man. In beginning of the movie, it was shown that Ip man survived and escaped to Hong Kong after the Japanese invaded Fo Shan – China. Ip man has lost his wealth, respect, and everything he had once in China. In this movie Ip man lived poorly on the roof of a citizen of Hong Kong that knew he was a Kung Fu Master. He tried to open a Kung Fu school to get more money. Then, he succeeded and got a number of students. However he was challenged by Master Hung that is the ruler of the particular area. Ip man needs the approval of Master Hung by challenging every Kung Fu Master that existed in Hong Kong. He duel a number of Master and won, but he ended up by a Draw in the middle of the duel against Master Hung. Master Hung was a Businessman who opened an international ring for people in the other side of the continent to have a boxing tournament in Hong Kong. However, Twister that was invited wasn’t much excited with Hong Kong’s Kung Fu and Challenged Master Hung to a duel due to the accident that he makes in the ring during the tournament was running. Master Hung accepted the challenged and lost his life due to several Exploding punches that The Twister Delivered. Ip man was depressed due to one of his most respectful man has died. Then, Ip man challenged The Twister to a duel. The Twister accepted arrogantly and he had the confident that he will win the match. Ip man trained himself weeks by weeks, and showed up in the ring to challenge the twister, and he won. He claimed the American audience that this duel wasn’t about to compare which one is strong, Kung Fu or Boxing, he wished that this duel will open the americans’ eyes that they must respect Chinese martial arts and other country’s martial arts. This movie was adapted to The legendary Wing Chun Master Ip Man once in 1950.