I totally loved the whole movie; from the first moment to the last you get the best of Wilson Yip's storytelling and usual production values (thanks to the contribution of his team) and of course combined with some of the best MA action (courtesy of Sammo Hung, who has now officially made his comeback as action director) you'll ever find today in Hong Kong.

But most importantly, one particular thing I found so interesting in the movie was the Ip Man portrayal. It made me realize what other martial arts biopics (such as ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA series, FONG SAI YUK movies, and even FEARLESS) totally lacked, faked out, exaggerated on, standardized in, and carried out unjustifiably. Aside the huge irrelevance in the movie to the real events Yip man went through (I now agree that things are so exaggerated throughout the movie), the characterization was outstanding and set out to create real character in a role people know too much about nowadays. Yip Man is rather someone who is the total opposite of usually depicted kung fu masters who has all the typicalities that defines what they are; unstoppable, unbeatable, stern, almost cold in character, helpful and so on. Yip Man's different; he's calm, modest, gently, secretive, unwilling etc and is only driven to act certain ways if forced. It's time to give this kind of portrayal some recognition because no one has done anything like this before.

On top of what was said just now, Donnie's acting ability was too perfect for the portrayal and something of a fresh take on what he can do in front of the camera in general (finally he's done something about it) opposed to what he has done before (posing, acts like himself). I shall now declare that the movie is owned completely by Donnie Yen and that nobody else came close. The remaining cast were a good enough addition though but still not that good enough. Apart from Gordon Lam (who was the only other actor who gave a strong performance and enough dimension to actually care about his character), Hiroyuki Ikeuchi and Lynn Hung whom gave it their all which shows, I thought the rest came off either phony-looking (Louis Fan, Xing Yu, Wong You-Nam) or potentially appreciating but very underused (Simon Yam, Chen Zhi-Hui).

Wilson Yip and Donnie Yen delivers 100% awesomeness and has by far topped all their previous works (I still give FLASH POINT the higher credit when it comes to the action as no movie has topped it yet, not even this movie).