With the success of the "Ip Man" films, it was perhaps only a matter of time before wily Hong Kong producers figured out a way to capitalize on the newly popular character. We have our first official entry in the knock-off category with Herman Yau's "The Legend is Born - Ip Man". Despite having some of the same cast and crew as the "Ip Man" movies with Donnie Yen, The Legend is Born lives up (or, rather, down) to the lineage of cinematic clones and comes off like a pale shadow of the films that inspired it.