Donnie
Yen reprises his role as the legendary Wing Chun master in the grand finale of
the revolutionary martial arts series. Following the death of his wife, Ip Man
travels to San Francisco to ease tensions between the local kung fu masters and
his star student, Bruce Lee, while searching for a better future for his son.
From the action visionary behind Kill Bill and The Matrix, witness the heroic
sendoff to the saga that inspired a new wave of martial arts movie fans.
The film is truly good. The action is awesome, just like any IP Series fan would expect. Several themes are well put together. But I love how a crucial theme, parenting, has been coined in the movie. The movie proves that parenting is tough and it is difficult to get it right when it comes to guiding your child into adulthood and career and life in general. Many parents focus less on what their kids want but more on what they want them to become. At first, it is usually thought that kids cannot decide what they can become but as time goes by, it gets clearer and clearer that parents want a perfect life, theoretical life for their children. One without the mistakes they made or the challenges they went through themselves. My favourite scene is when Master Ip tears a letter forged by Wan's daughter and actually makes her smile the next minute by asking her what she wants to do, this strengthens the connection between them and even makes Yonah think IP is better than her father when in reality, IP has issues with his own son (Jin) like she has with her father.
I will surely miss the IP MAN series and Donnie Yen as well for portrayed all the films so well.
Christopher Keys
2 months ago
I LOVED THIS MOVIE!!! I have watched and enjoyed the entire Ip Man series several times alone, and now my son has started to enjoy them. They have all been wonderful and inspiring in their own ways. Each has shown a very specific time and place and not only showing this man with his complete and dominating abilities, but also everything he and his people have had to overcome. I know every ethnicity has had their fair share of oppression at some point in history and I really think it is something that should be explained in a way that shows how horrible humans can be but also that if you have faith and discipline whether it's religious, familial, or a martial discipline like Master Ip you can overcome great adversity. This great man trained his mind and body and pulled his family and community, even some from his home land that didn't even want his help through terrible experiences. I don't know about accuracy, but Donnie Yen has done the most amazing job making these films and portraying a man that inspires me with everything he does that seems like his natural day to day. I can't recommend these movies too much to anyone. Watch with your family, significant others, friends and enjoy a series of gut wrenching movies about dealing with bullies and human hatred at it's worst being conquered.
יוחנן בן הרננדז
4 months ago
I belong to the old school generations of Martial Artists. I am 65 Years old, and a great admirer of Grl. Choi Hong Hi, Jong Soo Park, Toshiro Mifune, Bruce Lee, Donnie Yen, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Sammo Hung, Michelle Yeoh, just to name a few. As it happens in most MA films there is this very faint line that separates fiction from reality as many historic facts tend to be idealized. However, this movie, as all the Ip Man series, have taken this concepts to a higher level. I have enjoyed to the utmost Donnie Yen's actuation as well as Scott Adkins performance. True Martial Artists and actors. Superb photography and a coherent plot related to the historical facts that surround the legend of this incredible character.
I
follow modern F1, but I'll admit my history is patchy. I know Juan Manuel
Fangio of course, one of the very best... if not the best, but there's an opportunity to learn much more. However, the bar is set high for documentaries
these days and this doesn't really reach that bar. It's quite formulaic, pretty
dry, certainly in the opening half-hour which is a dull history lesson through
Fangio's initiation into motor racing. Granted I learn he started at a
surprisingly late age by today's standards, being 37 when he first raced in
Europe. It was a different time in motorsport, near impossible to compare
today's drivers to those from Fangio's era and the pacing of A Life of Speed
grinds to a halt as this topic is covered. Today it's marginal gains, fast
reaction speed, different tracks, radically different cars. There was no desire
for comfort in the 50s and little thought to safety. I only mention this as it
sadly seems to be the key point of the film. There are lots of familiar faces,
Stewart, Prost, Häkkien, Rosberg, Alonso, Wolff, coupled with plenty of archive
footage, but it feels as much a history of F1 and motor racing as Fangio
himself and nothing particularly new. Senna's death, the horrific crash at Le
Mans and some archive audio dubbing that sounds slightly suspect. Much is made
of Fangio's achievements, winning 5 championships with 4 different
constructors, but this feels bolted on and really should have been the central
theme. For me that's where this suffers, structurally it's very loose, well-intentioned, but lacking pace and a good story arc. Frankly, I think Fangio
deserves better.
Charismatic
and complex, Sergio Vieira de Mello (Wagner Moura) has spent the majority of
his storied career as a top UN diplomat working in the world's most unstable
regions, deftly navigating deals with presidents, revolutionaries, and war
criminals for the sake of protecting the lives of ordinary people. But just as
he readies himself for a simpler life with the woman he loves (Ana de Armas),
Sergio takes one last assignment - in Baghdad, newly plunged into chaos
following the US invasion. The assignment is meant to be brief, until a bomb
blast causes the walls of the UN headquarters to come literally crashing down
upon him, setting into motion a gripping life-or-death struggle. Inspired by a
true story, SERGIO is a sweeping drama focused on a man pushed to his physical
and emotional limits as he's forced to confront his own divisive choices about
ambition, family, and his capacity to love.Written
by Netflix
It was fast moving with plenty of action coupled with flashbacks to bring credence to the story as it evolved. The acting, staging and story line were realistic, tastefully accomplished and kept a person engrossed throughout. The lead character, Sergio, played by Wagner Moua, was exceptional. I came away with a high regard for the value he placed on man-kinds basic right to life and the moral fortitude with which he conducted his own life. He was a true credit to his chosen profession as a United Nations emissary. It was a fast 2 hours(1:58). Highly recommend this movie/documentary.
Thomas Declan
2 weeks ago
The film shows us that Sergio had an awesome omg so passionate and romantic and like with beaches and rain and just perfect affair with a staffer and THAT'S WHY he was right about Iraq! Take that, nasty Americans! And he created East Timor single-handedly after a hug with just an omg so nice Timorese lady. And he saved, like, THE WORLD, in-between making 50,000 cut out paper hearts with poems on them for his lover! This takes the biopic to new depths of peurile. Bravo.
