The Chu Forums

So after being relatively impressed by the first 2 Ip Man movies, i had decent expectations for the third installment of the Ip Man series. The 3rd one is actually a prequel to the other two where it highlights a younger Ip Man and his development in his Wing Chun skills.

Anyways, to sum it up, i was thoroughly disappointed. This movie recycled the SAME actors in the first and second movie with DIFFERENT characters. Ip Man's brother in the 3rd movie, was the same guy who played a weird mandarin speaking antagonist in the 1st movie. Samo Hung who was an opposing Kung Fu master in the 2nd movie (and died btw), was a different Kung Fu master in the 3rd movie teaching Wing Chun, AND he dies again in the 3rd. The new Ip Man actor sucked compared to Donny Yen as well.

If you watch the first 2 Ip Man movies, then i recommend leaving it at that. Don't bother with the 3rd movie.

haha that's awesome. the same actors but different characters. someone was on a tight budget...

They do that a lot in HK movies. They have a shortage of quality actors.

When Daffy watches her HK dramas on TV, I always see the exact same actors, so I thought it was like a really long running series... but it's actually the same actors in each and every drama series. Pretty confusing.

Donnie is in every other HK movie that's out right now, even in a comedy as a make up artist, he has put makeup on with kung fu.

I'm pretty sure i can beat up donny yen

never really liked his movies all that much.. ip man was ok at best, that fist of legends (or whatever) was boring.