Ip Man: Il Risveglio

I feel like this was a prank that went too far sorta thing. Like they knew it was a joke but after all the work they put into it wanted to see how it would go being a feature film.

The acting was so bad that I feel sorry for the extras having been conned into this obvious train-wreck.

The fight scenes weren't too bad but I feel as though the director kept telling the lead actor to NOT imitate Donnie Yen like they knew they didn't have permission and would be sewed for copyright.

In conclusion, if it were actually possible to sue someone for wasting my time.... I would with this film.

This doesn't feel like Ip Man at all. Not just that, but as far as martial arts movies go it wasn't even enjoyable. The acting was bad, the story was bad, everything about this felt really sub par. I may have enjoyed it as a bad martial arts movie more if it wasn't trying to pass itself off as an Ip Man movie.

Do yourself a favor and don't waste your time on this. The martial arts felt more 80s martial arts than modern day. The acting was rough, I struggled to watch the fights. This is not anywhere close to Donnie Yen quality.

Those responsible for this ignoble movie should at least be fined for defaming the Yip Man legend.

They did not even try to tell something new and even less original: they just patched up a few episodes from the previous fine films with some unbelievable ludicrous evil characters with the gullible heroes they were just dumb enough to conceive.

Looks like the IP MAN character is still capable of bringing in a few pennies, hence we have THE AWAKENING, a prequel film made on the Chinese mainland. There are no familiar cast members in this one and the story, in which the future hero tackles some local street thugs and gangsters, is absolutely negligible. What this does have going for it are some fairly commendable production values which at least get the scenery semi-convincing for the era, and a great deal of fight scenes which I found more than adequate considering the low budget nature of the production. Not the kind of film to set the world on fire, but it'll do...

The story line was boring and definitely not attention catching. The action scenes were really great but apart from that. Boring and totally bad compared to the previous IP MAN movies.