Although we also have money problems, a pregnant wife and relationships from the first film, that is pretty much all you need to know. The overall plot sees Ip Man coming to Hong Kong to continue the spread of his teaching but coming up against resistance from other schools in the area and the interference of a corrupt British chief.

Within about 5 or 10 minutes though this really doesn't matter because mostly the film is happy with very basic motivations and plotting, in favour of frequent fight sequences. Otherwise, it is very nice to see Sammo Hung (not for long) and Yuen Biao (throughout the film), old friends of Jackie Chan (when he did the stunts himself).I don't think I have seen the film that this is a sequel to, so early on I was a little lost with the flashback montage in the credit sequence and I felt a little unsure of some of the characters. In the very typical elements of this kind of production, there is a rough or even rough dramaturgy, as well as elements of philosophy associated with kung fu of course, which without being laughable are sometimes a little heavy (and a little ridiculous). The director does not insist on the violence of the fights, but there are some spectacular and really violent in the way they break the furniture, the walls and the surrounding scenery. The choreography incorporates a lot of destruction of set pieces, which gives it some punch. In this film they come at regular intervals and are rather well executed, the main actor being convincing the choreographies are well staged with many long shots and very few close-ups. The quality of this kind of film is linked to the fights and the choreography. The scenario is still the standard pattern with the Japanese villains, with the evil rival school, with the betrayed master, a romantic story thwarted, with the master who is murdered or at least here there is a master who dies alone and then another one who is murdered. Here we have a production with a lot of means for everything that concerns the technical elements: sets, costumes (we can note a very good work on the costumes), makeup and the whole production values. It is likely that the reality is very different from all those films that celebrate his personal art of kung-fu.

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