Ip Man 3 (2015)
Directed by Wilson Yip
When a band of brutal gangsters led by a crooked property developer make a play to take over the city, Master Ip is forced to take a stand.
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…battle with the title character that recalls, in its celebrity sports gimmickry, Bruce Lee's bout with basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in "Game of Death" (1972).
Tyson’s presence is akin to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar showing up in Bruce Lee’s “Game of Death” — less a matter of “Why?” than “Why not?”
There is precedent for this, as Lee fought Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in his last, unfinished film, Game of Death (1972).
In Bruce Lee’s unfinished film “Game of Death,” there is a classic bout between Lee and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
With his elaborate facial tattoo and sparse, half-English, half-Cantonese dialogue, Tyson doesn’t exactly disappear into his small but central role – nor does his presence in 1959 Hong Kong make much sense – but he justifies his distracting presence during an appropriately intense fight with Ip Man that favourably calls to mind the sparring between Bruce Lee and another iconic American athlete, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, in Game of Death.
Both Ip Man’s fight scene with a prominent American sports legend and the film’s most melodramatic plot development conjure up memories of Lee’s “Game of Death”.
Sword of Destiny , the sequel to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), bows on Netflix on Feb. 26, and he’s part of the cast of a little something called Rogue One: A Star Wars Story , which you may be hearing about come Christmas.
That's a lot of fighting, choreographed this time by Yuen Woo-ping, famous for his work on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the Matrix trilogy.
However, that’s not so surprising given the choreographer, Yuen Woo-Ping (the real hero of the movie), is the mind behind the movement in The Matrix , Kill Bill and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon .
Senza Sammo Hung svaniscono i dinamismi esagerati e il ricorso all’oggettistica di Ip Man 2 che lo rendevano eccessivo ma incisivo: con l’eccezione del duello in ascensore, poco delle coreografie di Yuen Wo-ping – sottotono, come già nel disastroso sequel di Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ( La tigre e il dragone ) – sa di inedito e di autentico, le scaramucce tra Ip e le Triadi procedono con il pilota automatico e lo scontro tra Yen e Zhang Jin piace senza stupire.