Yes, there may be some who complain the film as a biopic fudges some historical facts (and one detail the movie leaves out is that Ip himself was in real life a police officer). But just as a boxing style is surrounded by so much folklore and legends, the truest things at the center are the elegance of the style and the concentration of body, mind, and spirit it builds in its practitioner in difficult times. By simply relying and focusing on those elements and stripping away unnecessary stylistic flourishes to distract from them, Ip Man creates a fine, classical entertainment in the martial arts genre.
Bottom line: Pretty close to brilliance.
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