Excellent martial arts biopic on man who trained Bruce Lee.A period piece filmed on obvious but eye-pleasing studio sets with wall-to-wall kung fu and a simplistic, philosophical message.The fanboys and girls won't notice such failings amid the displays of wing chun kung fu--the extras and body doubles do some truly impressive acrobatics--and those with a taste for big historical tearjerkers will be happy as well.If you're looking for great action scenes, you've found them. But if you desire more than eye candy, such as character and plot development and historical accuracy, you'll have to look elsewhere.As an exaggerated, myth-making martial-arts movie, Ip Man is often thrilling.The astonishing fight scenes are some of the most exciting ever filmed in a martial arts movie that raises the bar for the genre. For any martial arts fan, "Ip Man" is mandatory viewing.An explosive exercise in bare-knuckled myth-biography.A dazzling, exhilarating, refreshingly character-driven and thoroughly captivating experience that must be seen on the big screen. It's unlike any martial arts film you've seen before.Not only is it one of the most entertaining and exciting movies out of Hong Kong for many years; Ip Man is a bona fide martial arts classic.A superbly action-oriented kung fu epic.It remains an inexplicable, contextless bit of kung fu historicosploitation -- albeit a very satisfying one.Wilson Yip has crafted a gripping, rousing, beautifully structured yarn, built around a calm but charismatic star performance by Donnie Yen and magnificent action sequences choreographed by the legendary Sammo Hung.Legend trumps fact in Ip Man, a kickass fictionalized biopic of the titular grandmaster of Wing Chun martial arts and mentor to Bruce Lee.I am finally aboard the Donnie Yen train, and Ip Man punched [my] ticket.First-rate martial-arts film about Bruce Lee's real-life teacher."Ip Man" is a truly great film, a masterpiece of the genre, and a true classic of HK cinema.First and foremost, Ip Man is an excuse for Yen to demonstrate his newfound mastery of the Wing Chun style. On that front, the film succeeds brilliantly.The movie is clearly hagiographic, but this aspect and its general function as a martial arts movie are supported greatly by Yen.It's all quite conventional... and nonetheless rousing. Yen, a master martial artist who learned Wing Chun for the role, is a model of martial grace and physical control...