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83An energetic, witty and altogether well-built martial arts drama that is familiar in many ways but distinguished by its high level of craft, its sincere sentiment and drama, and the forceful charisma of its star, Donnie Yen.
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80Choreographed by the film martial-arts veteran Sammo Hung, the fights are spectacularly designed and performed, relying more on muscle and skill than wirework.
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75A reminder of the pleasure of classic martial-arts films in which skilled athletes performed many of their own stunts.
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70Nearly as enjoyable as the original. Its not-so-secret weapon is the poised, calm performance of Yen, who somehow manages to play Ip as both character and archetype.
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Jan 27, 201170More slick mainland melodrama than rough-and-ready chop-socky picture, Ip Man 2 often finds itself struggling to reconcile those conflicting impulses between drizzly emotional moments and slap-happy frenzy.
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70A redundant if nonetheless occasionally thrilling follow-up bolstered by star Donnie Yen's precision combat skills.
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Jan 22, 201170Compared to his stellar hit "Ip Man" - a biopic on the Wing Chun master who tutored Bruce Lee - Wilson Yip's more lavishly produced sequel Ip Man 2 is a fistful of hits and misses.
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70A superbly well-crafted film, faithful to its cultural and cinematic heritage, and easily one of the most enjoyable entertainments of a still nascent 2011 post-holiday season.
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67If you're searching for pure, unadulterated fisticuffs joy, you could do far worse than Ip Man 2.
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63The piéce de résistance is a "Rocky"-ish battle between bare-fisted Ip (Donnie Yen) and a racist Brit who uses boxing gloves and goes by the name Twister.
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60With action this strong, the script just needs to be serviceable - and that's exactly what it is.
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Jan 25, 201160Yip's chop-socky sequel does manage to up the (admittedly modest) ante of the original.
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50If the movie packs a weaker punch than the original, it has less to do with the action sequences than the script (by Edmond Wong, son of Raymond, who wrote the first), a flimsy affair with subpar villains.