Ye Wen: Zong shi jue xing

Looks like the IP MAN character is still capable of bringing in a few pennies, hence we have THE AWAKENING, a prequel film made on the Chinese mainland. There are no familiar cast members in this one and the story, in which the future hero tackles some local street thugs and gangsters, is absolutely negligible. What this does have going for it are some fairly commendable production values which at least get the scenery semi-convincing for the era, and a great deal of fight scenes which I found more than adequate considering the low budget nature of the production. Not the kind of film to set the world on fire, but it'll do...

I will not recommend pay to watch because its really wasting money. The story is just below average same as other versus gangster stories. The story nothing to phrase on and very predictable from start to end.

A lot of the storyline are very illogical and total nonsense. The acting are poor and worse the main Ip Man cast a young man still in college but the actor is so old with wrinkles! The make-up is so poorly invested and everything is so budgeted.

The directorship is poor, stunt is poor, story is below average, acting poor, effects poor, stunts poor, nothing is good!

I cannot give more than 4/10 because this is one of the worse martial arts movie I had watched in 2021 and 2022! It really brought down the Ip Man series of movies. The quality is like year pre 1997 when HK movie industry trying to make more money (before HK handover) by quantity and neglect quality.

This doesn't feel like Ip Man at all. Not just that, but as far as martial arts movies go it wasn't even enjoyable. The acting was bad, the story was bad, everything about this felt really sub par. I may have enjoyed it as a bad martial arts movie more if it wasn't trying to pass itself off as an Ip Man movie.

Do yourself a favor and don't waste your time on this. The martial arts felt more 80s martial arts than modern day. The acting was rough, I struggled to watch the fights. This is not anywhere close to Donnie Yen quality.

Those responsible for this ignoble movie should at least be fined for defaming the Yip Man legend.

They did not even try to tell something new and even less original: they just patched up a few episodes from the previous fine films with some unbelievable ludicrous evil characters with the gullible heroes they were just dumb enough to conceive.

The story line was boring and definitely not attention catching. The action scenes were really great but apart from that. Boring and totally bad compared to the previous IP MAN movies.