This is a lesson for you gun nuts: never point a loaded gun in someone's face especially if it's Donnie Yen.
Next up for the month is a look at a series of movies
starring Donnie Yen. I have to admit one thing though: I wasn’t a fan of Yen
really until recently. I had seen him in bit roles over the years in movies
like Blade 2, Highlander: Endgame, and Shanghai Knights. Nothing really stood
out to me but I did know he had nice moves. I didn’t really appreciate him
until I saw his overseas work like Flashpoint, Iron Monkey, and the ones I’ll
be talking about today. He has an even bigger reach now that he’s appeared in
the recent Star Wars movie, Rogue One.
The Ip Man trilogy has been released over the last few
years. I’ve seen them all on Netflix undubbed and dubbed. As the titles
suggest, they are about Yip (also called “Ip”) Man. He was a master of the
style, Wing Chun, and trained many students. One of these students was a lad by
the name of Lee Jun-Fan, aka Bruce Lee. It comes back to him in one way or
another, doesn’t it? Anyway, the teacher has been the subject of a lot of
things in Chinese media recently. Not only are there Yen’s movies, but there are a
few other movies about the man out there. So, let me see what these three
movies have to offer.