A firm action movie about the master of Wing Chun. The choreographer Sammo Hung, once the director of masterpiece The Prodigal Boy (1981), and the art director should be credited. However, the plot begins to drag on in the middle, fights are too many and turning to blindly patriotic. Ip Man, who fled China in 1949 because of his KMT background, suddenly becomes a national hero during in occupied Hong Kong.