Okay, to be honest, I was confused through most of the film. The sudden pause of the sequences and the text "break" were tiring and a little all over the place. And the ending... you will think that it's going to end, but then another sequence appears and another and another. It's like the film makers didn't want to let go. The film is based on real events, though the kung fu fights were so beautiful, they seemed like they were taken from the lovely Chinese war fantasies, with the long swords and the kings, not to mention the air fighting scenes. The way the kung fu move interacted with the natural elements was magical and of course the rain fighting scene was excellent, in my opinion, the best of the whole movie. You can feel the values of the kung fu throughout the movie, with the "schools" of the art and the loyalty towards the master. I think that that was the one thing the movie wanted to come through the audience, and if so, then they succeeded beautifully. The performances, lastly, were nice, though the costumes could have been better. So, 4 out of 10.

Wong Kar Wai usually make really great movies, typically some very offbeat dramas that sink into your conscious and then sticks with you. And while there are some great moments here and there in "The Grandmaster" (aka "Yi dai zong shi"), then the movie was nowhere near the usual complex and unique movies that Wong Kar Wai has previously directed.The story that Wong Kar Wai sets out to tell in "The Grandmaster" is about legendary Kung Fu master Ip Man, the man who trained Bruce Lee in the martial arts.If you expect a grand martial arts movie, then you will be sorely disappointed. "The Grandmaster" is sort of a very pointless mixture of martial arts and drama, that ultimately failed to deliver on both accounts. The martial arts sequences were visually impressive, but they didn't really help the movie's storyline to progress. And the drama was just too long-dragged and became too much and somewhat of a hindrance to the movie. And in overall, the movie is just kept in too dark hues and tones.What made this movie semi-watchable was a great performance by Tony Leung, one of the better actors of the Hong Kong cinema. Oddly enough, then it was as if Ziyi Zhang didn't fully put everything she had into her performance in this movie.Wong Kar Wai sets out to accomplish something grand with this movie, but swung and missed far, unfortunately. "The Grandmaster" is not really a memorable moment in Chinese cinema. And there are far better and more enjoyable movies about Ip Man available.

No display of Great Wing Chun Style Kung Fu.Poor Dirction,Poor Story,Poor Kung Fu and not even one appreciable fight scene.Too Boring.It was unbearable to watch.No grip in the movie.Poor presentation of Ip Man and Wing Chun. It is not even a fraction of Donnie yen's Ip man.The movie is more based on Master Gong Er.but not on Ip man life.the movie not fulling the expectation of Ip man title.it is other man's story in the name of ip man. Donnie yen ip man 1 and and 2 are the best movie on ip man so far.ip man is a subject were a movie can be made a classic but this one turned down to be a disappointment taking a superstars in movie does not makes a movie great unless it is made great.

I can see why some people might not like "The Grandmaster". Martial artists who want an accurate biopic of Ip Man will be as disappointed by this as by the earlier film "Ip Man"; on the other hand, such a film would probably be deadly boring to anyone else. On the other hand, people wanting a straightforward kung fu flick will also be disappointed. This is a kung fu art film, and as such, it excels. Every shot is a picture, and the film should be watched accordingly. If you don't like the kind of film where the camera pans away from a fight to zoom in on some raindrops, don't watch it.The story is a little confusing, not least because it is as much about Gong Er as Ip Man - in fact it should have been called "The Grandmasters" (a title Wong Kar-Wai briefly considered). The understated flirtation between the two of them is a rather thin device to keep the two story-lines together and the main reason I'm not giving this film a ten. Having a real person fall in love with a fictional character just seems pointless. The other thing I knocked off a point for is that the stories of the other masters - Ma San and The Razor - seem to have been mostly left on the cutting room floor. Ma Sen thus comes across as a cardboard "bad student" and The Razor seems superfluous.From a martial arts point of view, it's fun watching the different styles and the disputes between them. Again, nothing actually happened like it did in the film, and the fights are stylised representations of what a fight between masters of different styles would look like, but the moves are recognisable as Wing Chun, Hong Gar, Bagua and so forth. Zhang Ziyi studied a lot of Bagua while preparing for the film, and it shows. A martial arts (or even a martial arts film) background is not necessary to enjoy the film, though; the cinematography alone carries it.