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* CatharsisFactor: Watching Twister, the unapologetically Asian-hating white-supremacist boxer and murderer of Master Hung Lei-Nan, being ''demolished'' into the garbage that he is by Ip Man, a Chinese Warrior ''half'' his size with Asian Martial Arts is as inspiring as it is satisfying.
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* CatharsisFactor: Watching Twister, the unapologetically Asian-hating white-supremacist boxer and murderer of Master Hung Lei-Nan, being ''demolished'' into the garbage that he is by Ip Man, a Chinese Warrior ''half'' his size with Asian Martial Arts is as inspiring ''inspiring'' as it is satisfying. ''satisfying.''
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* CatharsisFactor: Watching Twister, the unapologetically Asian-hating white-supremacist boxer and murderer of Master Hung Lei-Nan, being ''demolished'' into the garbage that he is by Ip Man, a Chinese Warrior ''half'' his size with Asian Martial Arts is as inspiring as it is satisfying.
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** While the choreography and acting for the fight between Ip and Twister is pretty good, basically turning it into a visual poem on ForceAndFinesse, it is hard not to find goofy how Ip's chained hand strikes look like light taps next to Twister's dynamic boxing punches. It doesn't help that Twister is a mountain of muscle,[[note]]At least compared to the diminutive 125 pound Ip. The actor who played him was actually only 5'10 and around 175 lbs.[[/note]] which makes it hard to believe that his opponent's hits are actually doing damage. This is also TruthInTelevision, as wing chun is often criticized for overspecializing in intrincate strikes with little KO power instead of more practical techniques.
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** Darren Shahlavi does make an impressive antagonist, especially for his chiseled built and all the 50 lbs he has on Donnie Yen, but people with a passing knowledge of boxing (that is, this genre's own target audience) might find it very hard to buy Twister as a boxing champion when his offensive is solely composed of bar brawl-style alternate hooks.
** While the choreography and acting for the fight between Ip and Twister ispretty good, neat, basically turning making it into a visual poem on ForceAndFinesse, it is hard not to find it goofy how Ip's chained hand strikes look feel like light taps next against the mountain of muscle that is Twister, especially compared to Twister's dynamic boxing punches. It doesn't help that Twister is a mountain of muscle,[[note]]At least compared to the diminutive 125 pound Ip. The actor who played him was actually only 5'10 and around 175 lbs.[[/note]] which makes own haymakers, making it hard to believe that his opponent's hits are Ip is actually doing damage. achieving anything with his hands until he starts using them for dirty attacks in the last round. This is also TruthInTelevision, as wing chun is often criticized for overspecializing in intrincate strikes arm punches with little KO power instead of more practical techniques.
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** While the choreography and acting for the fight between Ip and Twister is pretty good, basically turning it into a visual poem on ForceAndFinesse, it is hard not to find goofy how Ip's chained hand strikes look like light taps next to Twister's dynamic boxing punches. It doesn't help that Twister is a mountain of muscle, which makes it hard to believe that his opponent's hits are actually doing damage. This is also TruthInTelevision, as wing chun is often criticized for overspecializing in intrincate strikes with little KO power instead of more practical techniques.
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** While the choreography and acting for the fight between Ip and Twister is pretty good, basically turning it into a visual poem on ForceAndFinesse, it is hard not to find goofy how Ip's chained hand strikes look like light taps next to Twister's dynamic boxing punches. It doesn't help that Twister is a mountain of muscle, muscle,[[note]]At least compared to the diminutive 125 pound Ip. The actor who played him was actually only 5'10 and around 175 lbs.[[/note]] which makes it hard to believe that his opponent's hits are actually doing damage. This is also TruthInTelevision, as wing chun is often criticized for overspecializing in intrincate strikes with little KO power instead of more practical techniques.
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* EvenBetterSequel: ''Ip Man 2'' is considered by many as a step forward from the first one, as it shows much more fleshed out antagonists and more credible challenges to Creator/DonnieYen's character without losing the plot. Even its inevitable {{Anvilicious}} Chinese nationalism, a typical complaint from the first, turns out more optimist and open than the first iteration. While it was slighty less succesful economically, the film got a better critical reception as the first one (improving the first's 84% on Website/RottenTomatoes with a 92%). Donnie Yen himself considered it better as well.
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* EvenBetterSequel: ''Ip Man 2'' is considered by many as a step forward from the first one, ''Film/IpMan'', as it shows much more fleshed out antagonists and more credible challenges to Creator/DonnieYen's character without losing the plot. Even its inevitable {{Anvilicious}} Chinese nationalism, a typical complaint from the first, turns out more optimist and open than the first iteration. While it was slighty less succesful economically, the film got a better critical reception as the first one (improving the first's 84% on Website/RottenTomatoes with a 92%). Donnie Yen himself considered it better as well.
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Master Hung. He's introduced as being a jerkass to Ip Man, and while he TookALevelInKindness, his [[spoiler: fight to the death leads many viewers losing sympathy for him, as he's knowingly allowing himself to be killed just to make a statement, leaving his children fatherless]].
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* TearJerker: Twister brutally beating [[spoiler: Master Hung]] to death.
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* SpiritualLicensee: The film is more or less like a ForeignRemake of ''Film/RockyIV''.
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** Jin's first appearance in the second film can best be summed up as "Jin charges onto the scene, then starts randomly throwing rather sloppy looking kung fu moves at a mob of bad guys standing at least two meters away from him". It comes across as silly more than it does anything else.
** While the choreography and acting for the fight between Ip and Twister is pretty good, basically turning it into a visual poem on ForceAndFinesse, it is hard not to find goofy how Ip's chained hand strikes look like light taps next to Twister's dynamic boxing punches. It doesn't help that Twister is a mountain of muscle, which makes it hard to believe that his opponent's hits are actually doing damage. This is also TruthInTelevision, as wing chun is often criticized for overspecializing in intrincate strikes with little KO power instead of more practical techniques.
** Jin's first appearance in the second film can best be summed up as "Jin charges onto the scene, then starts randomly throwing rather sloppy looking kung fu moves at a mob of bad guys standing at least two meters away from him". It comes across as silly more than it does anything else.
** While the choreography and acting for the fight between Ip and Twister is pretty good, basically turning it into a visual poem on ForceAndFinesse, it is hard not to find goofy how Ip's chained hand strikes look like light taps next to Twister's dynamic boxing punches. It doesn't help that Twister is a mountain of muscle, which makes it hard to believe that his opponent's hits are actually doing damage. This is also TruthInTelevision, as wing chun is often criticized for overspecializing in intrincate strikes with little KO power instead of more practical techniques.
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* MoralEventHorizon: Twister beats [[spoiler: Master Hung]] to death in what is meant to be a exhibition match. Bad as that is, it's not this trope. This trope comes into play in the press conference afterwards. Rather than showing ANY remorse at the press conference held for his innocence, he gleefully mouths off about how he is going to murder '''every''' Chinese warrior in Hong Kong during the next match held to clear his name.
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* EvenBetterSequel: ''Ip Man 2'' is considered by many as a step forward from the first one, as it shows much more fleshed out antagonists and more credible challenges to Creator/DonnieYen's character without losing the plot. Even its inevitable {{Anvilicious}} Chinese nationalism, a typical complaint from the first, turns out more optimist and open than the first iteration. While it was slighty less succesful economically, the film got a better critical reception as the first one (improving the first's 84% on Website/RottenTomatoes with a 92%). Donnie Yen himself considered it better as well.
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