The Grandmaster

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Current Release: Yes

The story of Ip Man has been told countless times. Wong Kar Wai's take on it naturally tries to force it into being a forbidden love story, which does the film no favours, the structure is too slow for it to really be an action film,  and the love story is too thin to really work in amongst all the plot that has to set up the action.

I don't know what they did in the DI, but man the image looked really terrible on the big screen. Some crazy noise reduction or compression or something strange going on. I didn't like the look of the film at all, which is usually one of the big draws for his films.

I really didn't get anything out of this.