The tensed, poised, striking stance of the Bruce Lee we adored was sloppy and as dangerous as wet brown paper. The voices were different, the kicks were weak. A computer generated Dragon could turn out worse than the bearded stand-ins from 1978's Game of Death.

Will the digital shadow of Bruce Lee's essence put up a good fight? The film is setting itself up to disappoint me. The action in the first two films took the classic kung fu setting and hurled it into the modern world-fights heavy with chi sao and pak sao trapping were crisp, elevated duels more complex than a Rubik's cube and just as cathartic when solved. AI in search of a soul.ĭepends on the action scenes. Lee will be holographic image, a CGI rendering of the man, in an ambitious attempt to realize some of William Gibson's coolest visions: graphic collections of memories and quotes as real as the flesh and blood people they're pretending to be. The third film, scheduled to hit theaters across Asia this coming Christmas (hopefully followed quickly by an opening in the U.S.) shifts to Bruce Lee as an adult and presumably 1960s and 70s Hong Kong. Kung fu in this context is a patriotic endeavor, and destroying huge white boxers and morally bankrupt Japanese in the ring symbols of national strength. The first two movies focused on China's struggle to maintain independence in the face of foreign aggression as the backdrop to Ip Man's development as a martial artist. This should be the last installment of the Ip Man series, which loosely followed the life story of Bruce Lee's first master and the man who brought Wing Chun kung fu to the global audience. The few seconds we see suggest a showdown between the two, and most of the rumors swirling around the production hint at a fantastic fight scene between Donnie and the man known in the Chinese world as 拳王, the King of Boxing. Pegasus Motion Pictures released a teaser trailer for Ip Man 3 last week, featuring a very quick look at Mike Tyson's role as a property developer and street fighter opposite Donnie Yen's Ip Man.

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