Very disappointing...

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Good that National Arts Films Production beat Ip Man 3 to the punch on the final chapter of Ip Man's saga. When Donnie Yen announced that he would not do another sequel to Ip Man, I thought what a pity. But now when I see Anthony Wong playing the Ip Man's part, maybe someone like him is a better cast for telling the twilight years of Ip Man's story.The movie isn't going to be spectacular as Ip Man or Ip Man 2. You already know it from the cast. But it was good in its own ways because Anthony Wong's portrayal of the master was kind of spot on. Life in Hong Kong wasn't so easy in the '50s or '60s, and being an old man in that environment would have been hard even for a grand master of his caliber. The story integrates both Ip Man and Hong Kong pretty well. If there's a problem with this movie, story didn't flow as smoothly as it could have been, but finding story in Ip Man's old age probably wasn't so easy.I would accept this movie as Ip Man 3. I don't know how good the real Ip Man 3 is going to be, but without Donnie Yen in the starring role, I'm sure it wouldn't have the high tension previous two movies had. As many have commented, this rush to capitalize on the Ip Man's popularity is getting to be passé. This movie was acceptable as the swan song to the saga of Ip Man.

This is another exaggerated movie about Ip Man. This movie may seem more down to earth and realistic with it's direction. But it's boring and fictitious. If they were doing a fictitious movie about Ip Man at least make it entertaining. Although there is no doubt that Ip Man is a wing chun grandmaster. Still his main fame came from being Bruce Lee's master. Instead it tries to make it seem more down to earth and realistic, but will bore the crap out of audiences that want to see a kung-fu movie. They should have titled this, "A Era in Foshan" since it seems to focus on the people of Foshan over Ip Man. It focuses in on the harsh era where there isn't any civil rights and people are dying or being sold because there isn't enough food. This problem is still problem is still probably going on but it was worse back then. Ip Man in the previous movies is portrayed as having cool, charismatic, powerful(almost untouchable), and has calmness with flare attributes. In this it's more experience Ip Man that seems more human and is broken down, but it's just so boring to watch. It's cool to see a character that builds up and has hidden potential. Even with movies where the character doesn't have have hidden potential but works hard to build himself up. Or even a character that gets in touch with the hidden abilities and the environment changes the character. Or even the master showing his skills and crafts. But this movie is just so darn boring and depressing. I think the makers wanted to go in a "The Dark Knight Rises" direction but it falters in every way possible. Donnie Yen is the best Ip Man so far and this is the worst one in this franchise. This is not going to be the last Ip Man movie, but for a movie on his final fight. It doesn't end with a bang but a whimper. This is basically a drama with bunch of characters showing their stories and what they are going through. Which can be fine, but this one seem to lose it's focus on Ip Man. And focus in on irrelevant characters that doesn't even have enough development to even care for. This movie just didn't seem to blend the different genre styles in one movie very well. The camera-work is however good. The subtle and more quite direction could have worked for Ip Man's final fight but this isn't it. It tries to hit that peace and heart area, where it shows the turmoil and hardship and the aftermath but it didn't work. Audiences that want to see a character driven movie or a kung-fu movie will be left disappointed. Not a awful movie and it could have been worse. Oh yeah, also I thought Ip Man's wife in this was his daughter for few minutes.5.5/10

This is just another a fantasy eastern movie. It is very disappointing and even if you give it a try, you will end up with a crappy cheap movie which is pure fiction and uses grandmaster yip man's name and disgraces him. The fighting scenes and the main story reminds of a soap. The techniques are not really WT. WT fights are not supposed to take more time as really needed. Most of the attacks are deadly and so if you don't wear some protecting gear, you will be dead within a minute or severely injured and need medical assistance. Beside that, you cannot see any martial art techniques in this movie which are in any way interesting. The actors have barely skills and that does not include WT in any way. One of the most important technique called 'chain punch' is just not available in this movie. The other Ip Man movies released before include that and are far beyond competition with this movie.

Of all the films in recent years based on Wing Chun Grand Master Ip Man, this one is by far the most authentic. The reason is simple and not just because it is made with the help and full endorsement of his son. There is an even more logical reason. Grand Master Ip made his name in Hong Kong when he started teaching Wing Chun, at middle age. This the exact starting point of this film whereas the others all focus primarily, or even entirely, on the earlier Ip Man, of whom little is known. These other attempts, therefore, freely resort to melodrama for entertainment effect. "Final fight" is an authentic biopic on the second half of the Grand Master's life. On the macro side, this is also a trip of nostalgia for people who lived in Hong Kong in the 50s and 60s. The screenplay was penned by talented Erica Lee, who is also author, columnist, lyricist, singer, radio program host, and a mother of two lovely daughters. Wong Chau-sang's portrayal of Grand Master Ip is brilliantly convincing. Wing Chun style is not hard to replicate on screen but difficult to master in reality. All the actors in these Ip Man films have done a decent job as far as what appears on screen is concerned, and let's leave it at that. Mush more important is to portray the low-profile, unassuming grand master who rises to the occasion every time when needed to. He is also patience, compassionate, tolerant, while unflinchingly uncompromising when it comes to matters of fundamental principles. I cannot think of any actor who could have done this as well as Wong Chau-Sang who is a grandmaster in his own right when it comes to performing arts, be it on stage or on screen. The support cast also well deserves recognition, and the names I mention here will be far fewer than the ones I've omitted. The best is Eric Tsang's, not just a top-notch comedian but also an excellent all-round actor, who plays Ng, the grandmaster of the White Crane style, a rival as well as a mutual admirer. People familiar with Hong Kong's TV entertainment would also enjoy his witty self-referencing to his popular TV show during a scene in which he commiserates with Ip the predicaments behind the glory of being the master of a martial art school. Jordan Chan provides good support in playing Ip's student Tang, who started out as an entry level cop and eventually rising to a "Chinese-ethnic chief detective". The character is modeled after a real-life individual, with the given name slightly changed. There is at least another dozen if I were to name them all. Two that I would like to mention, however, are mere cameos that have the least screen time: Liu Kai-Chi whom many consider Hong Kong's best character actor and Law Koon-Lan who is among Hong Kong's top stage actresses. They play a couple driven by poverty to sell one of their six children. Final remark: this reviewer had the great honour of shaking Grand Master Ip's hand in one of his birthday banquets in the late 60s.