What a waste of my time!!!

This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

I watched this recently and had no idea what to expect. It turned out to be a fairly good film with some confusing twists. Not everything made sense to me but I found it entertaining at least. Many events taking place feel forced into importance, meaning very little to me since I don't have any historical perspective on this era. Overall it's worth watching once but wow the ending wasn't what I'd expected.

This is the FIRST Asian martial-arts themed movie I have ever rated this low...and I've seen a lot of bad martial-arts movies."The Final Master" tells a story, albeit poorly, about a Master Wing Chun martial artist who, in order to be able to open his own temple, must defeat eight other Masters. You would think that would be interesting and you would be woefully wrong.Everything in this movie is awful: the acting, the fight scenes, the choreography, the directing, and the stupid (and never-ending) dialogue. It moves at a snail's pace and, although not that long, seems to take an eternity to finish. The choreography for the fight scenes was atrocious. It looked staged, as no movements were fluid (let alone quick). Rated PG-13 for some skin and lots of bloodless violence.

The story about Wing Chun master seems will not come to an end in few years to come. The latest is The Master (The Final Master), bring a fictitious Wing Chun last torchbearer, Chen Shi. Xu Haofeng as the scriptwriter, known also for his thrilling fictional side story of Ip Man, The Grandmaster as well as The Sword Identity, once again come with slow pace progressive plot. Unfortunately, the more complex he try to become, the more this movie stranded from clear point of view. Politic and intrigue surely is a modest and common things happens everyday, but Haofeng fail to deliver a gripping story. More than half part of this movie going encircling, dog chasing tail situations. And almost at the end, the story become unraveled. Which means quite frustrating for average viewer. The story fail to grasp the essence of Tao and Buddhism spirit as the foundation of Chinese martial art world.Haofeng seems lack of confident about Wing Chun and Chinese martial art world. Thus, it affects the fighting choreography throughout the movie. Let us back at the moment when Donnie Yen movie, Wu Xia hit the market. Wu Xia was carefully set. Every detail orchestrated from the very beginning to the end. The fighting scenes was so immensely beautiful.Back to Xu Haofeng film, the northern gong-fu poorly resembled. The secret society just like a kids tale. The using of monstrous blade remind me of Sagara Sanosuke's Zanbato in Rurouni Kenshin manga. I can't recall any blade like that in many gong-fu films. As far as I know, the biggest and the longest blade belong to General Guan Yu. For me, that is merely ridiculous rather than fascinating scenes. Not to mention the blade bearer, at their late age, I can't imagine any old person having such a big energy to hold the blade that nearly 2 m tall. Even using both hand, the blade is just too big.While the entire film illustrated in dark and dingy cinematography as a metaphor of how complicated the situations around Tianjin during revolution era, after the fall of Qing dynasty. I personally think, that dark theme is the most favored among many Wuxia movies, thus it is too generic, and lack of characteristic. The Master was also dubious in term of editing. A bit of fast cutting, and at many scenes feel almost static.

...before i say anything about this fine movie..i like to say something about the first review which is also used by IMDb. Is this guy a communist agent under a false name? Obviously the person has so much hate towards the movie that one can fel the venom. Hahaha..we know you are a communist schmuck trying to undermine a good movie. What was wrong with this movie? you wouldn't know a good movie if it hit you in the face...Morrisstang..hahaha.Obviously you are a state paid stooge trying to undermine a very good movie. Unfortunately...i don't think your efforts are going to hurt this movie...because it was a very good movie.Now about this fine movie...beautifully shot...story was intriguing...actors n actressess were in fine form. Ohhh...the fights scenes were beautifully choreographed..n..for kung fu lovers..there was plenty of fights in this movie.Although its nothing we have not seen in a Chinese kung fu movie, evrybody was in fine form n overall it was a fine watch. Loved that Shaw superstar..Chen Kuan Tai had a nice cameo fight scene in this movie. Morrissatang compared this to old bad Shaw Brothers movies..hahaha..plenty of people are admirers of those movies you schmuck.By the way this is Shaw Brothers multiplied by 100..it was that much better then.you wouldn't know a good movie if you got hit in the face by one. Keep watching the old commie b/w movies portraying fake heroes..hahaha.Thats all i am going to write...people don't let morrisstang influence your decision on a very good movie. its won awards..just not in mainland china...thats all. Watch the movie and make up your own mind. If you are a fan of good kung fu movies n good movies in general...you'll be glad you watched it.