i just got done seeing it for the first time a few moments ago and i pretty much agree with what the original poster said.
as ill quote him here and i pretty much totally agree with...
it has some of the best cinematography and "fight-filming" that i've seen in a long time... its nice to actually be able to watch the fight as opposed to seeing nothing but cluttered body parts like in Batman Begins
... and not to mention just about any other mainstream action film with fighting as it's sad that most of the stuff out there edits around the fighters almost to the point you cant really appreciate a good percentage of the fighting in other mainstream films. ;)
so i guess in a way you can sorta sum up stuff like this...
A) Quality Fight Scenes (like you see in Ip Man ;) )
B) Decent Fight Scenes (edit's somewhat quick around people but nothing extreme to the point it totally ruins it. a moderate amount of films fall into this category.)
C) Horrible Fight Scenes (edit's so fast from camera angle to angle that it totally takes you out of the scene and you can't enjoy it. a moderate amount of films fall into this category. i think a perfect example of this is 'some' of the stuff in 2008's 'Quantum of Solace' :( )
the gap between B and C seems to be fairly thin but if properly done, B can be quite a bit more enjoyable than C which usually boils down to keeping the camera angle from changing to rapidly which usually means slowing the camera angle changes JUST A BIT longer than C. but there ain't to many films that fall into category A, sadly :(
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but my only real complaint about the film which ended up dulling it down some for me is that the Subtitles seem to cycle pretty quick at times to the point it's almost impossible to read everything without pausing it etc :( ... but that aside, the film was pretty good and i guess i could read enough to get the basic point across although i am sure i missed some more important stuff from time to time in the film.
but as is... i give it a 7/10. had the subtitles not been a issue like most other films i had seen with subtitles, which i can generally keep up with reading, i would have most likely gave it a 8/10. but overall it was still a enjoyable film and Donnie Yen was solid as the lead actor in the film and as said before the fight scenes where pretty nice as you could clearly see they where a step above your typical Hollywood film as you could actually appreciate the fighting quite a bit unlike some Hollywood films that CUT around a person like lighting (at times) to hide the fact that the fighting would be otherwise horrible had it been anything like we had seen in this film where they don't cut from scene to scene within a faction of a second as it holds the camera angles noticeably longer than usual, which is a good thing, and it was a well made film ;)
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