Yuen Woo-Ping's rapid-fire style, plus the acting/physical chops of Michelle Yeoh and Donnie Yen made Wing Chun pretty great overall. It has a plot revolving around comedic/semi-romantic mistaken identities and a group of bandits who don't want to stop attacking a village, and are similarly annoyed that they keep being bested in combat by Yeoh's character.
From there, it's 90 minutes of okayish comedy and plenty of really inventively shot action and impressive stuntwork. Like a good many comedic martial arts movies, I liked the action much more than the comedy, which was maybe lost a bit in translation... but I've also seen more male-dominated action-comedies where the humor feels really uncomfortable as well as not particularly funny, so it's good that Wing Chun didn't fall victim to that.
I'm definitely going to be watching more Yuen Woo-Ping films very soon. The action here is dynamite, and I just want more. It's been a while since I went on a martial arts movie binge, and I think it's time again...
From there, it's 90 minutes of okayish comedy and plenty of really inventively shot action and impressive stuntwork. Like a good many comedic martial arts movies, I liked the action much more than the comedy, which was maybe lost a bit in translation... but I've also seen more male-dominated action-comedies where the humor feels really uncomfortable as well as not particularly funny, so it's good that Wing Chun didn't fall victim to that.
I'm definitely going to be watching more Yuen Woo-Ping films very soon. The action here is dynamite, and I just want more. It's been a while since I went on a martial arts movie binge, and I think it's time again...