... a handsome production and busy film with plenty of activity around a simple plot that stitches together familiar martial arts movie clichs.

| Aug 19, 2023

It is hard to say if “Ip Man 3” is better than the previous entries in the franchise. At the same time, though, it is highly entertaining, while Max Zhang is probably the best co-protagonist Donnie Yen had found so far

| Original Score: 6.5 | Jan 2, 2023

This is an uneven mess - neither the drama nor the action is good enough to warrant a viewing.

| Original Score: C | Jul 13, 2020

Unfortunately this narrative competes with perfunctory plotlines that make for an unfocused film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 9, 2019

Director Wilson Yip, who helmed the first two installments in this series, employs an understated approach to the fight sequences that achieves a welcome degree of realism, which sadly is lacking in the dramatic moments.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 16, 2017

An uneven mix of fancy fist-work and run-of-the-mill plotting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 12, 2016

Anyone with the most glancing interest in action movies, especially martial arts movies, has really no choice but to see it.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 8, 2016

[Yen's] performance is glorious, the actor embodying this martial arts legend with grace, dignity, passion and charisma to burn.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 16, 2016

'Why am I crying at the awesomeness of this fight?' Because it's art. Martial arts produce the same response as that 'Marriage of Figaro' aria in 'The Shawshank Redemption.'

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 5, 2016

This swinging between extreme silliness and the poker-faced hero worship of Ip Man the character makes this more an exercise in pastiche than a movie.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 5, 2016

A respectable action drama that doesn't try to replicate the pleasure of its predecessors, instead admirably turning to contemplate Ip's priorities in life.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 2, 2016

It's kind of a shame that this series feels so determined to stick to the facts of real-life kung fu grandmaster Ip Man (Donnie Yen), because it's a lot more fun when it's a good old-fashioned martial-arts free-for-all.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 19, 2016

It's inevitable that everyone will Wing Chun tonight, and when they do, you actually give a damn what they're fighting for.

| Feb 18, 2016

Pretty much the same plot as The Trial of Billy Jack, but we'll allow it-if Ip Man 4 turns out to be an indirect remake of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, then the jig is up.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 12, 2016

Tyson is onscreen for only a few minutes, but that's long enough for a fists-vs.-feet battle with the title character that recalls, in its celebrity sports gimmickry, Bruce Lee's bout with basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 'Game of Death.'

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 8, 2016

Less offensively nationalistic than the second installment but falling short of the glowing humanity, genial Cantonese humor and visual flair of the first, the pic is somewhat tarnished by its pedestrian plot and limp characterization.

| Jan 29, 2016

Yen is appealing, the story moves right along, and the martial arts sequences are (to my untrained eye) impressive. In short, a good enough conclusion to the Ip Man saga.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 28, 2016

By far, this is the weakest tale of the three Ip Man movies, but the action sequences more than begin to make up for that.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Jan 23, 2016

Though it may not feel as profound as the first two entries, Ip Man 3 is ultimately more watchable and more purely entertaining.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 22, 2016

Built around cheerfully broad emotional deck-stacking, regularly-spaced fight scenes, and charismatic actors, Ip Man 3 delivers its punches with confidence.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 22, 2016