Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

suite92 I saw Michelle Yeoh first in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), next in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), then in Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) before I saw her in the film under review, Wing Chun (1994).In the first three films, hers was a strong, polished presence, showing an accomplished actor capable of nuance as well as swift direct action. The 1997 and 2000 films showed her physical prowess as well, but by the 2005 film, her acting alone was impressive.Wing Chun was a bit of a pleasant surprise. The screenplay, the direction, and the production values clearly did not make full use Yeoh's abilities. On the other hand, it was funny, sweet, and moved along to a pleasant conclusion. The screenplay and the other actors were just good enough to carry the film to the next part where Yeoh was present.Wing Chun the character was a woman who had moved away from her early home to study kung fu in seclusion. Later in life, she was fine with helping protect from bandits the town where Aunty Fong did business. She expected to live out her life with her dignity, but not have a husband.Life changed for her when her childhood sweetheart Pok To rolled into town; she recognized him, but he did not recognize her, which started a sequence of misadventures.The leader of the bandits (Flying Chimpanzee) gets discouraged with being thwarted by Wing Chun, and decided to make a cause of her. This involved lots of choreographed kung fu fighting, fighting with weapons, fighting on horseback, and so on.The fighting and the romantic entanglements resolve in ways that were happy for almost everyone.----Scores----Cinematography: 9/10 Very good in most of the film.Sound: 8/10 Fine, except for the over the top Foley for the fighting sequences.Acting: 8/10 The main players were fine, but many of the supporting cast not as much.Screenplay: 8/10 This is the best comedy I've seen in many years.

vrlphoto I absolutely love this movie and have watched it more than once already! It is so fun and it has that slapstick humor style partnered with action sequences. Donnie Yen is fantastic as always and so charmingly adorable in this movie. Michelle Yeoh does a great job of convincing you she really knows Wing Chun and utilizes her dancing abilities to bring that to life. I absolutely love the characters, that is what really makes this movie shine apart from the action. Character development. The characters are so likable, I love the Aunt she is hilarious actually even the bad guys are likable! The action scenes are really well done and the slapstick element makes them both fun and funny. It's such a unique combination of action/martial arts, humor and romantic comedy I don't see how this movie does not have higher ratings! This has become one of my favorite movies!

divemaster13 I rented "Wing Chun" on VHS several years ago, after watching "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." I was impressed with Michelle Yeoh and the whole wuxia/martial arts fantasy genre. I'm glad I did because this is one of my favorites.In addition to Michelle Yeoh (who plays the Wing Chun character), the movie stars Donnie Yen ("Iron Monkey"; "Hero") as well as Waise Lee, Norman Chu, King-Tan Yuen, and Catherine Hung Yan. Pei-pei Chang has a cameo.The story is light and comic. Much of the plot will seem familiar to those who have seen a number of Shakespearian comedies--girl dressed as guy, mistaken identities, love triangles, suiters sneaking in and out of bedrooms just in the nick of time, plays on words, sexual innuendo, etc. You've even got a den of thieves with comically bumbling ne'er-do-wells.The "plot" as it were is an excuse to hold the story together for the fight scenes. The martial arts in the movie are not brutal death-matches, but of the spin-through-the-air, prop-using, wonderfully choreographed, skilled ballets that are indicative of the film's action choreographer Woo-ping Yuen (who also choreographed "The Matrix," "Crouching Tiger," "Kill Bill," and many more). Donnie Yen contributed a lot to the choreogrpahy and action directing also.And what great fight scenes they are! There are at least 8 or 9, so you certainly get your money's worth. They are so much fun to watch. Michelle is simply wonderful, especially in the last third of the movie when she stops dressing in men's clothes and goes into cute and perky mode.Perhaps the most famous scene from the film is one where one of the local bandits has come to challenge Wing Chun in her place of business (a tofu store). No problem, says Wing Chun. All you have to do is smash this pan of tofu sitting on the table and you will be the winner.How hard could that be, right? Well, it's damn nigh impossible when what prevents you from putting your fist into a plate of tofu is Michelle Yeoh and all her skills. An amazingly choreographed scene that brings big smiles all around. Michelle's facial expressions are priceless as she goads the hapless bandit into just "one more try" before slamming him back to the ground yet again.Anyone remotely interested in martial arts romantic comedies should rush to pick this film up.

Bulimia Nervosa Yuen Woo Ping, the choreographer for The Matrix, brilliantly directs this piece starring martial arts delight Michelle Yeoh. The story is classically clever with Yeoh in the role of butched-up Yim Wing Chun, the woman who was famous for the Wing Chun style of Kung Fu, taught by her Buddhist Nun, Ng Mui. The movie is very sensitive to feminist issues and is a very smart commentary on the like. The action scenes are sweeeet! Michelle Yeoh is very fast and very sharp in her movements against the big hoodlum who keeps insisting she's getting a whiff of his "Chi". Great movie! Great fighting!