![]() ![]() The opening has Ip getting a visit from a young upstart, who howls like a banshee as he kicks cigarettes and even water. ![]() Still, “3” can’t refrain from couldn’t-resist nudge-nudging. His camera gracefully follows movement and his editing doesn’t simply cut on blows, even if it sometimes has to work around its star’s age (51). ![]() That’s fine, especially given Yen’s regal-charming turn, and especially since Yip creates OTT action set pieces that are kinetic without succumbing to visual whiplash. The third includes his wife (Lynn Hung) slowly decaying from cancer, but everything else is either a light fib or an outright invention. That never happened, nor did the events of the 2010 sequel, which essentially remade “Rocky IV,” minus an ending where our hero solves the Cold War. The first, from 2008, found Donnie Yen’s Ip suffering during the Second Sino-Japanese War. RELATED: “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is about our love of “Star Wars”
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