The third outing devotes more time to Ip’s relationship with his now ailing wife, Wing-sing (Lynn Hung). The original dramatized the protag’s early life of landed gentry and anti-Japanese resistance in Foshan, Guangzhou the sequel followed his family’s migration to Hong Kong, where he began his teaching career and dusted up British colonialists. With Yen counting this as his last full-blown action performance, it’s also a swan song of sorts. ![]() ![]() ![]() Notwithstanding the legendary star’s absence, this body of work has morphed into a homage to the heyday of Hong Kong chopsocky cinema, reaching back to the influences of Lau Ka-leung’s hardcore style and Lee’s classics (the stunt casting of Mike Tyson here recalls Kareen Abdul-Jabbar turn in “The Game of Death”).
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