Sadly Over-hyped

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

I'll freely admit I'm not a lover of martial arts movies, so this movie isn't geared towards me. But with a protagonist this bad, it lost all chance of enjoyment. I've never seen a character waste so many dramatic turn-arounds in my life.While many parts of the movie are beautiful and visually attractive, the movie spends so long focusing on the plot that it really should have spent some time developing likable characters and an interesting plot. The main story ends about 75% of the way through, and then it just kind of dribbles on. And the ending ... it makes less sense than the rest of the movie.Never. Again.

They tried to make an epic saga with some fantasy legend like story in the beginning, then somehow changed the mind and added some tragedy and at the and the mixture of Ipman, Tai chi master, Tom yum goong, ghulam(Hindi). The ending is so horrible and funny, you will wish some quick ending and some real beating up of the hero. This is those kind of movies where they try very hard to provoke some emotion out of you and harder they try, more comical it becomes. Very poor acting. Fight scenes could have been way better if there were some good budget. The graphical scenes are poorly done.Watch it if you have nothing else to do and you truly love the Chinese action movies, but set your expectation very very low, really low.Even rating 5 seems too high for me. Still...

For some time now, since the idea of Drunken boxing came to fruition, it has been widely disregarded as a martial art. But after seeing this film, I came to understand that Drunken Boxing has its place among the ideals between the masters. Su Can (Man Cheuk Cheiu) an ex general who led many countless battles to victory dreams of settling down with his son and his wife. But through sheer happenstance, his adopted brother takes his revenge on Su's father for killing his own father in previous years before. Now with a new battle ahead, Su must save his son from the clutches of his step brother Yuan Ying (Xun Zhou). Except his step brother has mastered a martial art called the five venom fist. A technique that uses poison in battle. All seemed lost until he comes across in exile with his wife two beings called the god of Wushu (Jay Chou) to learn even further and hone his martial skills. And an old sage drunk (Gordon Liu) who I thought was a great addition to the team. Although I wanted to see more of Gordon, the story however revolves around Su's well being and state of mind. During his exile and his retraining with the gods, his wife has seen that he might be losing his mind. She has seen that he trains by himself and makes the wounds to look like he has taken on the gods. She leaves to find their son, and in so doing Su finally takes his revenge on his step brother after his wife writes him a letter on her voyage. Now with a new resolve, he finds and fights Yuan and defeats him, but all for nothing since Yuan buried his wife in a box. Now with her death even after finding her, he loses all hope and falls again to the wine. With his son beside him they come across a deadly battle for which men get killed. Now an old friend named Ma Quing Feng (Xiaodong Guo) must fight for his life and attain fame to call himself the best Wushu martial artist. But to battle wrestlers is another thing altogether. Now with a mean spirited team Captain (The Late David Carradine) Ma faces his toughest challenge. But as he sees his defeat in the midst, Su comes to the rescue with his patented Drunken Style which vanquishes the enemy team. A great and Wonderful display of martial arts since Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. Or Ip man. Michell Yeoh is as always, such an attractive addition to any film that graces the silver screen. Her abilities of acting is next to none, but sad to see her as only a doctor. I would have loved to see her in action once again. But I guess it wasn't in the cards this time around. All in all, a great film, excellent music, and beautiful styles of fighting I have ever seen for some time. Yuen Wo Ping really delivers. A must see.

I am very much disappointed in the movie. It started off with so much promise then got progressively worse until the end where it felt like I was watching a totally different movie.The movie can be divided into 3 parts. The 1st part is rather good, it reminded me of the 70-80s style martial art movies. The fighting was good although the bad guy seemed over done.It started going bad for me in the middle part where our hero is training to fight the bad guy again. HORRIBLE CG work, I mean really bad. Also repetitive and add to that not very good martial arts. It also left me confused as to ...is it real or only in his head. The main plot line is concluded in the middle section. Baddie dies but a phyricc victory as hero's wife dies as well. Hero becomes a drunk which brings us to...Part 3. I guess this is where it shows him as the mythical drunken beggar. Problem is it just shows him as a weak pathetic drunk until he has to fight the whitemen ala FEARLESS style. Basically the movie looked like it jumped very far ahead in time. The "feel" and the look of the movie totally changed. It went from old time china to suddenly westerners walking around everywhere and participating in fights. The fight scenes were long and formulaic, westerners ganging up and cheating etc. The guy gets drunk and throws out some break dancing moves.For me the movie was too disjointed, add very bad CG and fights and I have to say give this a miss. Watch fearless instead or one of the drunken master movies.