Film Review – The Grandmaster

I suppose it’s difficult to review the American cut of “The
Grandmaster,” which is 22 minutes shorter than the Chinese version of
the movie, with scenes fussed with and hand-holding voiceover employed
to guide English-speaking audiences out of the fog of exposition and
atmosphere that’s commonplace to the work of director Wong Kar-wai. The
feature’s been simplified but hardly neutered, preserving lush
cinematography and skilled editing to the effort’s many sequences of
fighting, allowing great appreciation for the technical aspects of “The
Grandmaster” to remain. However, what was once an emotional ride of
human connection and the soulful lift of kung fu is now a streamlined
examination of conflicted man who would go on to train Bruce Lee in the
ways of Wing Chun.
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