Somehow, I felt the film did seem like a walk on the nostalgic path, with choreography being very much like the old Shaw Bros films in treatment, with its fair share of blood splashes and violence that reminisces how such films were done during the yesteryears with practical effects.

It's a tale of two halves, each seemingly like a telemovie on its own with a lot of unnecessary subplots that could have been dropped. If only the story and pacing was kept tight, the character development done better and having the dialogue spruced up, could this have been memorable rather than leaving an aftertaste that it's a rushed job to cash in on the recent Wing Chun craze in the cinemas

a huge Donnie Yen fan

It's off-topic, I know, but Jim... have you noticed Donnie's little sister?