To start with, going into this film I readied myself to ignore any historical incorrectness which was my mistake with the first film.
Despite being a sequel, this film has many parallels to the first film. A young challenger faces off against several Masters in a row in order to prove his strength, Imperialists cause trouble and a fight between a Chinese Master and a foreigner which ends in the death of the Master. Ip Man then challenges the foreigner to avenge his fallen comrade. Donnie Yen once again does a fantastic performance of Ip Man as Kung-Fu Jesus. Though interestingly this film portrays his endless kindness as also a fault as it leaves him poor, arrested and his dojo is taken from him. Hmm, if I had to say this film's greatest flaw, it's that like the first one in that all the antagonists are extremely one dimensional in their puppy kicking evilness. Unlike the first film though, the final fight against the Villain "The Twister" was a satisfying battle that had Ip Man on the ropes a few times before he managed to snatch victory and avenge his fallen comrade. Ip Man's speech at the end in particular, about how he wasn't fighting to prove superiority but instead so that people would start understanding one another was heartwarming, especially since many of the crowd who stood up and clapped contained Westerners who originally came to cheer on The Twister.