This is a bit of a weird take because Ip Man is a pretty standard outing for a Hong Kong, period martial arts movie. I suspect you might like martial arts movies more than you think as long as it's a period piece. You should try anything featuring "Wong Fei-Hung" as a character.

Yeah, I remember those moments. Just wasn't convincing enough for me personally. And yeah, it's obvious that he was going for suicide by cop, but I think he's already got their full attention by pinning them down and delivering pot-shots from a high powered rifle. Still don't think there was strong enough justification to outright murder a cop. No point in debating further. We are both remembering the same facts, just interpreting it differently.

The movie kind of builds up the brothers as having a somewhat noble justification for their robberies, and by extension, they themselves are somewhat noble, even if Ben Foster is a bit of a loose cannon. The final shoot-out is just a matter of buying time for Chris Pine to get away, so I have a hard time buying the fact that Foster takes deadly aim at law enforcement and kills a cop.

I'm not claiming that that's a result that should never happen, but I guess I didn't feel like the movie did a good enough job showing us that Ben Foster had that much hate and ill-intent in him to do something like that.

I liked Hell of High Water enough, though I thought the third act escalated in a baffling way. But to me, Wind River is by far the better film. It's overlooked in comparison to Hell or High Water. And even though Hell or High Water looks more aesthetically like a western, Wind River has more of the soul of a western (whatever the hell that's supposed to mean).