So Close (2003)
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 37
Fresh: 30 | Rotten: 7
This HK actioner oozes with style.
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 4
This HK actioner oozes with style.
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A high tech corporation is sent into turmoil when hackers demanding ransom break into their internal computer system with a powerful and apparently unstoppable virus. A mysterious, beautiful young woman who calls herself "Computer Angel" quickly saves the business. But when she requests a meeting with the company's shady CEO, he gets more than he bargained for. Lynn (Shu Qi of The Transporter) turns out to be a highly skilled assassin, who knocks off the CEO with the help of her rambunctious
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Qi Shu
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Wei Zhao
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Karen Mok
Detective Hong Yat Hong -
Song Seung-heon
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Michael Wei
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Yasuaki Kurata
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Ricardo Manood
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All Critics (40) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (32) | Rotten (7) | DVD (11)
If stiletto-heeled heroines outfoxing legions of dunderheaded males are what you're looking for, seek no more.
Top CriticLuscious superstar Shu Qi and action expert Corey Yuen prove that Hong Kong movies can still deliver the goods Hollywood can't.
Charlie's Angels only wish -- in some corner of their empty, overstimulated minds -- that they were as cool as the chicks in So Close.
Has moments of style and audacity, but the script is a shameless muddle and the shifts in tone -- from gooey romance to hard-driving, hyper-pop action -- give the impression that the movie was directed by six or seven people in alternating shift.
Hong Kong's answer to Charlie's Angels has big guns, hot chicks and cool gadgets -- hooked into a junky killers-for-hire narrative so nonsensical it practically neutralizes any guilty-pleasure positives.
A brilliant example of the genre.
Contains some clever set-pieces, mostly involving a Cyrano-type communication between the sisters.
Part of the feedback loop created when The Matrix, which co-opted Hong Kong filmmaking styles, began to influence Asian cinema itself.
spectacular girl on girl fights
This Hong Kong action flick features everything a junkie of the genre enjoys: wire work, martial arts, gunplay.
This movie manages, amazingly enough, to be both sexy and yet not overly exploitative. Go figure (and, Hollywood, take notes).
could suck a tennis ball through a keyhole
...wait'll you get to the movie's finale, which shamelessly cribs from Die Hard but adds kung fu chicks and samurai swords. Honestly, haven't you always hoped someone would do that?
A movie that's notable not so much for actually being well made, but for being exactly what a large chunk of the audience lives for - explosions, fighting & girls in next to no clothes.
The action in So Close is so giddily relentless that it makes you realize how stodgy most American tough-guy movies are.
Hong Kong action delirium at its best
So Close is executed with so much style and expertise that it's bound to end up a guilty-pleasure favorite.
It's high-octane estrogen designed for unisex consumption, addictive action-film eye candy for boys and girls.
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