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So Close (2003)

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Reviews Counted: 37

Fresh: 30

Rotten:7

Average Rating: 6.7/10

Consensus: This HK actioner oozes with style.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for pervasive violence and a sexual conversation

Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Theatrical Release:Sep 12, 2003 Limited

Synopsis: The brothers Chow Nunn and Chow Lui’s giant computer company is facing a tense crisis – a powerful computer virus is rapidly wiping out their computer network. At the last minute a cyber-friend... The brothers Chow Nunn and Chow Lui’s giant computer company is facing a tense crisis – a powerful computer virus is rapidly wiping out their computer network. At the last minute a cyber-friend arrives to join the battle. The mysterious “Angel.com” battles the virus and saves the company. Invited by Chow Lui for a visit in person, Angel.com arrives in the form of the beautiful Lynn (Shu Qi). But it turns out Lynn is a professional assassin with amazing high-tech and kung fu skills. She kills Chow Lui with cyanide hidden in a pair of sunglasses. She’s aided by her sister Sue (Zhao Wei), who operates the pair’s World Panorama surveillance system, which allows them to tap into any video security system in the world. Young cop Kong Yat Hong (Karen Mok) and her partner Mark are put on the case. Hong has a brilliant mind and immediately senses she’s dealing with a killer with very special skills. Realizing they are facing a tough adversary, Lynn and Sue become fascinated with Hong as well. Lynn runs into Yan, the cousin of an old friend who died. Lynn and Yan shared an unspoken love in the past which is now rekindled in the open, and Lynn begins to question whether she wants to continue to be an assassin. Chow Nunn was behind his older brother’s death. He hired Angel.com to kill Lui because Lui opposed Nunn’s business plans, and also because Nunn is carrying on a secret affair with Lui’s wife. But when Hong’s investigation starts to point to Nunn, Nunn becomes worried and decides to hire Angel.com for another hit – only so he can double-cross them, wipe them out and prevent them from leading the police back to him. Yan tells Lynn he loves her and wants to marry her. After battling an attack by robbers with her amazing martial arts skills, she tells Yan her family’s history. Her father invented the World Panorama for use by the authorities, but was turned down. Suspiciously, word of the device got out to the underworld and both parents were brutally killed in front of the girls’ eyes by criminals eager to get their hands on the invention. Bereft at the loss of their parents and disillusioned with the law, the sisters turned professional assassins, killing criminals for other criminals. Lynn tells Sue she wants to stop their criminal life and get married – she won’t accept Chow Nunn’s order for the second killing. But Sue, angry and feeling abandoned by Lynn, decides to carry out the killing herself. Lynn realizes what’s happening and rushes to save Sue, who doesn’t have the skills to carry out the hit. They are attacked by Chow’s men but escape. Now the assassin and the cop must join forces – so Sue can avenge her sister’s death and Hong can prove her innocence in a spectacular confrontation at Chow Nunn’s headquarters... -- © 2002 Screen Gems [More]

Starring: Shu Qi, Zhao Wei, Karen Mok, Michael Wei

Starring: Shu Qi, Zhao Wei, Karen Mok, Michael Wei, Seoung-Heon Song

Director: Corey Yuen

Director: Corey Yuen
Screenwriter: Jeff Lau
Producer: Chui Po Chu
Studio: Strand Releasing

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12/27/07
Joe Lozito
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No review available.

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01/11/07
Michael Dequina
Mr. Brown's Movies

Contains some clever set-pieces, mostly involving a Cyrano-type communication between the sisters.

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05/26/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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02/09/06
Time Out

Part of the feedback loop created when The Matrix, which co-opted Hong Kong filmmaking styles, began to influence Asian cinema itself.

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01/21/04
Bryant Frazer
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus

spectacular girl on girl fights

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01/19/04
Don Willmott
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01/04/04
Empire Magazine

could suck a tennis ball through a keyhole

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12/31/03
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central

...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?

Full Review Source: New Times | comment Comment
10/08/03
Luke Y. Thompson
New Times

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.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
10/06/03
Oz
eFilmCritic.com

The action in So Close is so giddily relentless that it makes you realize how stodgy most American tough-guy movies are.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
09/26/03
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

If stiletto-heeled heroines outfoxing legions of dunderheaded males are what you're looking for, seek no more.

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09/20/03
Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer
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Hong Kong action delirium at its best

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09/18/03
George Wu
culturevulture.net

Luscious superstar Shu Qi and action expert Corey Yuen prove that Hong Kong movies can still deliver the goods Hollywood can't.

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09/13/03
Charles Taylor
Salon.com
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So Close is executed with so much style and expertise that it's bound to end up a guilty-pleasure favorite.

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09/13/03
Daniel Eagan
Film Journal International

It's high-octane estrogen designed for unisex consumption, addictive action-film eye candy for boys and girls.

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09/12/03
Wade Major
Boxoffice Magazine

Charlie's Angels only wish -- in some corner of their empty, overstimulated minds -- that they were as cool as the chicks in So Close.

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09/12/03
Mark Rahner
Seattle Times

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.

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09/12/03
Edward Guthmann
San Francisco Chronicle
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Action scenes make the 'acting' scenes look vacuous, and you wonder why Yuen bothered with mushy memories, emotive close-ups and lyrical injections of They Long to Be (Close to You).

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09/12/03
David Elliott
San Diego Union-Tribune
 
 
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