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Get ready for one of the most dynamic, action-packed films of the year! Directed by famed action choreographer Cory Yuen (The Transporter, Jet Li's The Enforcer), So Close is a thrill-a-minute shootout, with lightning-quick action sequences and great performances by Qi Shu (The Transporter), Zhao Wei (Shaolin Soccer) and Karen Mok (Black Mask). A crooked businessman brings in a pair of high-tech assassin sisters to murder his elder brother so he can take over the family's business empire. When a determined policewoman starts to put the pieces of the puzzle together, the businessman realizes that he must destroy all evidence…including the assassins and the cop! The three women are left to fight for their lives, while helping each other along the way. With some of the best action scenes to appear on film this year, So Close is a high-octane blockbuster hit!
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Columbia, TriStar, Region 2 PAL 2004
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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I admire woman who can hold there own and this film says it all. While watching this I couldn't help but to think of Charlies Angels plus the opening scene with Lynn easily marks out the style of this film. "So Close" revolves around a computer program that can hack all the security cameras on earth. Developed by their dad, the program was inherited by Shu Qi and Vicky Zhao after his death, and rather than sell it and make lots of money, they use it to become career assassins - follow your dreams! But after years of busting caps, Shu Qi has become a hurting-on-the-inside kind of lady. Her passion for being a super cool hit woman has cooled and she's starting to feel sorry for the thousands of people she took away. Unable to bring herself to do more than kneecap the legions of goons she used to blithely blow away, she's started to think about getting out of the game, finding a guy, and settling down. Little sis, Vicky Zhao, on the other hand, wants to be like big sis and open many cans of whup a** on veritable armies of henchmen. Karen Mok, a cop who has run into the glass ceiling so hard she's got a concussion, unwinds from all the razzing she gets from her sexist colleagues by pursuing Vicky and Shu Qi and maybe, just maybe, falling for Vicky in the process. Cop/criminal romances are, historically, really bad ideas but it works really well here.
Flying bullets, spinning sidekicks, supercomputer balderdash, car chases, and shattering sheets of glass tumble off the screen like an all-you-can-eat action feast and it takes a fight with Japanese screen legend Yasuaki Kurata to bring this whole buffet to a close. Corey Yuen deploys the pop ballad "Close To You" all over the soundtrack and here's a chance for a whole new generation to get it stuck in their heads, associating it with images of Shu Qi dealing out death from nickel-plated 9mm's.
"So Close" is a movie that manages the neat trick of being simultaneously super-silly and super-cool. With Corey Yuen bringing years of being Jet Li's action director to the table; and Vicky Zhao, Karen Mok and Shu Qi bringing perfect hair, perfect clothes, and perfect roundhouse kicks, it's like a fashion shoot that cant be beat.
Flying bullets, spinning sidekicks, supercomputer balderdash, car chases, and shattering sheets of glass tumble off the screen like an all-you-can-eat action feast and it takes a fight with Japanese screen legend Yasuaki Kurata to bring this whole buffet to a close. Corey Yuen deploys the pop ballad "Close To You" all over the soundtrack and here's a chance for a whole new generation to get it stuck in their heads, associating it with images of Shu Qi dealing out death from nickel-plated 9mm's.
"So Close" is a movie that manages the neat trick of being simultaneously super-silly and super-cool. With Corey Yuen bringing years of being Jet Li's action director to the table; and Vicky Zhao, Karen Mok and Shu Qi bringing perfect hair, perfect clothes, and perfect roundhouse kicks, it's like a fashion shoot that cant be beat.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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The action in this film is outstanding, and the actresses play their parts very well (partly because they're cute women beating the living daylights out of everyone else). The only criticism is that the story tends to wander a bit in the middle, but the ending more than makes up for that. Well worth buying.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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This is a very stylish film directed by Corey Yuen, who was also responsible for the excellent martial arts movie 'DOA'.
The action scenes in this movie are equally precisely choreographed and full of fantastic twists and turns. It has a plot of sorts - but that's really there to help string the unbelievable action sequences together.
The three leading women are amongst the most interesting actresses in China at the moment. Karen Mok is part-Eurasian, appears to be a bit of a genius who speaks five languages and majored in Italian literature, and has also starred in many Hollywood movies. Zhao Wei is the bad girl of Chinese cinema, having once modelled in a Japanese war flag. She's also a well-known singer and sometimes goes under the name of Vicky Zhao. On top of all that, she is also a soap star in her native land. Shu Qi is the gorgeous babe who appeared in 'Transporter' with Jason Statham but is still searching a little for that great super-hit of a movie.
Definitely worth a night's entertainment.
The action scenes in this movie are equally precisely choreographed and full of fantastic twists and turns. It has a plot of sorts - but that's really there to help string the unbelievable action sequences together.
The three leading women are amongst the most interesting actresses in China at the moment. Karen Mok is part-Eurasian, appears to be a bit of a genius who speaks five languages and majored in Italian literature, and has also starred in many Hollywood movies. Zhao Wei is the bad girl of Chinese cinema, having once modelled in a Japanese war flag. She's also a well-known singer and sometimes goes under the name of Vicky Zhao. On top of all that, she is also a soap star in her native land. Shu Qi is the gorgeous babe who appeared in 'Transporter' with Jason Statham but is still searching a little for that great super-hit of a movie.
Definitely worth a night's entertainment.
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Not a blockbuster, but a good film with hot babes!
If you like martial arts films, and sweet asian babes, get this film! The story is good, and the fights are well thought out. Read more
Published 12 months ago by C. A. Wilson
Good action
Takes a while to get going then the action is good with one of the best samurai sword fights i'v seen with Martial arts legend Yasuaki Kurata from Fist of Legend.
Published 18 months ago by Mr. David Wilson
Better Than I Expected
Admittedly, this is one of those love it or hate it kinda movies. It's the kind that you really shouldn't like but you just can't help it. Read more
Published 23 months ago by LadyTsang
Love it!
An elegant, sophisticated, beautiful killer, her pigheaded sister and a butch female detective. This is one of those films that critics will either love or hate. Read more
Published on 29 Mar 2010 by J.P
Not even close (to a good film)
OK based on the reviews and the low price I bought a copy. Now I'm very tolerant of poor films, happy to park my brain, open a beer and just watch any old action movie - I also... Read more
Published on 24 Mar 2010 by Paul
A watch it once film.
Ok if you like sexy asian women and a so so plot then you will like this, but i thought the story had a few "when is the action going to start" moments, when you mind tends to... Read more
Published on 4 Mar 2004 by "shedofjoy"
Beautiful in every way
From the opening sequence you can tell this is a polished film yet it manages to stay away from being hollywood in style. Read more
Published on 15 Feb 2004
so close
THI IS ONE OF THE BEST ACTION FILMS I HAVE SEEN FOR A LONG TIME.
I HIGHLY RECOMEND IT.I HAVE SEEN MANY ACTION/MARTIAL ARTS MOVIES OVER THE YEARS... Read more
I HIGHLY RECOMEND IT.I HAVE SEEN MANY ACTION/MARTIAL ARTS MOVIES OVER THE YEARS... Read more
Published on 10 Nov 2003 by "gabrielcochrane"
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