So Close
A conflict of interest between two high-kicking assassin sisters is complicated as they're pursued by the criminals who hired them and an equally high-kicking female cop.
23 February 1963, Hong Kong, China
21 November 1950, Hong Kong
5 June 1968, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2 June 1970, Hong Kong
26 December 1974
20 March 1946, Ibaraki, Japan
12 March 1976, Wuhu, Anhui Province, China
3 April 1975
18 August 1972, Hong Kong, China
May 26, 2006
Contains some clever set-pieces, mostly involving a Cyrano-type communication between the sisters.
January 19, 2004
spectacular girl on girl fights
September 12, 2003
Charlie's Angels only wish -- in some corner of their empty, overstimulated minds -- that they were as cool as the chicks in So Close.
October 08, 2003
...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?
September 12, 2003
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.
September 13, 2003
Luscious superstar Shu Qi and action expert Corey Yuen prove that Hong Kong movies can still deliver the goods Hollywood can't.
September 12, 2003
A brilliant example of the genre.
September 12, 2003
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.
January 21, 2004
Part of the feedback loop created when The Matrix, which co-opted Hong Kong filmmaking styles, began to influence Asian cinema itself.
October 06, 2003
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.
September 20, 2003
If stiletto-heeled heroines outfoxing legions of dunderheaded males are what you're looking for, seek no more.
December 31, 2003
could suck a tennis ball through a keyhole

