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So Close
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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Qi Shu, Wei Zhao, Karen Mok, Seung-heon Song, Yasuaki Kurata
Directed By: Corey Yuen
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0043396098688
Format: Anamorphic
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: 2003-12-30
Running Time: 110
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
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A crooked businessman hires a high-tech professional assassin team of two sisters to kill his elder brother. Fearing exposure by an undercover policewoman who has been shadowing the sisters, the businessman has the older sister killed and implicates the policewoman. The grieving younger sister and the framed policewoman must now form an alliance to bring down the businessman. Great high-kicking action in the tradition of Charlie's Angels and The Matrix.
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Summary: A perfect example on why looks can be deceiving
Comment: 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.
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Summary: Stylish, Sexy and hard-hitting! Corey Yuen pulls it all off...
Comment: SO CLOSE is directed by renowned action choreographer; Corey Yuen (Transporter). Corey is a sought after action director with his fresh style and cool attitude. (He isn't as renowned as the legendary Yuen Woo-ping but he's close). "So Close" may give an impression that it is a "Charlie's Angels" knock-off and while it does look inspired by the idea, it successfully sidesteps that boundary and turned out to be one of the most entertaining flicks I've seen back in 2002. It is way better than the stupid remake with Barrymore and Diaz and it features three of the current hottest Hong Kong actresses. I'm a bit broke for the holidays so excuse me if I just dig into my existing collection to write my next review.
Lynn (Shu Qui, My Wife is a Gangster 3) and Sue (Vicky Zhao Wei, Shaolin Soccer) are stunningly beautiful sisters with a job unlike any other. They are intelligent, sexy and lethal women who are also the most "in-demand" assassins in the city. They never miss and seems like they are unstoppable; until police detective Hong (Karen Mok) becomes hot on their trail. However, Inspector Hong may have to take a second look on where her loyalties lie...
Non-stop action is the main draw for "So Close". Corey Yuen once again proves why he is a forced to be reckoned with when it comes to fast-paced action sequences. The martial arts scenes are truly lovely to behold, and while Shu Qui and Vicky Zhao aren't well-trained fighters in real life, but they sure look awesome performing the scenes. Corey still manages to pull off something fresh, stylish and downright sexy! The action sequence are hard-hitting but doesn't lose that feminine touch. Highlights include a close quarters mano-o-mano fight between Mok and Shu Qui; the fight is so well-choreographed that is so refreshing to watch. There is also a great car chase with Vicky Zhao with Shu Qui aiding her escape via satellite positioning while she fights off bad guys. Corey's talent shines through with the creativeness of the sequences and the mastery of their execution. Fantastic fights, sexy poses, alluring smiles are what's in store for you!
Now, I'm not saying that "So Close" is a perfect film but it is a very entertaining actioner. Despite the typical and unoriginal "cat and mouse" game, the film is a delight to watch. Also, the performances of Taiwanese actress Shu Qui and Hong Kong's own Zhao Wei offer a lot of depth for a hyped-up action film. Their characters are well-rounded and their acting skills (while not the best they've done) are fitting for the plot that manages to add a little "meat" to its unoriginality. Karen Mok may not be the sexiest of the bunch but she is a delight to watch; her "tough cop" character adds a little flare of masculinity mixed in feminine sexiness in the proceedings. While it did lose some of its momentum in the 2nd act that it almost fell to the canned melodrama entrapment, the final act of the film provided one of the most stylish, hyper-accelerated fight sequences that more than made up for its faults.
This action film is geared towards males but I'm pretty sure women will enjoy it also with its "women with guns" theme. I thought that this was one of the best imports I've seen in 2002 and well worth repeated viewings. My raging male hormones aside, the film successfully put everything together and gave me one of the most entertaining movie watching experience I've had in a long time.
SO CLOSE overshadowed all my expectations that it was another "Martial Angels" or Charlie's Angels" cardboard cutout copy; instead I was treated to an alluringly SEXY action film that is truly delightful to watch. The producers of the stupid "Charlie's Angels" franchise should take notes from this film on how to make the next sequel (If any). It is indeed FRESH and extremely raw. "SO CLOSE" offers a lot of martial arts action, bullet ballet and ultra-hot exotic women. It has ALL the factors any man will truly enjoy and is worthy of his dvd collection.
SO CLOSE is a welcome addition to the "Girls who kick butt" genre.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! [4 stars]
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Summary: somethign about this i love
Comment: There something about this movie I love, It over uses everything really, the song Close To You-by the Carpenters, is played about 5 times through out the film it seemed they could only really afford this one song and they used it till it died. But it works; it's like a true 60's film with its one song.
Other then that the story and acting is nothing crazy, it's a simple revenge tale with some great hints a romance. This is what made the film for me it was the interest between the hit-man sister and the female cop. The way the camera handles it, letting them find their attraction instead of telling me that they attracted so when it culminates in the end it feels right leaving me the viewer satisfied with the end result of the romance.
This is important also the fact that there is this homosexual romance in the film existing with out being told it homosexual it great, there is no coming out story it is simple attraction, two people finding them selves wanting the other. As true romance works in real life, whether we let it or not attraction is simply something that happens not something that must be defined and that's what this film does so well it just lets it be. While still respecting the other sister romance with a male.
Gay films have found themselves lost in the story of coming out, and living with being gay in a straight society, but this film break these lines and defines itself inside a action movie non the less, while still caring on with the story of revenge.
I give this movie, 4 stars because of the smile on my face after I watch it as well as the willingness to make a romance film that breaks straight and gay standards.
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Summary: So close
Comment: The title hits it pretty close to the mark on this one; so close. Cute, fun smart, sexy, tragic, action. Not the best film ever but certainly worth owning.
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Summary: come closer!
Comment: Hey Film fans. Want an intelligent review go elsewhere but i tell it like it is! I have viewed this movie more than once , so that says something i feel. The movie has a great story, great acting, and some really decent kung fu girl battles. The movie uses some kewl special effects, and is filmed nicely. I recommend for the asian film fan.
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