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So Close, 2002

Starring: Vicki Zhao, Qi Shu

Directed by: Corey Yuen

Written by: Jeff Lau

Language: Mandarin, Cantonese, English

Country: Hong Kong

Runtime: 110 min

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Rating:6.7

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The mood of So Close is stylized, exciting, and rough. The plot centers around hitmen, chases, and vengeance. It is a foreign, thriller, and action movie. Stylistically, So Close is neo-noir and features martial arts. In approach, it is serious. The pacing is fast. So Close is set in Hong Kong. It happens in contemporary times. It is especially suggested for a boys' night.

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SO CLOSE is a high-energy, high-tech, visually arresting film by action director Cory Yuen, known for his collaborations with Jet Li. Sisters Lynn (Shu Qi) and Sue (Zhao Wei) are slick, fearless, and equipped with enough firearms and gadgetry to outwit an army. The girls were raised as assassins after witnessing their parents' murder by a group of ruthless businessmen who stole their father's ground-breaking invention: a way to control video security cameras via satellite. Now that they're all grown up, the super-sisters use their father's technology to mastermind their way into the guts of a corporate building. Once inside, they perform supernatural feats of martial arts and levitation (a la CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON) to assassinate bigwig computer mogul Chow Lui. The sinister (but always lovable) sisters meet their match in Kong Yat Hong (Karen Mok), a whip-smart detective investigating Chow Lui's murder. Just before Hong can book them for the crime, all three women become the target of Lui's corrupt brother Chow Nunn, and the lines between law and lawlessness are pleasantly blurred. Lynn reconsiders a life of crime when old flame Yan (Seoung-Heon Song) shows up unexpectedly, but her tenacious younger sister, desperate for a promotion, is not about to let go of life on the edge.

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Language:	Mandarin, Cantonese, English
Country:	Hong Kong
Release date:	21 June 2003
Runtime:	110 min

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Vicki Zhao

as Sue

Qi Shu

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Los Angeles Times

A martial arts valentine to the power of fighting women. It's a slick and delirious Hong Kong action film. Full Review

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by: Kenneth Turan

The Onion (A.V. Club)

This sort of film lives or dies by its promise of bullet-dodging, stylishly clad women throwing themselves into impossible feats of daring, and when the time comes for action, Yuen displays a rare gift. Full Review

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by: Keith Phipps

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CONTAINS SPOILERS... We discussed this film in our Friday Film club selection and these are some of the thoughts we came up with. "The film's charm is that it doesn't delude itself by pretending to be something it isn't. Yuen set out to make an... Read and rate it

10.January.2011
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by: Netflowers
Netflowers rated this movie0/10

My current favorite action movie. There's lots of horrible movies that try to make the women drive the action but very few that can pull that off, let alone also have a moving story. (There's some, though, that work as comedies.) The best similar... Read and rate it

07.March.2010
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by: Hyomil
Hyomil rated this movie10/10Must See

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