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So Close
2002
Directed by acclaimed actioner Cory Yuen (THE TRANSPORTER) this is a roller-coaster ride of shootouts. A pair of assassins, hi-tech sisters, are hired by a wealthy businessman to murder his brother but the determination of a policewoman to crack the case spurs him to destroy any incriminating evidence, and that means the cop .. Read more
| Starring | Qi Shu, Zhao Wei, Karen Mok |
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| Director | Cory Yuen |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller, World Cinema |
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So Close
Directed by acclaimed actioner Cory Yuen (THE TRANSPORTER) this is a roller-coaster ride of shootouts. A pair of assassins, hi-tech sisters, are hired by a wealthy businessman to murder his brother but the determination of a policewoman to crack the case spurs him to destroy any incriminating evidence, and that means the cop and the assassins themselves will have to go if he's to stay out of jail.
| Starring | Qi Shu, Zhao Wei, Karen Mok |
|---|---|
| Director | Cory Yuen |
| Studio | SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 46 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Cantonese |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 19 Jan 2004 Production year: 2002 |
| Format | DVD |
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Despite opening with a stunning office sequence (in which Shu Qi redefines the term “computer virus”) and closing with a spectacular rooftop swordfight, Corey Yuen's girlpower actioner loses its way in the interim amid a wealth of exposition and a tiresome romantic subplot. Clearly it helps to know why Shu and techno savvy sister Zhao Wei team up with cop Karen Mok to confound a malevolent tycoon. But it's much more fun watching them get on with the job or even messing it up, as when Mok and Shu end up handcuffed together. Think Charlie's Angels without the designer glitz.
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Enjoyably silly action movie in a sleek, comicbook style, with spectacular, high energy gun- and sword-fights, acrobatically choreographed; it is the sort of film where the heroine's hair waves attractively in the breeze even when she's indoors.
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19 out of 33 people found this review helpful
Stunning
Must admit it was the cover that sold me on this one - 3 foxy Asian chicks in sexy catsuits and tooled up - and its a belting movie as well...
Qi Shu plays Lynn who with her younger sister Sue(Vicky Zhao) run a high-tech assasination group - they do this because their Father designed a satillite survelence system but got murdered by the gangsters who wanted it for themselves and the two sisters undertake to revenge themselves.
Lynn manages to gain access to the baddies HQ and guided by Sue who runs all the techie stuff manages to kill the Chairman - one neat trick is too flood the building security systems with music - in this case The Carpenters Close to Me - so you end up with a kick ass Kung-Fu fight sequence set to Burt Bacharach.....which you don't see too often....
A local maverick cop(Hong at Hong - Karen Wong) is soon on their trail - things become complictated when the next hit they undertake turns into a set-up and soon the two sisters are fighting for thier lives while trying not get arrested.
Soon we are up to ears in car chases,gunfights and HK action fighting - all brilliantly done by Coery Yeun(who was involved with both Crouching Tiger and The Matrix) - there is a also a central bond betwen the two sisters that provides an emotinal core that acts as a counter-balance to all the action.
An event takes place half way through that is the pay-off to all this and Sue and Hong join forces against the rest of the bad guys(more than a hint of John Woo's The Killer) resulting in some really stunning stunts and wire-work.
The whole thing culminates in a bloody samurai sword fight and with more than a hint of lesbianism thrown in this is the kind of movie that Taratino gets his rocks off to....
The 3 leads are all exellent - Qi Shu is stunningly beatiful(she was the girl in The Transporter) and the whole thing is done with such style and grace it proves just how ahead of the pack Hong Kong still is. -
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Surprising
This film features some gorgeous women. Asian women seem to have an innate beauty and grace their western counterparts dont possess. So what is an average revenge type actioner is elevated a touch by the central asian characters who high kick and outwit their enemies with ease and aplomb. The plot is somewhat slight two sisters became disillusioned when there parents are murdered and the law fails to act to bring the culprits to justice. THe two sisters then become assassins bumping off bad guys for other bad guys, as you do. The actions scens are great especially the beginning action piece when a head bad guy is ingeniously dispatched with a cynadie grenade. The addition of the female cop was also a nice touch and she is the equal to the two sisters and this leads to a nice cat and mouse situation. Overall a very pleasant movie....
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