While the film veers from over-the-top action to melodrama, you've got to love its campy sensibility.

| May 26, 2022

A delirious example of grrrl power, Hong Kong style...master action choreographer Yuen keeps topping himself with one battle royal after another.

| Mar 12, 2018

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 27, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 11, 2007

Contains some clever set-pieces, mostly involving a Cyrano-type communication between the sisters.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 26, 2006

Part of the feedback loop created when The Matrix, which co-opted Hong Kong filmmaking styles, began to influence Asian cinema itself.

| Original Score: B | Jan 21, 2004

spectacular girl on girl fights

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 19, 2004

could suck a tennis ball through a keyhole

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 31, 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?

Full Review | Oct 8, 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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 6, 2003

The action in So Close is so giddily relentless that it makes you realize how stodgy most American tough-guy movies are.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 26, 2003

If stiletto-heeled heroines outfoxing legions of dunderheaded males are what you're looking for, seek no more.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 20, 2003

Hong Kong action delirium at its best

| Sep 18, 2003

Luscious superstar Shu Qi and action expert Corey Yuen prove that Hong Kong movies can still deliver the goods Hollywood can't.

| Sep 13, 2003

So Close is executed with so much style and expertise that it's bound to end up a guilty-pleasure favorite.

| Sep 13, 2003

It's high-octane estrogen designed for unisex consumption, addictive action-film eye candy for boys and girls.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 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.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 12, 2003

Action scenes make the 'acting' scenes look vacuous, and you wonder why Yuen bothered with mushy memories, emotive close-ups and lyrical injections of They Long to Be (Close to You).

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 12, 2003

A terribly stylish telling of a terribly ordinary tale, but it's built of such nifty action sequences and with such an unabashedly sentimental heart that you wind up enjoying yourself more, really, than you ought.

Full Review | Sep 12, 2003