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

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

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

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

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.

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

A brilliant example of the genre.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 12, 2003

With the exception of some of the battles, which have the angry desperation of Mr. Yuen's inspired martial-arts choreography, Close is a nominal effort.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 11, 2003

While the goings-on in So Close are programmatic up to a point, the action is frequent and always electric and the film has a streak of genuine wackiness.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 11, 2003

Though it doffs its cap conceptually to the Charlie's Angels movies, this female actioner by veteran Hong Kong director Cory Yuen piles up more fun, accomplishment and giddy feminism than either of them.

Full Review | Sep 11, 2003

I didn't really understand what was going on, but I loved every stylized minute of it.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 11, 2003

This is all nonsense, of course, which wouldn't be a problem as long as the film kept the energy and humor going. But it doesn't.

Full Review | May 8, 2003