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90Next to the Hong Kong action picture So Close, nearly every Hollywood thriller of the summer looks like an elementary-school project thrown together the Sunday night before it was due.
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90A martial arts valentine to the power of fighting women. It's a slick and delirious Hong Kong action film.
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80The protracted final sequence, which involves balletic swordplay worthy of the famous scene in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," will take your breath away.
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80This 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.
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80A delirious example of grrrl power, Hong Kong style.
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75A brilliant example of the genre -- with romantic subplots to boot.
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75Abounds with zero-gravity action ballet, frisky interludes of sapphic foreplay, and weepy drama about doomed love. The film also has an irresistibly kitschy theme song: "Close to You," the treacly Burt Bacharach-Hal David smash by the Carpenters.
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75Its sense of play, its sleek design and Yuen's spectacular action sequences will make it, I suspect, attractive to palates not accustomed to the spicier or cruder forms of this genre.
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75So Close is the film "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" dreams of being: sleek, silly, completely ridiculous and irresistible.
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70Cory Yuen's So Close is a kind of Hong Kong martial-arts variation on the Charlie's Angels movies, only better.
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70Slickly packaged, unashamedly exploitative popcorn movie.
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So Close is a beautiful mess. I didn't really understand what was going on, but I loved every stylized minute of it.
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The surprising lack of humor in So Close, and long, trying stretches between combat sequences aren't likely to attract new converts to the genre.
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60Sleek, stylish and crammed with girl-power action.
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50If it weren't for the estrogen-fueled action scenes -- choreographed by director Cory Yuen with wit and style -- So Close would be as disposable as the shampoo ad it all too often resembles.
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50A silly Hong Kong action flick from actor-turned-director Corey Yuen, fits nicely in the "bimbo fu" genre.
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40A resolution gifting world-surveillance software to the cops, plus slo-mo action over the oft reprised "Close to You," stretch past bullet time into nap time.
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30With 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.
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zeiynahchelled.10This movie was the greatest ever...it was so amazing this movie shows girl power....so go girls we are the best among the rest...just keep it real.