A conflict of interest between two high-kicking assassin sisters is complicated as they're pursued by the criminals who hired them and an equally high-kicking female cop.
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.
– Megan Lehmann,
New York Post,
12 Sep 2003
rotten:
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.
– Edward Guthmann,
San Francisco Chronicle,
12 Sep 2003
fresh:
Charlie's Angels only wish -- in some corner of their empty, overstimulated minds -- that they were as cool as the chicks in So Close.
– Mark Rahner,
Seattle Times,
12 Sep 2003
fresh:
Luscious superstar Shu Qi and action expert Corey Yuen prove that Hong Kong movies can still deliver the goods Hollywood can't.
– Charles Taylor,
Salon.com,
13 Sep 2003
fresh:
If stiletto-heeled heroines outfoxing legions of dunderheaded males are what you're looking for, seek no more.