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'{{other uses}} {{Infobox film | name = So Close | image = Soclose.jpg | alt = | caption = Film poster | film name = {{Film name| traditional = 夕陽天使 | simplified = 夕阳天使 | pinyin = Xīyáng Tiānshǐ | jyutping = Zik6-joeng4 Tin1-si2}} | director = [[Corey Yuen]] | producer = Chui Bo-chu | writer = [[Jeffrey Lau]] | starring = [[Shu Qi]]<br>[[Zhao Wei]]<br>[[Karen Mok]] | music = Sam Kao<br>Kenjo Tan | cinematography = Venus Keung<br>Chan Chi-ying | editing = [[Cheung Ka-fai (film editor)|Cheung Ka-fai]] | studio = Eastern Film Production<br>[[Columbia Pictures]] | distributor = [[Columbia Pictures]]<br>[[Sony Pictures Classics]] | released = {{film date|2002|9|6|df=yes}} | runtime = 110 minutes | country = Hong Kong | language = Cantonese | budget = | gross = HK$880,332<ref name=hkmdb>{{cite web|title=So Close (2002)|url=http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=10044&display_set=eng|publisher=[[Hong Kong Movie Database]]|accessdate=18 April 2013}}</ref> }} '''''So Close''''' is a 2002 Hong Kong action film directed by [[Corey Yuen]], starring [[Shu Qi]], [[Zhao Wei]] and [[Karen Mok]]. The film's English title is derived from [[The Carpenters]]' song "[[(They Long to Be) Close to You|Close to You]]", which has a prominent role in the film. ==Plot== Lynn and her sister Sue are computer hackers, assassins and espionage specialists who use their late father's secret satellite technology to gain an advantage over their rivals and law enforcement agents. At the beginning of the film, they infiltrate a high security building and assassinate Chow Lui, the chairman of a top company in Hong Kong. After their successful mission, a police inspector named Kong Yat-hung is assigned to investigate the case and she manages to track down the assassins. In the meantime, Chow Lui's younger brother Chow Nung, who hired Lynn and Sue to kill his brother so that he can become the chairman, wants to kill the assassins to silence them. The cat-and-mouse chase becomes more complicated as both the police and the thugs are out to get Lynn and Sue. Sue has always been playing the role of the assistant by staying on the computer and helping to disable the security systems and giving instructions on navigating the area, while Lynn, who is older and more experienced, does all the field work. Sue is jealous and thinks that Lynn refuses to let her participate more actively because she is less adept, but actually Lynn is trying to protect her sister from danger. Their relationship becomes strained when Lynn falls in love with her friend's cousin Yen and wants to give up her job and marry Yen. Sue intends to continue her career as a [[contract killer]] so that she can prove that she is as good as her sister. Kong Yat-hung tracks down Sue in a bakery, where Sue is buying a birthday cake, and this leads to a frantic car chase. When Sue realises that she is being cornered by the police, she calls Lynn at home and asks her sister for help. At the same time, Chow Nung's assassins break into the house and kill Lynn and frame Kong Yat-hung for the murder. Sue escapes from the police and finds out the true identities of her sister's killers from the CCTVs in the house. She goes to see Kong Yat-hung and offers to help her clear her name, but Kong must assist her in avenging her sister. Left with no choice, Kong Yat-hung agrees to team up with Sue to hunt down and kill Chow Nung and his henchmen. whwn lynn is trying to help her sister sue the one master gun her and sue is scaping and lynn is dead. ==Cast== * [[Shu Qi]] as Lynn * [[Zhao Wei]] as Sue * [[Karen Mok]] as Kong Yat-hung * [[Song Seung-heon]] as Yen * Michael Wai as Ma Siu-ma * [[Yasuaki Kurata|Kurata Yasuaki]] as Master * [[Deric Wan]] as Chow Nung * [[Shek Sau]] as Chow Lui * Josephine Lam as Alice Chow * Ben Lam as Ben * Ricardo Mamood as Peter * May Kwong as May * Henry Fong as Lynn and Sue's father * [[Paw Hee-ching]] as Lynn and Sue's mother * [[Tats Lau]] as Ghost King * Kam Hing-yin as Captain * [[Josie Ho]] as Ching * Jude Poyer as murderer * Dave Taylor as murderer * David John Saunders as murderer * Leon Head as murderer * Lam Seung-mo as Lai Kai-joe * [[Leo Ku]] as man in lift * Wong So-bik as May * Ben Yuen as Mr Yeung * Huang Kaisen as Wong Fat-chi * Victy Wong as bodyguard * Wong Wai-fai as bodyguard * So Wai-nam as bodyguard * Kong Foo-keung as robber * John Cheung as cop * Keung Hak-shing as Lee Hong-fai * Adam Chan * Tanigaki Kenji * Lam Kwok-git ==Reception== ''So Close'' holds an average rating of 6.7/10 based on 37 reviews on [[Rotten Tomatoes]]<ref>{{cite web|title=So Close (2003)|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/so_close/|publisher=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|accessdate=18 April 2013}}</ref> and an average score of 66/100 based on 18 reviews on [[Metacritic]].<ref>{{cite web|title=So Close|url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/so-close|publisher=[[Metacritic]]|accessdate=18 April 2013}}</ref> ==See also== * [[Girls with guns]] ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * {{imdb title|id=0300620}} * {{Amg movie|278026|So Close}} {{Corey Yuen}} [[Category:2002 films]] [[Category:Cantonese-language films]] [[Category:English-language films]] [[Category:Heist films]] [[Category:Hong Kong films]] [[Category:2000s action films]] [[Category:Columbia Pictures films]] [[Category:Sony Pictures Classics films]] [[Category:Science fiction action films]] [[Category:Girls with guns films]] [[Category:Films directed by Corey Yuen]]'