So Close
Men are largely an irrelevance in So Close, Corey Yuen’s “girls with guns” actioner made in 2002 just as Hong Kong was exiting its glory period. I prompted Google in AI mode to list the key characteristics of the “girls with guns” genre were. It said – Hong Kong, female protagonists, gunplay and stunts, challenging norms and exploitation v agency. We get all of those in the opening sequence, in which assassin Shu Qi’s Lynn, dressed all in white, enters the HQ of a shady Hong Kong megacorporation posing as a techy “angel” specialising in malware attacks. Only to exit shortly afterwards at speed, pursued by scores of security men, many of them … Read more