Sean Akizuki's East Asian Drama and Movie Blog

Although Deric Wan is known to play mostly protagonist roles, but he also got to play antagonistic roles and I love how awesome this guy is in doing them!  Now for each of the three roles I've seen him... Pretty much he was VERY deadly in So Close, perhaps the most dangerous role he's played and my favorite villain role from him.  So, he gets his brother assassinated, he commits adultery with his sister-in-law behind the scenes then they are later seen as lovers (they planned it TOGETHER) and the worse is how he really could get the job done well.  So he manages to get Shu Qi killed and Karen Mok arrested though everything turns against him.  In fact, this character was so evil he had to die at the end of the movie! In Dolphin Bay, his character as Eddie the REAL antagonist of the show that showed up later as Man Qing's manager.  While he seemed a good guy to the people, he was always out there to make sure Xiao Gang doesn't succeed EVEN if it means cheatin...

Now it's time to do a review on So Close which was among the earlier Chinese films I saw as a College student before I did backtrack watching to old ones.  This one has loadful of hotness (Shu Qi and Vicki Zhao play as sisters) and Karen Mok who is a police officer that gets entangled in a mystery.  Jeff Lau has written such a twisting piece while Cory Yuen really knows how to direct.  Now for the plot. So we start it where the a hacking begins.  We don't know who set it up but one thing for sure, Deric Wan who acts as the film's main antagonist is revealed to be the ambitious younger brother only known as Mr. Chow.  He kills his older brother, flirts with his sister-in-law and in order to make sure his tracks are covered, he wants the death of the assassin he hired which was Lynn acted by Shu Qi.  I'd say that Karen Mok's role as Kong Yat Hung.  I'd say for a film villain, he is very cunning and really knows how to hide his tracks until death comes...