Few stars feature in the promotional poster for Accident, and in fact the movie sometimes feels as if Louis Koo Tin-lok is the sole player in this crime thriller. If nothing else, this gives Koo an opportunity to demonstrate just how much his acting has improved.
Produced by Johnnie To Kei-fung and directed by Soi Cheang Pou-soi, the film has a simple but clever premise. Koo plays The Brain, head of a group of hired assassins who make murders look like accidents.
The first 'accident' is dramatic and visually capturing. A series of apparent coincidences causes a window to fall out of a building and drop on a man standing below, killing him. Of course, this is no accident; it is a carefully choreographed assassination planned by The Brain and his team.
But when one of his team members dies in a car crash, The Brain starts considering the possibility they are not the only people capable of causing such accidents. He looks back at his wife's death in a supposed car accident, and beings to wonder if he has rivals in the business.
When The Brain sees the mysterious Fong (Richie Ren) at an accident site, he becomes more paranoid and is convinced he is Fong's next victim. By the end of the film, The Brain learns assumptions are dangerous, and sometimes accidents are simply accidents.