In the middle of the night, a young lady crashes
her car and instantly dies before the car catches on fire. Her watch flies off her wrist and breaks
as soon as it hits the floor. Sometime later, a man finds himself caught in traffic when the
Woman stops her car in the middle of the street because she has a flat tire. Since the road is
blocked now, the man drives around her to turn the corner and almost crashes against a truck driven
by Uncle. By dodging the truck, he ends up driving onto th
e sidewalk, and the banner from a store
falls on top of his windshield. The man leaves the car to remove the banner, but by pulling it, it
shakes a wire attached to a window, which had been previously prepared by Fatty. The window breaks
and all the shards fall on top of the man, killing him. People quickly call the police, who come
to check on him while waiting for the ambulance. Among the curious crowd, the Brain is making
sure everything is going according to plan. It turns out this hadn
't been an accident, it
was a murder planned by his team, which creates elaborate schemes to make their kills look like
accidents. The cops help Woman push away her car to leave, and Uncle leaves too in his truck
after dropping his cigarette on the ground. Brain sees this and picks it up not to leave any
evidence at the scene of the crime. Meanwhile, Fatty goes to a parking lot nearby where he uses
balloons to cover up the security camera, then he approaches the car where their client left
their
payment to pick up the envelope with the cash. Moments later, Woman and Uncle are at their
hideout watching the news. The man they killed was a triad gang boss and there was no doubt
it had been an accident. Woman's worried about Uncle's mistake of dropping his cigarette, but
when Fatty comes over, Uncle lies and says he picked the cigarette up. Brain is hearing all
this through hidden microphones he installed in the room ages ago, so when he comes over too, he
scolds Uncle for lying
and reveals the cigarette he had picked up. He isn't sure if he can keep on
trusting Uncle, and while Uncle throws a tantrum, Brain reminds everyone that mistakes like
this jeopardize their safety. Not wanting to lose this job, Uncle announces he's quitting
smoking for good. After their meeting is over, Brain goes home through three different means
of transport to lose anyone that may follow him. When he arrives at his apartment, he makes sure
there's a leaf stuck on the door, which he put
s there every time he leaves so he knows that
if it's fallen, it means someone broke in. After putting the money in the safe, he plays some
music and lies down in bed to pretend his wife who died in the car crash is still there with him.
Sometime later, Mr. Wong is contacted by Fatty to receive instructions on how to hire them for
their next killing. He must grab a bag from a trash can and put his belongings in them, then
he must enter an old building and leave the bag outside the elevator
while he goes to the sixth
floor. Fatty picks up the bag and takes it with him on the bus where he meets Brain and they look
through the things together. Wong wants them to kill his wheelchair-bound father. For a couple
of days, Brain follows father and son to learn their routine by heart, then the team studies
the area to come up with ideas for accidents. Their best option is to use the electricity that
powers the local tram, because Brain refuses to even consider a car crash as an option.
In the
end, they come up with the idea of hanging a wire from the tram cable that will make contact
with the target when he crosses the tracks. To make it conduct electricity though, they'll
have to execute the plan during a rainy night. To hang such wire on the cable, the
team practices flying kites in the rain. They wait for the forecast to predict a rainy
night, and when it finally happens, everyone gets in position. Woman will fly the kite,
Uncle pretends to be a street toy seller tha
t happens to have balloons, and Fatty will drive a
bicycle while pretending to do some deliveries. Unfortunately, it doesn't rain the moment Wong
and his father cross the tracks, so they have to abort the plan for that day. The weather seems to
be mocking them because it begins raining as soon as they leave, and the following few tries also
fail because rain never falls on time. One night, while waiting, Woman and Fatty notice Uncle's
breaking his promise and smoking a cigarette. They scold
him for it, reminding him of his
quitting some days ago, but he begins showing signs of Alzheimer's when he doesn't remember his
promise. Woman and Fatty think they should abort the mission because Uncle is obviously not well,
but at that moment, it starts raining. Not wanting to miss the chance they've been waiting for so
long and since Uncle swears he's fine, Brain orders them to execute the plan. First, Woman
lets the kite tangle around the tram cable. Then, Uncle is supposed to release
the balloons to
cover the security camera, but he forgets. Brain tells Fatty that since it's dark and
raining, they can take the risk anyway, so Fatty pushes through with his bicycle and
drives near Wong to make him trip and fall. This causes him to let go of his father's wheelchair
and the old man slips back into the tram tracks, where he is touched by the kite wire and instantly
electrocuted. Afterward, Brain goes to look for Uncle, and in his hurry, he bumps against a
random person. Wh
ile dodging them, he steps onto the street without noticing the incoming bus.
In his desperation to avoid hitting Brain, the bus driver turns the vehicle and ends up hitting
Fatty instead before crashing against a car. Brain runs to check on Fatty, who wonders
if this truly was an accident before dying. Not having time to waste, Brain takes all of
Fatty's personal belongings and runs away before the police can find him. When Brain arrives at his
apartment later, he finds the leaf on the flo
or, indicating someone has broken in. However, the
police are already there because a neighbor noticed the open door and called them. The
apartment is a mess and all the money is missing from the safe, but Brain is relieved to
see at least they didn't take his wife's watch. Before leaving, the cops tell him that other
flats in the building have also been broken into, but Brain still believes this was no accident:
someone obviously is going after the team. Feeling extremely paranoid, he remo
ves the
SIM card from his phone not to be tracked, frustrating Woman because now
she can't reach him. Afterward, Brain goes to stay at another apartment that
he had rented for emergencies like this one. The tv shows the police have decided the
bus crash was an accident, and the driver is still unconscious. The next day, Brain begins
watching the streets from an abandoned building. Uncle has forgotten they've already finished the
job so he's pretending to be the toy seller again, and Wong i
s going to an insurance company's office
to see his agent Chan. The two men argue strongly about a file, which leaves Wong crying and Chan
making a serious-looking phone call. Afterward, Brain goes to have lunch at a local fast food
joint and accidentally comes across Woman, who expresses her worries. Brain refuses to talk
to her and leaves as soon as she opens her mouth. In the evening, Brain visits Uncle, who has
started to take pills, and tells him this plan has been aborted. The next mo
rning, Brain takes him to
another one of his many apartments, where he has to stop Uncle from taking his pills twice. Uncle
admits he can't recall when he began getting so forgetful and he doesn't remember the exact state
of his health. He does remember Brain though, and that his wife died because of a speeding car.
To this day, Brain still thinks that the accident had been a setup that should've killed him
instead, and Uncle is the only one that believes him. In order to keep Uncle busy an
d safe, Brain
makes up a new mission and tells him to stay in that apartment, keeping an eye on the happenings
of the street under his window until new orders. Next, Brain beings following Chan around, getting
suspicious when he hears him talking on the phone on the bus, saying "it's been done". At home, he
seems to be going through a regular normal life, and Brain can't help noticing that the
apartment under Chan's is up for rent. The next day, Brain changes his looks and rents
the empty
apartment. He installs a bunch of mirrors that will allow him to always keep an eye
on the door, then breaks into Chan's apartment to investigate the man further. First, he checks all
the personal items for any clues, finding nothing. Then he installs some hidden microphones
before returning to his own place to draw Chan's floor plan on his ceiling. From then
on, Brain keeps a close surveillance on Chan, taking notes of every conversation he hears.
The only person he sometimes talks to is U
ncle, who keeps calling him to tell him he's forgotten
about the balloons. Whenever Chan leaves for work, Brain follows him and spies on him at the office.
One morning, Wong has another conversation with Chan, looking completely distressed. After
refusing to give Chan a file, Wong goes to the usual parking lot to leave the payment
in a car. Brain's surprised to find there's a balloon already there covering the security
camera and decides to wait, which allows him to discover Woman is coming
to pick up the envelope.
Brain calls her after she gets in her own car, and she explains she's now in charge of picking
up payments. Fatty had told her about this client, which Brain refuses to believe because Fatty
wasn't supposed to share that information with anyone on the team. Brain accuses her of having
followed Fatty in the past and of betraying him, demanding to know who staged the bus crash.
Woman calls him paranoid for thinking it wasn't an accident, but Brain doesn't listen and
decides to kill her. By forcing the fire alarm, the tap on a nearby pipe flies off under the
water pressure and hits Woman on the head. After cleaning his fingerprints off the alarm,
Brain checks she's really dead and takes away the envelope with the cash. On his way out of the
building, he sees Wong falling to the ground, instantly dying. More suspicious of the agent
now, Brain works extra hard on following his movements and conversations. One evening, he hears
Chan mention a client that
he calls "an old man", who fell from a window on the second
floor. On a different night, Brain has to sit through Chan and his girlfriend getting
busy, which makes him miss his wife even more. A few days later, Brain hears Chan tell his
mother on the phone about Wong's weird case. Wong had indeed met with Chan before he decided to
end things for himself to give Chan his father's death certificate, but he had acted strange
and kept saying he was sorry. Afterward, someone saw him take the ele
vator to the roof, and
Chan feels bad for not having escorted him out. After that bit of conversation, more days
pass without anything exciting happening, and it's become a drag for Brain to sit through
Chan's routine. One afternoon, he receives a call from Uncle asking for help, and Brain rushes
to see him, but by the time he gets there, it's too late: Uncle is on the ground, bleeding
but alive, and the police are at the apartment looking through an open window. Brain remembers
Chan menti
oning a man falling and a second floor, so he's sure now that Chan is behind all this.
He returns to the apartment and begins pulling the pages off his notebook to spread them all over
the place while he takes notes on the walls too, trying to find the missing piece he's lacking.
A few days later, Chan knocks at Brain's door. Seeing him through the peephole, Brain decides to
ignore him until he's gone. Then he concentrates on following the noises upstairs, and he's
so distracted that he doe
sn't notice his landlord also coming over and almost getting
inside his apartment to drop their contract. Brain stops him just in time and promises to clean
the writing on the walls to get him to leave. Afterward, he spies the landlord's movements
through the window, discovering that Chan is talking to him about something serious.
Things get worse when Brain sees people checking the building's windows and a voice in
the microphones says "here's another one" before removing them all. Afraid
to be caught, Brain
rushes out of the apartment and bumps into Chan, who just apologizes before going away. Desperate
for revenge, Brain makes a plan to kill Chan: the idea is to reflect the sun's rays to blind
a car driver and make them run over Chan. However, while putting his plan in motion,
Brain receives a call from Uncle, explaining he had jumped because he took too many pills. At
that moment, the tv shows a reporter interviewing the bus driver that has finally woken up and is
now te
lling everyone his version of the events. It turns out it had been an accident after
all, and Uncle caused it because he dropped the balls he had with him to pretend he was
a toy seller. Chan had nothing to do with it, Wong had jumped only because he was overwhelmed
by guilt. As Brain finally comes to terms with the fact he had been wrong, a solar eclipse occurs
and blocks the sunlight, so the car misses Chan. However, when the sun comes out again, the rays
get reflected onto a different ca
r. Brain runs to stop it and Chan recognizes him when he sees him,
but Brain isn't fast enough and the blinded car kills Chan's wife. Sometime later, Brain cleans
the apartment to leave it for good. On his way out of the building, Chan finds him and stabs him as
he asks him why Brain had to harm him like this. Brain dies staring through the window and
wondering if he'll finally reunite with his wife.
Comments
This movie makes absolutely no sense
You're smart enough to take three different means of transport to get home but yet you leave all your money in one place that's unguarded most of the time?
We're watching a movie that’s basically selling the fact that all deaths although looks accidental are in fact all strategically plans out and nothing is coincidental. To say at the end that his teammate fatty died accidentally, his female teammate died because of a misunderstanding and his own death was just an act of revenge by an upset husband who's wife died seems to throw the main point out of the water. From this team of killers, who survived and who reeks all the rewards at the end? -- The Uncle!! My theory is Brain got killed at the end and never found out that the Uncle was indeed the mastermind behind everything. Coincidental Alzheimer, coincidentally dropping his cigarette and not picking it up, coincidentally forgetting to block the security camera, coincidental fall from the second floor AFTER calling Brain for help, coincidentally killing his teammate and coincidentally dropping of all the balls that started it all. How is it possible to have so many coincidents in a movie where nothing is a coincident? Brain's wife died in a car accident and coincidentally besides Brain, only the uncle believes it was a set up. Brain coincidentally got robbed but his wife’s watch which he values was coincidentally left behind from the robbery. This tells us that whoever did this, knows him and knows him well. And all these coincident just happens to revolve around the uncle. He’s actually the brain behind the brain. Using Brain to exterminate everyone while he sits back and relax and then killing Brain at the end. Too bad the audience only gets to watch the movie from Brain POV and so we don't get to see how the whole picture unfold. Brain got outsmarted and died without knowing why seems like the perfect ending. Motive: The team looks down on the uncle and even threaten to throw him out of the group. After throwing a tantrum, he then starts his own group as the mastermind and in order for him to do that, he must get rid of the competition. His own team. Or he already had his team in place beforehand, hence dropping the cigarette and lying about it to start a fight with his teammates. New group members probably consisted of the random guy who bumps into Brain in the rain, the bus driver and the sketchy landlord. After coincidentally bumping into some random dude during the operation, Brian was instantly thrown into the street where he was faced with an incoming bus where he almost got hit. After getting hit by the bus instead, Fatty questioned if it was truly an accident before dying. Brain believes that this was no random bus accident and knows someone was going after his team. Uncle plays his cards well with the coincidental I have Alzheimer and can't remember anything and so Brain killed the woman after she picked up the payments and knowing the clients only Fatty should be aware of. Brain was lead to go after Chan and coincidentally the apartment underneath Chan's apartment just happened to be up for rent. The sketchy landlord pops up at critical times unannounced and talks to Chan seriously which pointed more fingers at Chan. Right in the middle of Brain executing the hit, the bus driver just happened to coincidentally wakes up at the right moment to give his statement and the uncle just coincidentally called to say he took to many pills resulting in his own fall, which in turn got Chan’s wife killed. Chan was save but this resulted in Brian getting stab at the end by Chan. No doubt Chan will either be jailed or kill off soon afterwards. How else can we explain a group of assassins (Fatty, Woman, Brain) getting killed one by one in a short amount time and the only one who survived is surrounded by a series of coincidents? Accidents? I think not! We should know better than that. So in conclusion, it was an elaborate scheme executed by the uncle perfectly instead of a bunch of coincidental mishaps that just happened to happen.
This man gets Silent Assassin in every Hitman mission in every game - first try. This man taught Death how to kill people in Final Destination.
damn, what a story. I thought "Uncle" was pretending and the mastermind.
I love the concept. Being paranoid is an issue and this movie nicely depicted how worse can it get.
A Hong Kong movie being recapped with actors I recognize. How strangely exciting! Great recap as usual!
We must all agree that this movie's directors and cast are still serving their life sentences
Brain is a really smart guy but somehow he couldn't even get the name Brian right.
The man that always meticulously planned hits dies after his plan backfired due to unforeseen events and is spontaneously stabbed by a random dude after accidentally killing his wife. Quite the ironic karma.
For me, the essence of the film lies in the name of the characters. The fact that characters don't have actual names in the film elaborates that the focus of the film isn't on the characters. The main character's name "Brain" essentially sums up the plot that if we put our attention on something and our brain becomes obsessed with that thing then we start creating non-existent connections. The ancient knowledge of astrology can be cited in this context. The same thing happens in the film. Brain-the main character- gets obsessed with the idea that someone's behind the accidents and eventually connects everything with it. Moreover, for me, the film successfully delivers the message and next time whenever my brain is gonna get paranoid, I'll take a step back and think whether it's actually the case or my brain is leading me towards it.
This could honestly be the "Hitman" movie based on a group instead one dude. Their ideas are a lot more interesting than the 2 official Hitman movies.
This dude needs to become friends with Yor. Imagine the conversations they'd have with each other.
You brought back the classic intro! Great work! That‘s what I‘m talking about!
That ws actually a good movie recap. The story was good. I guess Brain finished everything he had to do left in life at that point.
That classic intro is back🤓😎🥳
Anyone else glad the intro is back? "Welcome back to movie recaps"
I’m still confused as to why Chan stabbed Brain. He had no idea that the wife’s death was brains fault, in fact from his POV, brain is a weird quite neighbor who tried to warn Chan about the car that hit his wife.
the problem with ``accidents`` is that they would be completely unreliable... for a person in order to actually die it has to either : 1)have a demaged vital organ 2)have a massive bleeding 3)have blocked airways (bad infection is another thing that can be deadly ,but you have to be completely out of medics`reach for prolonged period of time for that) human can fall from the top of 4th storey building and still have roughly 50% chance to survive... so humans are pretty good at surviving any type of ``accidental`` blunt object related traumas you can get sliced many times by sharp objects and still live as long as one of three mentioned conditiones was not met...(in slender man incident victim which was little girl survived 20+ stab wounds and knife attack victims 81% of the time survives)
This movie is basically a game of Hitman played by the most articulate stealth player. Commiting accidental assassinations with full intention.