A self-styled accident choreographer, the Brain is a professional hitman who kills his victims by trapping them in well crafted accidents that look like unfortunate mishaps. When the team's next assignment goes disastrously wrong, Brain begins to suspect that someone else has planned an ‘accident’ on them.
Direction
Soi Cheang turns traffic and rain into weapons.
Cinematography
Hong Kong's wet streets have never looked more menacing.
Acting
Louis Koo's thousand-yard stare carries the whole film.
Director
Soi Cheang
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Soi Cheang storyboarded every 'accident' like a Rube Goldberg machine, with some setups taking weeks to plan for seconds of screen time.
The film reworks Johnnie To's milieu through a lens of pure anxiety—where To finds cool precision, Cheang finds only the terror of systems breaking down.
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