My first impression of the film judging by its name was that it wasn’t going to be a happy event. However, I didn’t expect it to be as confusing as what it was. As soon as the film started, immediately there was drama - a victim was thrown through the front windscreen of a car after a collision and the victim appeared to have been left for dead. As the film continued, there appeared to be four main characters, but their occupation was shrouded in mystery. I thought they were assassins or hit men of some sort, but they were in fact ‘accident choreographers’, which is the same as an assassin but they kill their targets through well staged ‘accidents’.
It wasn’t until the middle of the film when I actually started to gain interest. The team, which consisted of ‘fatty’ and ‘uncle’, were planning to eliminate someone by electrocuting them on tram lines, and they were sorting out the technicalities of this staged ‘accident’. The team successfully managed to eliminate their target, but something went horribly wrong. To the audience, it appeared that a bus had lost control and almost ran the Brian, as he was named on Wikipedia, over. However, the Brian managed to escape the path of the out of control bus, but instead the bus hit and killed ’Fatty’. This event traumatised the Brian, and slowly we saw the Brian become very mentally unstable - he became very secluded and very paranoid, convinced that there was an organisation out there that wanted to kill the Brian and his team.
The Brian slowly severed all ties with his team mates, but this resulted in his team mates becoming easy targets. Uncle ’fell’ several stories out of a window, and the only female member of the Brian’s team was killed by himself as he felt she had betrayed him and gone to another organisation to eliminate the Brian. Her death was particularly gruesome - she was impaled in the temple with a pressurised water gasket that instantly killed her. However, by this point of the film, I genuinely was confused and it wasn’t until I came home and read a review that I understood what exactly was going on. But after this part of the film was over, everything became a little predictable and disappointing. There was a scene where an eclipse happened, and a woman was ran over by a car, even though the Brian tried to stop the accident from happening due to his sudden attack of a guilty conscience. But the woman died anyway. Then The Brian was stabbed to death by the woman’s husband, and then the film finished. Boring.
After coming home and reading about the plot in more detail, I realised that the woman who died at the start of the film was in fact the Brian’s wife, hence why he was carrying the watch that the audience saw smashed in the wreckage of the crash. But even after reading about the plot in more detail, I still wasn’t fulfilled. The film just didn’t seem to have any momentum to it at all. It just plodded through the scenes without really pulling them together, hence why I, as a member of the audience, felt so confused. The plot was very vague and wasn’t shown in very much detail, and I also felt like I had seen films like it before, but done a lot more effectively - it seemed like a cheap imitation. Sadly, the film didn’t even come close to Sophie’s Revenge, and it was also the film I enjoyed the least out of the films I have seen so far.
