{"id":19082,"date":"2026-10-22T23:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T03:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=19082"},"modified":"2026-10-22T21:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T01:53:08","slug":"accident-2009-soi-cheang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/19082","title":{"rendered":"Accident (2009, Soi Cheang)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sourfaced Louis Koo leads a hitman squad, staging deaths as accidents, along with older Uncle, female Woman, and Lam Suet.  They pull off their latest job &#8211; electrocution via kite string &#8211; but Uncle is losing his marbles, then an out-of-control bus plows into Lam Suet.  Louis starts tailing people involved with the job, convinced his team is being taken out by a rival.  He thinks Woman is against him so he kills her, then their final client falls from a window.  <a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/danimal1\/film\/accident\/\">Gorman<\/a>: &#8220;Master of the surveillance state goes crazy when the apparatus is turned against him, then has an epiphany about the cruel vicissitudes of pure chance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/accident3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/accident2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Koo between the <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/13122\">Election<\/a><\/em> movies and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11047\">Breaking<\/a><\/em>\/<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12491\">Romancing<\/a><\/em>.  Woman was Anthony Wong&#8217;s wife in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12094\">Motorway<\/a><\/em>.  Lam Suet was Lam Suet.  Uncle was a Sammo\/Jackie Lucky Star who died last Halloween.  Next year we should have a <em>Devil\u2019s Vendetta<\/em> \/ <em>Ghost Snatchers<\/em> double-feature in his honor.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/accident4.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/accident5.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourfaced Louis Koo leads a hitman squad, staging deaths as accidents, along with older Uncle, female Woman, and Lam Suet. They pull off their latest job &#8211; electrocution via kite string &#8211; but Uncle is losing his marbles, then an out-of-control bus plows into Lam Suet. Louis starts tailing people involved with the job, convinced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,804,32,879],"class_list":["post-19082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-hitman","tag-hong-kong","tag-johnnie-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19135,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19082\/revisions\/19135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}