Keep An Eye Out 2018 Written and directed by Quentin Dupieux. A French film. I'd only seen one other Dupieux film, Rubber from 2010. I didn't care that much for Rubber back then.
A man called Louis is being interrogated by Le Commissaire Buron of the French police, Louis had discovered a man in a puddle of blood outside his apartment building early one morning. Louis has been at the police station for a while, he's hungry but he's offered no food other than an old half eaten chocolate bar from Buron's desk.
Buron is a poor police man, bored with his job, unfocused and clueless. During the interrogation he leaves Louis in the room while he slips out to see his son. The son gives him a hot dog. No hot dog for Louis. Buron leaves Louis in the care of Philippe, a coworker born with only one eye. Philippe only passed his police exam because someone fudged his score.
Sadly Philippe is even less competent than Buron, in fact, he's so inattentive and clumsy he accidentally kills himself with a plastic triangle from a drawing set. Stabbed right in his good eye. That was one of the couple of times I laughed out loud. We only meet a few police officers, none of whom seem like they are earning their daily crust from their skills.
Louis isn't overly smart either, he tries to hide Philippe's body in a locker in the office. Buron returns from his visit with his son and starts to quiz Louis about his actions the night he found the dead body. Poor Commissaire Maigret would be rolling over in his grave if he had observed Buron at work. I'm not overly sold on the ending either.
There are a few funny scenes but generally I don't think it was much more than average. I'm not inclined to recommend it to anyone but other's might like it more than me.
Accident Man 2018 Based on the British comic Accident Man by Pat Mills and Tony Skinner, screenplay by Stu Small and Scott Adkins, directed by Jesse V Johnson. Scott Adkins plays the main character Mike Fallon.
Mike Fallon is an assassin who's specialty is accidental looking murders. Mike works for Big Ray, the barman at an assassin's pub. Mike has a long history with Big Ray, Ray took him as an apprentice assassin when he was a teen. Most of the assassin's in the bar take jobs from Big Ray. They are a mixed lot of murderous scum. Big Ray keeps a good handle on them, he has his rules, breaking a rule could get a man, or woman, killed.
Mike's ex-girlfriend is murdered by some junkies during a home invasion. She was pregnant with his baby. Rather than letting it go, Mike gets mad. Bad thing to do. Ray has always told him to remain emotionally detached but Mike breaks that rule like it was nothing. Mike figures out that it was a pair of assassins he knows from Big Ray's bar. He stops in to visit them at their workout location. He beats a confession out of them but doesn't kill them.
Mike visits Big Ray's bag man Milton. He'd sent Mike to a location to pick up his fee and an assassin shows up to kill him. The Chinese guy fails and Mike makes it look like he had a motorcycle accident and died. Milton flips the client. Mike goes to pay him a visit. That has some serious repercussions for Mike and the other assassins. Hardly anyone survives.
Most of the movie is a series of action scenes with plenty of martial arts and gun battles. The action scenes were quite good. Adkins did his own martial arts. I enjoyed it but I'm doubtful I'd bother picking up a copy. It does remind me not to hang around with assassins. We watched the Blu-ray but it's on Amazon Prime free film libarary, there's also the 2022 sequel Accident Man: Hitman's Holiday. I'll have to watch that sometime.