Accident Man - DVD review

In 1991 a very different British comic was published for a brief period of time.  Toxic! was staffed by writers and artists who jumped ship from 2000AD.  Toxic! was full colour and uncensored.  It also featured Marshall Law, a masterpiece by Pat Mills and Kevin O'Neill.  However, the best strip in the comic was arguably Accident Man, created by Pat Mills and Tony Skinner.

Accident Man is the story of an assassin, who works with a group of fellow hitmen, all of whom commit their crimes in a signature way.  Mike Fallon, the titular Accident Man, specialises in making hits look like accidents.  He is something of an artist in this regard but stuffers from PMT (post murder tension) and has to release the tension with other dangerous activities.  To me at 13 or 14 this comic was amazingly entertaining.  Luckily a nice collection of the strips was published a few years back and rather surprisingly a film based on the strip has been made.

The film is fairly entertaining and true to the comic.  It isn't a great work of art, it is a dumb action film but it is an enjoyable 90 minutes.

I hope Tony Skinner and Pat Mills have both been well paid for this film.  I think I saw Mills playing a victim of Mike Fallon's PMT in one scene.  This film was never going to be a blockbuster but I'm sure it will warm peoples hearts on Netflix.  Well, maybe not warm their hearts, maybe more raise a grim smile but you know what I mean.  It's good.