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The film is based on a popular, and acclaimed, Japanese novel by Kōtarō Isaka. But considerable changes have been made by screenwriter Zak Olkewicz—and, in ...

But those moments are short lived, and then it’s back to the awkward squirm of watching talented actors debase themselves for laughs that never come. It’s a painful gag that’s returned to again and again, one of many examples of Bullet Train going for sideways erudition and falling hideously flat. The film is based on a popular, and acclaimed, Japanese novel by Kōtarō Isaka. But considerable changes have been made by screenwriter Zak Olkewicz—and, in improvisatory fashion, by the actors under Leitch’s command.

Movie Review: In Bullet Train, Brad Pitt plays a crook who's been hired to steal a briefcase. Unfortunately, the train is loaded with assassins.

To choreograph all this, both on a story level and an action-design level, and to make it make any kind of sense is a fairly impressive feat. And amid all the shooting and slicing and punching and stabbing, we can almost make out the contours of an interesting philosophical question: Is it better to care and die or to have nothing to live for and survive? And very often what determines the outcome of a scene is not skill or purpose but sheer chance and fate, working in all the Rube Goldberg ways that fate seems to work in movies. Tangerine (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and Lemon (Brian Tyree Henry), known together as the Twins, are there to deliver to a mysterious and all-powerful Russian gangster his deadbeat son (Logan Lerman) and a briefcase full of money. It’s all manipulation and extended cinematic sleight of hand, but the film embraces its absurdly colorful, noisy, gonzo artificiality. And at times, David Leitch’s film is almost as glorious as that description makes it sound — elaborate and ridiculous but dedicated to making the elaborate and the ridiculous feel … well, not plausible, exactly, but certainly compelling and fun.

Sony is pulling in Bullet Train, the last big tentpole of a summer that has grossed $2.9 billion domestic through the end of July per Comscore, +142% from the ...

The pic made its world premiere at SXSW and is 98% certified fresh. Reviews haven’t registered on Easter Sunday yet but it’s expected to deliver in the mid-single digits this weekend at 3,200 theaters. The movie arrives today in France and the UK, followed by Australia, Brazil, Germany and Mexico joining Thursday with Spain clocking in on Friday. The hope is that the dynamic moviegoing 18-34 demographic shows up big. Sony is pulling in Bullet Train, the last big tentpole of a summer that has grossed $2.9 billion domestic through the end of July per Comscore, +142% from the same pandemic period a year ago, but off 17% from the May-July summer frame in 2019. Atomic Blonde was positioned to arthouses when it opened, and finaled at $51.6M domestic, while Hobbs & Shaw did $174M. Deadpool 2 remains Leitch’s highest grossing movie as a director both in the US/Canada ($325M) and worldwide ($786M).

Meet the assassins aboard the Brad Pitt action thriller Bullet Train and the brilliant actors who are playing them.

The Wolf is another dangerous hitman on board the bullet train who has a personal ongoing feud with Ladybug. He is portrayed by the Latin megastar Bad Bunny. He is a Puerto Rican rapper and singer, who has been gradually building a collection of acting credits. The film has a huge ensemble cast with Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, Zoe Saldana, Chris Rock, Rami Malek, and Robert De Niro to name just a few. Aaron is set to join Sony’s Spider-Man Universe (SSU) in the upcoming movie Kraven the Hunter in the title role. He has starred in various television series and movies such as Westworld, Lost, Rush Hour 3, The Wolverine, 47 Ronin, Avengers: Endgame, and the Mortal Kombat reboot. Michael Shannon is starring as the leader of a criminal organization who is most likely another major antagonist Ladybug will have to face. King will also be starring in Netflix’s upcoming movie The Uglies based on the Scott Westerfeld novel of the same name. King is also an executive producer on the project. The fact that it has such an amazing cast certainly can't hurt either, so let's take a closer look at who we can expect to see in what could possibly be the movie of the summer. Having first gained worldwide recognition for his role as a young drifter in Thelma & Louise in 1991, he went on to star in some of the most iconic movies of the '90s and early '00s. You may know him from his performances in Fight Club, Interview with the Vampire, Troy, World War Z, Inglorious Basterds, or perhaps the Ocean’s trilogy, but even these movies barely scratch the surface of his mile-long resume. As the train gets closer to its destination, it becomes anyone's game as they must all use their killer instincts to survive and make it to the final stop. His objective takes him onboard a train that seems to have a number of other dangerous passengers. The highly-anticipated Bullet Train is a new movie by David Leitch that features a star-studded ensemble.

With two different trailers, playing the concept as both straight action and comedic bloodbath, it would be easy to think 'Bullet Train' is a movie no one ...

On the surface, it’s a silly, violent heist flick set on a train, and I’d have enjoyed it if that was all there was to it. This is Brad Pitt at his best, effortlessly balancing comedy and carnage with the sort of earnestness that lets the movie slip a helluva lot of contemplation into the mix in fun and quirky ways. Easier still to see 'Bullet Train' as just another comedic gore-fest from 'Deadpool 2' Director David Leitch. There are certainly a lot of similarities in the tone, action sequences, and abundance of katanas.

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Brad Pitt, Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brain Tyree Henry, Andrew Koji, Hiroyuki Sanada, Michael Shannon. Distributor: Sony. Released: August 4, 2022.

There are also a bunch of agreeable and funny cameos that we won’t spoil; suffice to say this is a stacked cast. Bullet Train takes a little too long to leave the station, and like a lot of those ’90s flicks we mentioned earlier, has a few obnoxious habits. Usually egged on by the goateed clerk behind the counter, you’d end up with flawed but engaging flicks like 2 Days in the Valley (1996), The Big Hit (1998), Thursday (1998) or one of a hundred other Tarantino/Guy Ritchie imitating flicks that really hit the spot.

The actor's comic chops can't save an ultra-violent crime caper stuffed with self-delighted banter.

The setting is a giant metal cow-catcher of a 16 car bullet train from Toyko to Kyoto, director David Leitch brings the chaotic snark and easy listening ...

By his earpiece, handler Maria Beetle (Sandra Bullock) is engaging in a dialogue with Ladybug about how they see luck as he boards the titular train in pursuit of a briefcase. Some may feel that the trailer for Bullet Train promised a Die Hard scenario but Leitch ends up going for something far goofier, with the vibe of Pitt’s stoner character in True Romance. Pitt has a similar unkempt look here as Ladybug, an unremarkable assassin who characterises himself with having the worst of luck. Neither the cool carnival of assassins that the trailer suggested, nor the bland thrill-ride that some have suggested, Bullet Train is quite literally a super-powered high-velocity vehicle for Brad Pitt. He’s one of the few big stars that you actually might want to see up on the big screen in a tent-pole summer-blockbuster adaptation of a cult Japanese novel.

That's the bottom line on Bullet Train, a new dark comedy/thriller directed by David Leitch (Deadpool 2, Hobbs and Shaw). Overlong, tedious, and endlessly self- ...

In the end, it’s all a blur, a bore, and an irritating example of filmmaking that is super-pleased with itself yet soulless and amounting to nothing. The movie is overly self-aware, with the characters making their little jokes and then almost waiting a beat for the unseen audience to laugh. Meanwhile, a seemingly innocuous young woman (King) is also aboard the train with an agenda of her own, which involves a man named Kimura (Andrew Koji) who is seeking vengeance for the attempted murder of his own son. They manage to wring a drop of humanity out of their characters, which is more than anyone else can say. Of course, that’s not how it goes, and the rest of the needlessly convoluted plot ping-pongs repeatedly between flashbacks, coincidences, and chance encounters that are weak substitutes for a real story and dramatization. Brad Pitt stars as Ladybug, the kind of amiable, chatty goofball Pitt has been developing for a few years now as his go-to persona, verging on the edge of self-parody.

Bullet Train (2022). Columbia/rated R/126 minutes. Directed by David Leitch. Produced by Kelly McCormick, David Leitch and Antoine Fuqua.

The casual conversation, including one character who adores Thomas the Tank Engine, and one-on-one skirmishes are where the film excels. It’s all well-staged and coherent, but it’s also juiced by the notion that none of these people want to fight each other. There is a certain irony in the movie, which has taken some flak for adapting a Japanese novel and placing Brad Pitt in the leading role, being about a white American who is desperately trying not to be the main character amid a multi-pronged crime plot. Those two come back even as the film asserts itself as a skewed variation on the various post-Pulp Fiction Tarantino rip-offs. It's cheeky to a fault, but it works as the last big summer tentpole of 2022. It’s as violent as you’d expect, with not a little over-the-top R-rated gore, but the carnage is partially confined to flashbacks and narrative digressions.

Brad Pitt plays an amiable assassin who gets stuck on a Japanese high-speed train with a motley crew of other killers and no easy way out.

“Bullet Train” has its moments, a few laughs, some smooth moves, but Leitch has done better elsewhere, including in the original “ John Wick,” which he directed (uncredited) with Chad Stahelski. A tale of vengeance, “John Wick” has an equally high body count, but it’s better structured, more modulated, and has a brittle veneer of high-mindedness. Again and again, the movie cuts away from the main action to fill in one of the characters’ backgrounds, which are never as engaging as Pitt et al. Freely adapted from “Maria Beetle,” a page turner by the Japanese author Kotaro Isaka, the movie was directed by David Leitch and written by Zak Olkewicz. As might be expected from a big-ticket studio item, there have been changes in the transition to the screen, including the commercially strategic makeup of the main characters. One man’s throat is slit with a knife while another is shot in the neck. The story is incidental; the vibe, Looney Tunes Tarantino-esque. Mostly it turns on villains fighting and killing and fighting some more as a loosey-goosey Pitt moves from car to car punching, joking, mugging, scheming and sprinting. The giddily violent bummer “Bullet Train” takes place in Japan on a high-speed train that turns into a theater of death.

It's an action thriller about an army of incomprehensible assassins all trying to kill each other on the famous aerodynamic marvel that travels 320 miles from ...

The director is stuntman David Leitch, who brings to the assignment zero knowledge of form, craft or discipline. Did I forget to mention there’s also a poisonous snake onboard, slithering beneath the seats and waiting to strike? Brad Pitt, of all people, trashes his talent and diminishes his usual reliability as some kind of hit-man secret agent called Ladybug. It is never clear who he works for or what he’s doing on the bullet train in the first place, but he ends up being only one of a gang of cutthroat assassins who are searching for a case of money. One of the killers dies with blood pouring from his eyeballs while the soundtrack plays “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles.” You can’t make up this stuff. Prince (played by Joey King, one of the worst actresses I’ve ever seen on screen) may or may not be the daughter of the King of the Japanese underworld called White Death (poor Michael Shannon, slumming his way through the most abysmal work of his career). There’s another maniac who howls like a wolf on cue. Let’s hope that’s not a deadly promise for a series of unwanted sequels.