Even Brad Pitt can\u0027t save this story, which is duller than a government report on high\u002Dspeed rail links
And I would rather watch a movie about those transportation machinations than to sit throughagain. A history of Canadian mass transit would likely contain more fun, humour and excitement than the lumbering, overbooked carriage that is Bullet Train.
Pitt plays Ladybug, a Zen hitman whose handler wants him to collect a briefcase full of cash, currently in the possession of the aforementioned Brits, codenamed Tangerine and Lemon. But it turns out that Ladybug and the citrus brothers are merely the first in a long list of first-class baddies on the Tokyo-to-Kyoto run.Article content
Director David Leitch , working with an adaptation of Kotaro Isaka’s 2010 novel, packs his film with violent and unlikely set pieces, including a knife fight in an inexplicably empty bar car; outside-the-train fisticuffs, complete with 300 kph winds; snakes on a train; and a fight between Pitt and Henry in the quiet car, which would have been more amusing if they’d managed to actually fight silently, instead of just turning down the volume of the film’s sound mix.
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