Bullet Train film

Based on the 2010 Japanese comic thriller by the same name, this screen adaptation from the co-director of John Wick and Deadpool fuses himbo humour with ...

The dialogue is forgettable, but these two old hands sell it through the force of their presence – a reminder that we still need movie stars to sell us junk; the good ones can even make it nutritious. At 58, Pitt is in the autumn of his blissful idiocy, and it's a blessing – even if the movies aren't always a match for his gifts. The exposition no doubt stems from screenwriter Zak Olkewicz (Fear Street: Part Two – 1978) filleting Kōtarō Isaka's character-packed source novel, and it seems to weigh down Leitch's natural aptitude for hard, pummelling violence – this is an extremely talky movie, too often at the expense of simply letting the action run riot like an out-of-control locomotive.

Bullet Train” is hurtling into theaters very soon. The action movie stars an incredible cast of characters with Brad Pitt's main man inside the speedy ...

Ladybug (Brad Pitt), who serves as a for-hire snatch-and-grab man, is asked by his handler (Sandra Bullock) to board a bullet train to Tokyo in order to steal a special briefcase and disembark at the next stop. “Bullet Train” will travel throughout theaters before landing on streaming, but since it’s a Sony film, it is likely that Netflix will be the first streamer to get Brad Pitt’s latest project. The movie adapts Japanese author Kotaro Isaka’s novel “Maria Beetle.” David Leitch directed the fast-paced film.

By Jim Slotek. Rating: C. There's something anachronistic about Bullet Train, the derivatively tongue-in-cheek action film in which operative Brad Pitt and ...

No faulting the destruction scenes, since they’re in Leitch’s wheelhouse, and as they say, every dollar is on the screen in that regard. Everybody else in the movie, it seems, is motivated by revenge against one of the others. (In Bullet Train, listen for Kyu Sakamoto’s international ‘60s hit Sukiyaki, and a Japanese version of Holding Out For a Hero from Footloose). When we meet him, he is codenamed “Ladybug.” It seems to be a running gag to give male operatives cute female-sounding names – with two key killers, brothers named Lemon ( Brian Tyree Henry) and Tangerine ( Aaron Taylor-Johnson). Conversely, one young female killer ( Joey King) is called The Prince. Though we do get that Ladybug is going through a career crisis, and his analysis sessions have turned him into a New Age affirmation machine, like a criminal Ted Lasso. Taken from the book by Kôtarô Isaka, it’s hard to say what, if anything, got lost in translation.

The new action flick sees five assassins come to blows as they each carry out seemingly separate missions.

In the end, though, it's Lemon who saves the day. And so an almighty battle ensues, with Lemon now desperately trying to drive the out-of-control bullet train. Yuichi, we learn, is part of a crime syndicate headed up by the elusive crime lord named the White Death (Michael Shannon), whom Prince is hoping to take down. We learn that after he had landed in the sea, he killed off the man he had been battling and soon came across, of all things, a truck transporting tangerines – a nice nod to his fallen comrade, who had died while still on the train. There's an awful lot going on, in other words. Earlier on, we were told that the White Death has for a long time been mourning the death of his wife, who died after she was caught up in an assassination attempt aimed at him, and it turned out that he was eager to ensure everyone who could in any way be considered responsible for her death was on the train – predicting that they would end up in a battle and kill each other.

Sony's R-rated action comedy starring Brad Pitt is projected to lead the charts with a $26 million-plus opening.

Meanwhile, Universal’s “Easter Sunday” has a much lower bar to clear with a $17 million budget, as projections have the film earning a $5-$7 million opening with a chance to stretch to $9 million. Reviews for “Bullet Train” have been mixed with a 57% Rotten Tomatoes score, but Sony is banking on the film legging out through August with no major competition coming up. After this weekend, none of the remaining major studio releases, which include the Idris Elba thriller “Beast,” are projected to earn opening weekends of more than $15 million.

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.

2022, R, 126 min. Directed by David Leitch. Starring Brad Pitt, Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Hiroyuki Sanada, Andrew Koji, Bad Bunny, ...

Fri., Aug. 5 Fri., Aug. 5 Fri., Aug. 5 Tuesday matinee Baby Day shows (first show of the day) are intended for parents and their children younger than 6. Fri., Aug. 5 Fri., Aug. 5 Fri., Aug. 5 Fri., Aug. 5 Every accidental murder is a source of exasperation, and Leitch goes to Rube Goldberg lengths to keep each absurd chain of coincidences plausible within the neon limits of the train's inevitable, if lengthy, trip. That's a lot of candy-colored characters intersecting along the length of the train, which doesn't give much time for off-vehicle digressions. Bullet Train. It's got two meanings, because it's set on a Shinkansen, the Japanese highspeed railway nicknamed the bullet train, and because there are lots of bullets being fired on the train. And make no mistake, Bullet Train is a really, really dumb movie.

Deadpool director David Leitch offers up an action-comedy with glimmers of amusement but that is too smarmy and convoluted to succeed.

(A cameo from a much-loved A-list hunk drew some cries of delight from the audience in this respect.) It constantly flashes back to moments or repeats scenes in an explanatory fashion that anyone without short-term memory loss would already know; it splashes titles and names across the screen in unbearable post-modern style. Fans of Deadpool, sub-par Guy Ritchie vibes, and films where 1/10th of the jokes are remotely funny: have I got a film for you.

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.

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Brad Pitt as "Ladybug" in 'Bullet Train.' Source: Sony Pictures Releasing. Reboots Are All the Rage These Days — Is 'Bullet Train' a Remake ...

"Some of the structures were structural, some of the poles were structural, some of them were facades, right?" "For what we do, it's just, I've been in the business almost 30 years, and it still blows me away." "That was piece one of the puzzle. "And we could remove them and take them and reclad them, reclad walls, put in set walls, to make this one platform feel like a journey of seven platforms." He took the reins and made that stuff happen outside the walls," David told the outlet. The 1975 film of the same name follows a gang of criminals who plant a bomb on the titular high-speed train.

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

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.

The summer is having its last stand for big studio movies this weekend with Sony's Bullet Train, the comic action-thriller starring Brad Pitt. Based on the ...

If the film opens well, it may be enough to push the overall weekend box office above $100 million after falling under by just $2.3 million last weekend, and this will likely be the last weekend for the next two months that even has the potential to cross that benchmark. If the film opens well, it may be enough to push the overall weekend box office above $100 million after falling under by just $2.3 million last weekend, and this will likely be the last weekend for the next two months that even has the potential to cross that benchmark. It’s hard to say where Bullet Train will end up in the long run and if it has the horsepower to recoup its $90 million budget. The hope is that the Warner Animation film will have strong legs a la The Bad Guys, which went from its $24 million opening in April to a $96.7 million finish. A good comp for the weekend is the Sandra Bullock/Channing Tatum starrer David Leitch (former stuntman for Pitt as well as director of Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, Nobody, and uncredited co-director on the first John Wick) directs, and the large cast also includes Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Brian Tyree Henry.

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.