Bullet Train

The Bullet Train cast is headlined by Brad Pitt, but multiple big names are on hand in this summer blockbuster adaptation of a hit novel.

Though with previous credits that include Snake Eyes and Warrior, it's fair to guess that he is going to be playing another assassin on the train. Michael Balderston is a DC-based entertainment and assistant managing editor for What to Watch, who has previously written about the TV and movies with TV Technology, Awards Circuit and regional publications. The Grammy winner first popped up on screen in F9: The Fast Sagaand also appeared in multiple episodes of Narcos: Mexico. We haven’t seen much of Sandra Bullock’s character, Maria, in the trailers for Bullet Train; as she is heard primarily in voiceover as Ladybug’s (Brad Pitt) contact. Funnily enough, King playing a character named Prince is a coincidence since her most recent movie, The Princess (streaming exclusively on Hulu), saw her play the titular character. Brad Pitt headlines Bullet Train as the main assassin, Ladybug, who just wants to take it easy with his next job. We also know that Tangerine works closely with Lemon, who is played by Brian Tyree Henry. She has no acting projects lined up at the moment, per IMDb (opens in new tab). Bullet Trainis based on the novel by Kôtarô Isaka and tells the story of an unlucky assassin determined to do his job peacefully after one too many jobs go off the rails. Aaron Taylor-Johnson looks to be one of the more prominent antagonists of Bullet Train, Tangerine, as the trailers for the movie have featured a fight sequence with him and Pitt that looks both intense and funny. Joey King is one of the many characters with a competing interest to Brad Pitt’s Ladybug in Bullet Train. And even though King’s young look and appearance in the movie may make it seem she is not as much of a threat, you have to think that’s just a bit of deception and she’s going to be as formidable as anyone else. Bullet Train could be the last time we see Bullock on the big screen for a while, as the actress told CBS Sunday Morning (opens in new tab) in March 2022 that her "work in front of the camera needs to take pause."

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What else has Logan Lerman been in? What else has Zazie Beetz been in? What else has Michael Shannon been in? What else has Hiroyuki Sanada been in? What else has Joey King been in? What else has Brad Pitt been in?

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.

We see Andrew Koji play Yuichi Kimura, a Japanese man in his thirties, engage in a critical conversation with his seemingly wiser father—essayed by Hiroyuki ...

He is helped massively by a cast that is firing on all cylinders and a screenplay that, despite its changes to many characters’ nationalities, retains the broad story strokes, darkly humorous spirit and Japanese setting in a way that Kung Fu Panda did by putting a bunch of Americans in China. But Leitch and company inject a million more bells and whistles to prevent the film from being a slog. Set in Tokyo at the outset, the action-comedy film Bullet Train begins in a manner that is perhaps now stereotypical of action films made by Westerners gazing eastwards.

While occasionally operating on style over substance, Bullet Train is an action-packed romp worth the cinema ticket price.

And ultimately, while the film has a central theme of fate, which cleverly links all of the characters together, it doesn’t seem to know what it’s actually trying to say on the topic. The editing, while usually hitting a good fast-paced tone, can sometimes be rushed to the point of being jarring. Now, the film’s many negative reviews aren’t completely off, as there are a few places in which the film is lacking. The film doesn’t talk down to the audience during this mystery, and even if its answers can sometimes be obvious, there’s enough little twists throughout to keep you on the edge of your seat. And while a train is by no means an original setting for a film, its cramped environment allows the action to play out inventively. These elements make the movie a visual treat, and accompanied by its energized editing, the action shoots off the screen like a bullet.

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But my litmus test for how lackluster the film is one of these cameos. But the best part of the film is the chirpy chemistry between Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Brian Tyree Henry as the Twins. Their bickering, partnership, and camarederie instils life in the film. Should you watch the film is an interesting question. In the end, this train wreck is only elevated to watchable status courtesy the fine work of an amazing cast, who all bring their A-game. Also read: Brad Pitt explains why he attended Bullet Train premiere in a skirt Like the successful superhero film, Bullet Train too, boasts of a quirk-a-second type comedy, zany characters, and a complete disregard for logic. If Brad Pitt’s latest film Bullet Train feels more like a Deadpool sequel than a standalone film, it is probably due to the fact that Deadpool 2 director David Leitch has helmed it.

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We get a brief glimpse of the real Carver, who it turns out is played by none other then Ryan Reynolds, but it's very much a blink and you'll miss it affair. Tatum duly obliges but only after asking Ladybug if this is part of a "sex thing." The final cameo – and the briefest of them all – comes when we are told that Ladybug is only carrying out this particular job because the assassin who was originally enlisted to complete it, a man named Carver, fell sick at the last minute.

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By this stage, both the movie and our attention are definitely flagging, and the film is going down a branch line to nowhere. The cast is all enjoying themselves so much, Pitt especially, that it prompts a nagging question: does the audience feel the same? That his hero is the complete opposite of the hi-tech bullet train just adds to the laughter. The train itself is essentially a device to give the story some much-needed structure. With scruffy hair and a bucket hat, he’s the least likely killer you can imagine and his newly found hippy way of life is reminiscent of a certain Il Duderino although, judging by the length of some of his fights, he’s not into the whole brevity thing. A big action movie that stands alone, without a big-budget franchise to draw in the crowds.

Sandra Bullock has a glorified Bullet Train cameo – but her presence elevates an otherwise messy action comedy. This is why Bullet Train 2 should be hers.

As Maria, Bullock is the foil to Ladybug’s weaponised incompetence, as he hyperventilates into paper bags and blames the situation on his chronic “bad luck.” Bullet Train is a disorienting ride that grows more tedious with every passing stop. With Speed, The Heat and Gravity under her belt, she's proved she's more than capable of carrying an action franchise. Anyone expecting a lot of Sandra Bullock in Bullet Train should lower their expectations now.

Gleaming like a fake Rolex purchased off Columbus Square sometime during the Clinton administration, Bullet Train unspools like a knockoff from an entirely ...

But divorced from that film’s incisive intelligence and creative ambitions, it feels like he’s phoning it in— gently cresting on the first turn of the last leg in his glorious nearly 35-year-career as a film idol. When the film works, the uninspired dialogue’s quick delivery serves as a rhythm track propelling the action forward—more the snare drum of Bullet Train’s frenzied song than its lyrics. Particularly noisome is Lemon’s obsession with the Thomas the Tank Engine series—he identifies someone’s personality by connecting them to characters in the books. One of Pitt’s most reliable attributes, his comedy, is particularly off point; he accentuates punchlines, mugs for the camera, and at one point has to flail about with a highly venomous snake on his hand in a weak approximation of Jerry Lewis. Bombastic, over-the-top, and laden with a shallow irony that calcifies into an empty-headed cynicism, Bullet Train is the latest film from director David Leitch, one of the masterminds behind the John Wick phenomenon. Gleaming like a fake Rolex purchased off Columbus Square sometime during the Clinton administration, Bullet Train unspools like a knockoff from an entirely different era.

Reviewers were less than impressed by Brad Pitt's new action-comedy flick, set on a train in Japan.

"What it isn't, in any way, is deep," he added. "He's kind of our Buster Keaton. He's so talented and underrated even. This is a tourist ride to nowhere." "[Director] David [Leitch] and I had always been big fans of Jackie Chan - we'd been talking about him for decades. "Like its transportation namesake, Bullet Train is fast, slick, and shiny - but this is less intent on going directly from A to B than it is looping back around on itself in knots of coincidences and contrivances, as a cavalcade of contract killers clash in the carriages," he wrote. The adaptation of the pulp novel makes the characters "twice as eccentric as necessary", he continued, concluding that while "this may be a fun enough ride" none of it is "particularly deep".

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 movie "Bullet Train" starring Brad Pitt has failed to garner positive responses from the audience. The storytelling has hurt the movie.

The role of Lemon and Tangerine has been played by Brian Tyree Henry and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, respectively. However, Pitt is not the only assassin on the train with that mission. The movie's action scenes are offset by an uneven mashup of styles and smart-alecky tone.

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.

Also starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Andrew Koji, Hiroyuki Sanada, Michael Shannon, and Benito A Martínez Ocasio, Bullet Train—which was ...

That means it’s possible you will see Bullet Train on Netflix in late 2022 or early 2023. While you won’t see Bullet Train on Netflix before it releases on video-on-demand, last year Sony signed a deal to bring the studio’s 2022 film slate to Netflix during the “Pay 1 window,” which used to be 18 months after the film’s theatrical release, but could be even sooner, given that most theatrical windows have been reduced from 90 days to 45 days during the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, you may see Bullet Train on the Disney-owned streaming platforms around February or March 2024—mostly likely on Hulu, thanks to the movie’s R rating. Bullet Train may be on Hulu or Disney+ eventually—but you’ll have to wait. Right now, the only place to watch Bullet Train is in a movie theater when it opens on Friday, August 5. So how can you watch Bullet Train at home?

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.

Grosse Pointe Blank meets Looney Tunes (on a train) in this gleefully silly hitman black comedy.

The final showdown goes on a bit, but just when you think Bullet Train is running out of steam (last one I promise) the film serves up another bananas stylistic flourish. Bullet Train is in theaters now and it's just a hell of a fun time at the movies, OK? Worst of all is the endless parade of dead wives. Viewing Bullet Train as a slapstick popcorn confection, it's easier to forgive the film's failings. But you know what: you can buy me a ticket and I'll meet you on the platform, because Bullet Train is a blast. If you call your movie Bullet Train, you're setting reviewers on a one-way track to using all the train-related puns in the book.

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).

BULLET TRAIN is exactly what you expect - fast-paced, exhilarating, and a good time. Learn more about the movie, based on the book by Kōtarō Isaka.

You will laugh, you will cheer, and you will be entertained by BULLET TRAIN. No matter how many action movies you may have seen before, BULLET TRAIN is one of a kind. Bullet trains travel at incredibly fast speeds and are used as a means of public transportation in Japan. BULLET TRAIN mainly takes place on the titular vehicle, and with this setting, the audience is taken on a journey that is energetic and fun. There are plenty of action movies that have come and gone over the last couple of years, but BULLET TRAIN is a return to form for what a summer blockbuster can be.

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.

Aaron Taylor Johnson was taken to hospital after an accident while filming a stunt for new film Bullet Train.

And then I came back and was like “Should we go again?” And I literally went wham, passed out. ‘Because I got all scrawny and lean for this, so I basically had low blood sugar levels.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson had a little chunk taken out of his hand, but that's not all.

But it sounds like the action got a little out of hand, because one of the "Bullet Train" fight scenes actually put Aaron Taylor-Johnson in the hospital. A little while back, I spoke to Alexander Skarsgård's "The Northman" trainer Magnus Lygdbäck, who said that you have to balance nutrition and workouts. David Leitch's latest action film " Bullet Train" is about to hit theaters.

A fight scene from upcoming Brad Pitt flick "Bullet Train" left co-star Aaron Taylor-Johnson passed out on set, ultimately resulting in his hospitalization.

“A decade of marriage,” he went on. You gotta go get stitches at the hospital.’ So then I spent the night in the hospital,” he added. And the one sharp bit of the corner where there wasn’t any padding took a chunk out of my hand.

A big-screen spectacle optimized for the theatrical experience, Sony's Bullet Train arrives in theaters this August with a point to prove at the box office.

It’s the sort of movie where we make it worth the effort of going to the cinema. The film delivers on that challenge because we focused on talent, a fun tone, and defining character moments within those sequences—so you’re learning something about a character as the fight resolves, or you’re adding to the stakes of one of the characters as the fight develops. I love the challenge of opening a summer movie with a lesser-known I.P., a film we had so much freedom in making, and proving that it can be successful and that we need to continue making this kind of movie.I had incredible experiences working with established franchises and doing sequels. Things are always going wrong for him in his movies, and the fight scenes are a result of that. My team will shoot what we call “Stunt This,” where we choreograph, edit, and shoot a fight on video multiple times so we can look at different iterations of it and see what’s working and what isn’t. That’s something we do before we bring a scene to the actors to train them for it. The choreography we did is designed for the characters and the incredibly fun and irreverent tone in this movie. We also wanted to keep a lot of the Japanese elements in the book, such as the characters played by Hiroyuki Sanada and Andrew Koji That’s where the real homage to the original work lies. John Wick is an exception to that trend and so is another film you made, Atomic Blonde. There aren’t many others on that list—George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road and Gareth Evans’s The Raid: Redemption come to mind—action movies that bring a fresh take on the genres and are best experienced in a movie theater. Isaka has been super gracious and supportive of the film and was excited that we set out to make a global version of his book with the international cast. I’d love to see a more loyal, Japanese adaptation of Bullet Train that adheres to the novel—but that’s just not what you set out to make with this film adaptation. That change allows the audience to go on this emotional roller coaster that I like to include in all my films. This is a type of film we don’t see very often: a multicultural cast in a big-budget action spectacle designed for theaters.

Action movie "Bullet Train" starring Brad Pitt is pulling into its final stop - cinemas - starting on Wednesday. The film sees Pitt's hitman character, ...

"We had to get off the train for the outer circle to come on. "We had the outer circle and people could only be on the train from the inner circle," Pitt said in an interview. Unbeknownst to him, he is not the only assassin looking for the case, or for revenge.

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Pitt remarked to GQ that his character’s return to action might be premature: “You know, you do a month of therapy, you have one epiphany, and you think you’ve got it all figured out, and you’re never going to be forlorn ever again. Ladybug interacts with the eclectic cast of characters as he jumps between train cars and dodges punches. Simple, that is, until Ladybug realizes he’s not the only assassin looking for the briefcase -- this ride is about to get bumpy!

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Most reviews have been echoing similar sentiments — Brad Pitt is fun to watch, and “Bullet Train” is a mindlessly stimulating action movie. Given the action in the movie, it may come as no surprise that director David Leitch was a stuntman; formerly Brad Pitt’s double in “Fight Club” (1999) and other films. Monday, “Bullet Train” premiered at the TLC Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, giving critics the chance to review the film before it premieres across the country on Aug. 5.

Ladybug just has the worst luck, which is arguably the most unfortunate character trait for someone working as an assassin. “My bad luck is biblical.

A man is stabbed, and a bottle is hit against someone’s head. A character is stabbed in the heart and hits the ground with a sickening snap of the neck. A man is Tasered. Cars explode in fiery messes. A bloodied boy is seen in the hospital, having been pushed off a roof by another person. In other general instances of violence, a person is bitten by a snake. We see many, many people die as these assassins fight, and they’ll die in a variety of gruesome ways.

Actor Brad Pitt credited legendary Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan as the influence behind many of the fight scenes in his new movie, “Bullet Train.

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