Brad Pitt is just one of many stars that makes up the Bullet Train cast, with Sandra Bullock, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Bad Bunny among some of the others. And then there are films that are so thunderously stupid they bypass guilty-pleasure status and end up as a danger to themselves and all around them. As Brits, we can also get behind the entire sequence based around the train's quiet carriage, as Ladybug and Lemon [Tyree Henry] engage in a silent but deadly tryst while trying to avoid the loud tuts of another passenger. The humour has a few misses but generally it is a pretty funny movie throughout, they also pay off everything that is set up along the way which makes it a satisfying watch. Discussions about possibility of finding peace as the result of a violent situation, although characters are rarely, if ever, successful at this.

And director David Leitch, the man behind high-octane stabathons such as Atomic Blonde, certainly knows his way around a fight sequence. An inventive close-quarters battle on public transport can be a thing of real beauty – just look at the bus sequences in Nobody and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings for two recent examples.There’s The Prince ( Joey King) whose innocent schoolgirl vibe turns heads when she reveals herself to those who doublecross her. Synopsis: Five assassins aboard a swiftly-moving bullet train find out that their missions have something in common.

But if all the combat choreography is contained within the metal tube of a train carriage, it soon starts to get a little repetitive, no matter how many samurai swords and venomous snakes you throw into the mix. Taylor-Johnson is a sharp-suited geezer who looks, like so much in this brash, hollow film, as though he could have been transplanted from Matthew Vaughn’s obnoxious Kingsman series.The story unfolds with a healthy amount of backstory and it is done so with a great deal of stylized swagger and gusto, proving to be a wide open canvas for the carnage and hijinks to spill out onto. The Blu-ray/DVD of Bullet Train (as well as the digital version), offers a number of special features. It could have been a more entertaining ride, but if you're in the mood for a decent thriller to pass the time, Bullet Train will get you where you want to go. Over time, these cold-blooded killers begin to realize that their various missions may have some common threads, though conflicts between them still have the potential to end in violence at any time.

Peter Debruge wrote that the film "feels like it comes from the same brain as Snatch [the Pitt-starring Guy Ritchie movie], wearing its pop style on its sleeve - a Kill Bill-level mix of martial arts, manga and gabby hit-man-movie influences, minus the vision or wit that implies. That's why we've added a new "Diverse Representations" section to our reviews that will be rolling out on an ongoing basis. Bullet Train stars Brad Pitt as a wisecracking assassin who is sent on a mission to obtain a briefcase; only it's not as simple as it seems.Along the way though, the American finds himself competing with a string of other eccentric hired killers - played by the likes of Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Joey King and the rapper Bad Bunny - who also have their eyes on the goods. He wrote: "The film's version of Japan, largely rendered in computer graphics, is clankingly inauthentic, while the script, adapted by Zak Olkewicz, veers between edginess by committee - lots of swearing and wannabe Guy Ritchie riffing - and sometimes staggering laziness.

Also on board is a schoolgirl who goes by the name of Prince (Joey King), who may be the innocent bystander she claims to be. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug's latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe -- all with connected, yet conflicting, objectives -- on the world's fastest train. Of the four most central characters, two are White men; otherwise, cast is quite diverse, including a clever, fierce woman, a Black man, several Japanese characters, and a Latino character.If you're not a Netflix subscriber, you can still watch Bullet Train at home by renting (or purchasing) it through digital on-demand platforms. Tangerine" ( Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and "Lemon" ( Brian Tyree Henry) are supposed to deliver the case, along with a warlord's son ( Logan Lerman), but they lose both. Sure, There Are Some Favourite Character Deaths But 11+ Or 11 Itself Can Watch It With Parental Guidence.