Richard Roeper from The Chicago SunTimes: “It has the feel of a movie concocted in a hermetically sealed Hollywood lab.”.

“If you’re craving one more variation on the well-worn theme of promiscuous bloodlettings accompanied by glib verbal filler, Leitch has served up a presentable slab of grist for an increasingly creaky mill.”.“A Hollywood action movie so mindless and star-driven that it’s almost impossible to imagine how it started as a book.”.“‘Bullet Train’ is not a good film, but Pitt is having a truly palpable amount of fun in it.”.Zak Olkewicz adapted the screenplay from Kôtarô Isaka’s popular novel of the same name. The reviews promise little in the way of cinema’s finer qualities, instead focusing on fight choreography and creativity in the methods used to dispatch assailants. He has worked his way up in the industry directing “Atomic Blonde” (2017), “Deadpool 2” (2018) and co-directing the first “John Wick” (2014) with Chad Stahelski. 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. His hopes of an uneventful gig are dashed by a train filled with other quirky, irreverent killers. Brad Pitt stars as an assassin named Ladybug attempting to retrieve a briefcase from a bullet train hurtling through Tokyo.

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. “ Bullet Train ” is rated R (strong and bloody violence, pervasive language, and brief sexuality) with a runtime of 2 hours, 6 minutes

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