A review of the new action movie “Bullet Train”
I once took a bullet train from Tokyo to Kyoto but it was nothing like this crazy movie which looks like something that British director Guy Ritchie and American director Quentin Tarantino might have made if ever they teamed up for a joint production. In fact, the director is David Leitch whose last work was “Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw”, which might give you some idea of what to expect, but the over-the-top action and gory violence originate from the Japanese book on which the film is based.Now Leitch is a big fan of Brad Pitt (so I am) and he was Pitt’s stuntman on many movies (I was busy), so it’s not surprising that Pitt is the lead character in this adventure and he is eminently watchable as one of five assassins on a speeding train whose back stories are gradually interlinked as the narrative unfolds. I don’t think that I would be spoiling your viewing if I told you that the end of the line is not the end of the story and not everyone who looks dead is dead. Madness and mayhem.