Review: Bullet Train
Ever since I saw the trailer to this movie I was instantly hooked...then I decided not to watch it until three months later, but let's ignore that fact!
Point is I finally watched it and I have a lot to say!
This movie is absolutely incredible! Easily one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. It's incredibly inventive, funny, full of action, and never once did I feel it was getting boring.
And that's saying something since the entire movie takes place on a train.
I really admire a movie that can take place in a single setting and continue to be engaging.
The movie's character is Ladybug, played by Brad Pitt, who's tasked with simply getting a briefcase and then getting off the train at the next stop. Simple as that, but obviously it can't be that easy.
Ladybug doesn't get all the screen time, we also have Lemon and Tangerine, the two owners of the briefcase.
Lemon and Tangerine are tasked by The White Death to escort his son and the briefcase to Kyoto.
We then have characters like the Prince and the Father, also known as Yuichi. The Prince is the daughter of The White Death and is pushed Yuichi's son off of a building just to get him onto the train to frame him as an assassin so she can kill her dad.
Basically, the plot is kind of complex just trying to explain in text, but it makes a lot of sense when watching it. In short, everyone is connected to everyone else and they were all hired by The White Death in hopes they would all kill each other.
I know I went on a bit of a ramble, but I got it out of my system. The actual movie though was incredible. As I mentioned above it takes place entirely on a train.
I genuinely felt that this was incredibly original from most everything I've seen recently. A lot of movies have been feeling really stale lately and this honestly felt new.
That's not to say it was all good though. While I did genuinely enjoy all of the movie, not a single thing was boring, I did feel like there was a ton of exposition.
Almost all of the characters had some sort of backstory explaining how they got to the train, or where they were during a certain part in the story. Again, these parts of the movie were entertaining, especially Lemon and Tangerine's, but I just felt it odd that every character needed a backstory.
With all that being said though, this honestly was an almost perfect movie. One I would go back and watch with friends at almost any time.
This is one of those movies you could sit down and watch on repeat and just have fun with it. None of the characters really take themselves seriously and it's just fun.
It's a definite must watch.
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Bullet Train - Movie Review
Bullet Train – Movie Review
TL;DR – Several interesting ideas are going on here, but they never coalesce into something worthy.
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Rating: 3 out of 5.
Post-Credit Scene – There is no post-credit sceneDisclosure – I paid to see this film
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When you are making an action film, there are many different styles that you could employ. There is the grizzled machismo of movies like Rambo, the…
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The little details in Bullet Train (2022) I only noticed/payed attention to upon a rewatch that I absolutely adore:
Spoilers below
- the train cars are visibly numbered (the one Lemon and Tangerine are in has the same number as the one The Prince is in at the beginning - 3)
- the only time Tangerine is truly happy on screen is during the “counting to 17″ flashback
- Lemon visibly putting the Diesel sticker on Prince and it being there in all the following shots until it’s discovered
- Tangerine stealing the biscuits, two separate plushies on two separate occasions, a gun ... I’m pretty sure he nicked the Momonga glasses too (yet he’s the one to pay for the water)
- when The Wolf first sees Ladybug on the train, he immediately looks down onto the wine stain on his jacket
- Ladybug’s fake British accent as he opens the fake briefcase
- “Why don’t you tell them the story about how Gordon met Percy, and now Percy’s bleeding out of his eye-sockets.” not being random Thomas characters, but actually the ones that Lemon assigned Tangerine and The Son at the beginning
- Lemon calling Tangerine “the strongest and most important”
- Tangerine’s genuine concern when he finds Lemon unconscious at their table
- Lemon casually grooming Tangerine when they talk (fixing his tie in one scene, his pocket handkerchief in another...)
- Prince having curly hair just like her father in her flashback
- the otherwise always chill Ladybug getting furious over Tangerine calling him every swear word he knows when they first meet face to face (pretty sure that’s just Brad trying to hide his laughter) + Tangerine swearing throughout the whole walk through the first class
- when Tangerine’s phone rings during the fight with Ladybug and he goes to answer it, he still holds Ladybug’s arm and keeps his leg over him in some sort of loose hold, rather that getting all the way off
- Tangerine putting the plastic raincoat on during the bottle flashback
- just the water bottle being there
- Tangerine who ALWAYS has a comeback being at loss for words when The White Death tells him he’s going to kill him and his brother
- the whole talk about the bulletproof vest (Lemon saying it won’t protect you from getting shot in the neck, and Tangerine saying it would protect you from getting shot in the chest ... guess what happens later)
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