Bullet Train Reviews

To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since the trailers looked pretty cool, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, even though it was rather poorly received by the critics and even though it will probably be a flop at the box-office, I thought the damned thing turned out to be actually terribly fun. First of all, it was just so refreshing to see an action flick which had no link with some super-heroes or some other huge franchise. Of course, with David Leitch in the director’s chair, the action scenes, especially the fighting scenes, were pretty badass but I was above all sold by the wacky tone. Furthermore, even though there were many characters involved, I was rather impressed by the fact that almost all of them actually worked pretty well. The only exception was probably Joey King’s character. I don’t blame King herself, she wasn’t bad at all and I understand what they were trying to do with this young girl but this character just didn’t really work or, at least, I didn’t care much about her. By the way, it’s only afterwards that I noticed that Logan Lerman was actually involved in this movie. Eventually, their biggest asset was Brad Pitt though. Indeed, he managed to find a pitch-perfect tone and Pitt really found a tricky balance for this character. Basically, even if the guy tried to avoid violence as much as possible, he was never a complete loser though. Anyway, his interactions with the other characters were most of time just so much fun. All in all, to conclude, even if it was nothing really ground-breaking, it was still a really entertaining flick and I think it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.