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- David “DC” Bolling @ DC’s Take
- Excerpt: Bullet Train hits some speed bumps in the plot, but it’s still a fun ride reminiscent of other over-the-top movies in the subgenre. Bottom Line: The action itself delivers while Brad Pitt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson & Brian Tyree Henry were the MVPs above all.
- Travis Burgess @ The Sacred Wall
- Excerpt: A great cast isn’t enough to save ‘Bullet Train’ from being overly glib
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: this bloated, soulless product boasts manufactured attitude trying to sell itself as hip with quirky cultural references, only coming alive with the inspired pairing of Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Brian Tyree Henry as sociopathic cockney ‘twins.’
- Derek Deskins @ Edge Media Network
- Excerpt: Its plot is a mess, its characters have simplistic motivations, and it doesn’t even approach anything close to reality; but I don’t care at all. It’s fluffy, brightly colored, action packed entertainment, and sometimes, that’s all you really want.
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: This action/comedy/thriller is a bit of a mishmash, but Brad Pitt is the zen-like calm that holds it all together.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: The cast is, on paper, terrific, but there’s nothing engaging in their bloody savagery. A misfire of a supposed action comedy, this mind-numbing mess is by turns grating, tedious, and infuriating.
- [New] | Mark Leeper @ Mark Leeper’s Reviews
- Excerpt: Even if the film is a little hard to follow, what you can follow makes this film a lot of fun.
- Nell Minow @ moviemom.com
- Excerpt: No one is better than Brad Pitt at precisely calibrating his own movie star charisma and here he plays off of it to hilarious effect. The acting in the stunt scenes is as important as the punches.
- Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: It delivers nothing we haven’t seen before. Yet it succeeds on charisma and energy alone.
- Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
- Excerpt: David Leitch’s cartoonish adaptation of ‘Bullet Train‘ is a loud, violent, messy action-thriller that borrows liberally from a handful of movie genres – thriller, actioner, whodunnit, crime drama – to decidedly annoying effect. The capable cast is far and away the film’s best feature though the action under Leitch’s command is disappointing lacking in creativity.
- Jon Partridge @ Cinapse
- Excerpt: An adaptation of Kotaro Isaka’s Maria Beetle, Bullet Train combines a neat premise, a beguiling cast, and a director deeply experiences in the action genre. Instead of these ingredients combining to great effect, the result is an erratic and overly wrought tale of strangers on a Shinkansen. One that reminds us how a sprinkling of stardust, can go a long way to saving a picture.
- Eddie Pasa @ Gunaxin
- Diego Salgado @ SoFilm [Spanish]
- Márcio Sallem @ Cinema com Crítica [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: E Trem Bala acumula ramos do cinema de ação contemporâneo dentro da embalagem apertada do veículo sobre trilhos mais rápido do mundo.
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