Bullet Train

 

                                     Well, the end is nigh we are near the end of the year 2022 so many movies so little stupid-ness, of what is going on in the world today if you catch my drift. Usually when I see a preview of a movie I'm just like eh okay, I'm not really planning on seeing it either way, but once I saw an action scene of Bullet Train starring Brad Pitt, where him and Aaron Taylor-Johnson are fighting then takes a break where the train attendant walks in to offer them anything, I just thought that was a fun and unique spin that I've never seen in an action movie before. And now watching this movie all the way through I would figure that this would be a typical mindless action flick. But with the number of surprises, I never saw coming, I cannot help but consider this a great action movie from start to finish moreover the perfect action flick to finish off the year of 2022.

                                     Ladybug (Brad Pitt) is an unlucky assassin who is determined to do his job peacefully after one-to-many gigs has gone off the rails. Fate, however, many have other plans as his latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe--all with connected yet conflicting objectives--on the world’s fastest train.

                                     At the time this movie came out the same time I was on vacation, and in all fairness did not think much of Bullet Train mainly because it just came out in the theaters, and it was basically I do not want to pay extra when going to a movie that will probably waste my time. But again, after seeing the scene of the water break fight scene, I really felt that this might have some potential so as usual I decided to buy it on my phone and watched the movie all the way through. Furthermore, I thought that this was a cleverly thought-out action film from start to finish, also was a lot more than a typical action movie because you get to know each of these characters through the course of the movie, moreover, know their agenda as well and why their brought to a Bullet Train in Japan. And I am not lying that this was an entertaining action movie which leads to the question, why did everyone hate this movie? Hell Richard Roeper was the only sane movie critic out there that gave this movie a three and a half out of four stars, I guess the only conclusion I found out was that this was adapted from a Japanese novel and everyone complained that this movie was White washed (meaning white people playing foreign roles), for which true and fair but deep down you really shouldn't target this movie for that typical crime because Hollywood's been doing it for quite some time, I honestly don't like that concept but that's just how Hollywood is they will never in a million years change. Even the author of the Bullet Train novel, Kotaro Isaka defended the film by describing his characters as "ethnically malleable", maintaining that his original Japanese setting and context were irrelevant as they were "not real people, maybe they're not even Japanese". I have a rare few Brad Pitt films that I consider the best, though there are like so many films he made it's hard to specify in terms of supporting roles and starring roles but if I had to rank this movie when it comes to starring roles this would most certainly be in the top three of the best Brad Pitt films the first and second are of course Inglourious Bastards and Once Upon A Time in Hollywood. And really what makes him great in this movie is that he plays his character like a middle age Johnny Cage just a bombastic hilarious fighter that has a great sense of humor at the wrong place at the wrong time, after seeing this I would honestly put a petition for Brad Pitt to play the middle age Johnny Cage in the next Mortal Kombat. Now I am officially going to stop talking so, in conclusion this is defiantly an underappreciated action movie that needs to be seen by everyone, to those who are action fanatics I would highly recommend watching this great movie it is a great story with full of surprises from start to finish.