![]() Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Brian Tyree Henry (Tangerine and Lemon) were the characters which I was most excited to see, they played the east end cockney gangster/hitmen type characters. Brad Pitt is essentially the lead actor and probably the best on show. The characters were relatively varied but were quite generic and cliché. This was delivered better than I expected to be fair and plenty of the action scenes were enjoyable, if not incredibly farfetched. As you can imagine, almost all the action scenes involved in this movie were delivered on a train, meaning that the fight scenes needed to be compact and tight. Is it simply poor writing? Or is it down to the delivery? Or is it simply that a number of my favourite movies are heavy, witty dialogue-based movies and my expectations were so high based on several reviews, that I just felt disappointed by this? Either way, it didn't really work for me. I can't quite but my finger on why that is. Most of the jokes didn't land for me and the delivery of the fast-paced dialogue quite often would not hit the mark. If anything, it just tries too hard, far too hard. That was enough for me, I was going to give it a try and I booked a couple of tickets for opening day, something that I don't do very often. One reviewer compared it to Guy Ritchie's Snatch and the classic Pulp Fiction - Two of my favourite and most watched movies. However, having watched a couple of YouTube film reviews, I was pleasantly surprised to see it described as not just a brainless action movie, but more of a dialogue-based film with clever writing and fast paced back and forth. The trailer makes the movie look like a massive bloated action piece - Think Nonstop meets Train to Busan. ![]() The marketing campaign for this film is mental, I have seen it everywhere. With this in mind, it was almost impossible to not see parts of trailers for Bullet Train, whether that was on TV or YouTube advertising etc. I make a point of not watching trailers prior to watching a new film as experience tells me that rather than get me excited to watch a movie, they essentially give me an overly exposed look at a film with key plot points being shown.
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