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How to Watch “Bullet Train”: Is the Brad Pitt Movie Streaming? (TheWrap)

Bullet Train” is hurtling into theaters very soon. The action movie stars an incredible cast of characters with Brad Pitt's main man inside the speedy ...

Ladybug (Brad Pitt), who serves as a for-hire snatch-and-grab man, is asked by his handler (Sandra Bullock) to board a bullet train to Tokyo in order to steal a special briefcase and disembark at the next stop. “Bullet Train” will travel throughout theaters before landing on streaming, but since it’s a Sony film, it is likely that Netflix will be the first streamer to get Brad Pitt’s latest project. The movie adapts Japanese author Kotaro Isaka’s novel “Maria Beetle.” David Leitch directed the fast-paced film.

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Bullet Train review: Deeply derivative, and that's its appeal (Vox)

But early on, the assassin Lemon (Brian Tyree Henry), who deeply adores Thomas the Tank Engine, complains that all entertainment today is “twists, violence, ...

And some of it, I’m guessing, is just the state of the world, which is far stranger than fiction, full of twists that lack the pleasure of fictional catharsis. In the case of Bullet Train, the novelty comes mostly from celebrity cameos and the sight of on-screen blood during the fights, which is absent from most of our big-budget entertainment. The real point of Bullet Train is all of the stars and some cameos (Channing Tatum and Sandra Bullock, who I guess may have been in town from the Lost City shoot, and a very funny Michael Shannon in a significant role, and, near the end, a very brief glimpse of Ryan Reynolds). Also, a lot of blood. (The main reason is that blood shifts a movie from PG-13 to R, and PG-13 movies make much more money than their R-rated cousins.) At some point, you start to realize that it’s mostly about the crazy situations our heroes will find themselves in — and also figuring out who the heroes are. The plot is not really the point of this movie, but in brief, it’s about a bunch of assassins (played by Henry, Pitt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Joey King, Andrew Koji, Hiroyuki Sanada, Zazie Beetz, Bad Bunny) who all find themselves on a high-speed train on Japan’s Nippon Speedline, playing hot potato with a briefcase and taking calls from the various villains who hired them.

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Is Bullet Train on Netflix? (Netflix Life)

Wondering if the action comedy film Bullet Train starring Brad Pitt and Sandra Bullcok is available on Netflix? Don't worry, we've got you covered!

But can subscribers experience Bullet Train on the streamer? He must get on a bullet train headed for Kyoto from Tokyo and grab a briefcase. Many fans are eager to know if Netflix will be one of the stops on the movie Bullet Train’s route.

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'Bullet Train' Cast: Which A-List Stars Make a Cameo in Brad Pitt's ... (Newsweek)

"Bullet Train" sees Brad Pitt play an assassin stuck on a Shinkansen with other killers, and he is joined by several A-List stars in memorable cameos.

Eagle-eyed fans might notice that Tatum's passenger is reading a romance novel when Pitt encounters him. In the end it was just a way to thwart the assassins chasing him because they believe that Tatum is Ladybug. But they're not the only people he has to evade, as Ladybug also draws the ire of the train conductor (played by Masi Oka) when he loses his ticket.

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UK-Ireland box office preview: 'Bullet Train' looks for Brad Pitt boost (Screen International)

Starring Brad Pitt with a supporting cast including Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Joey King, Hiroyuki Sanada, Michael Shannon and Sandra Bullock, ...

The Irish pop group have previously been on the big screen in 2012’s Westlife: The Farewell Concert (£572,525 total) and 2019’s Westlife – The Twenty Tour Live (£972,272). With holdovers populating much of the chart, a similar showing for the new release could be enough to push it into the top five. Cinema Rediscovered and Park Circus are also continuing a roll-out of early cinema titles in its Pre-Code Hollywood season, with six venues across the UK and Ireland booked for the coming weeks including BFI Southbank, Dublin’s Irish Film Institute, the Glasgow Film Theatre and Sheffield’s Showroom Workstation. The other title to open in a bigger number is CinemaLive’s event cinema release of Westlife: Live From Wembley Stadium, with the concert film playing in 544 cinemas on Saturday 6, with encores in 391 on Sunday. It is directed by US filmmaker David Leitch, whose previous films include Atomic Blonde (£1.7m opening; £3.8m total); Fast And Furious: Hobbs & Shaw (£6.4m; £20.1m); and Deadpool 2, which with a £32.9m total is the highest-grossing film ever at the UK-Ireland box office in which Pitt appears, although he only has a cameo role. His highest-grossing film in which he has a key role is 2002’s Ocean’s Eleven, which opened to £5.1m on its way to a sizeable £26.5m total, with decent results for 2005’s Ocean’s Twelve (£12.6m total) and 2007’s Ocean’s Thirteen (£13.5m). In a 35-year screen career, Pitt has repeatedly visited the action genre – often in films with another genre element, such as historical action (2004’s Troy, £18m total), action-comedy (2005’s Mr. And Mrs. Smith, £13.6m) and zombie action (2013’s World War Z, £14.6m).

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Bullet Train movie review & film summary (2022) | Roger Ebert (Roger Ebert)

All are either paid killers or otherwise violent individuals connected with the world of crime, and the vast majority either have grudges against one of the ...

If nothing in the movie is real—either as a justification for the casting, or as a guiding aesthetic—why not just go full "Speed Racer" or " The Matrix" with it, and own the green-screeness of the entire project, and set it in the future on another planet, or in an alternate dimension? "Bullet Train" is at its best when it's a comedy about self-styled badasses who think they're free agents but are really all just passengers on a train rocketing from one station to another, oblivious to the desires of any individual riding on it. Henry and Taylor-Johnson's story gets there, due to the love expressed between the brothers even when they're breaking each other's chops, and the performances of the two actors have a direct connection with the audience despite boasting Cockney accents that might not pass muster in a college production of " My Fair Lady." (The greatest achievement in the film is that Henry manages to take his character's relentless comparison of everyone else to Thomas the Tank Engine characters, and make you not loathe the gimmick on general principle.) But as the script adds new fighters to the mix, and establishes that they're all tangentially connected, "Bullet Train" morphs into a half-assed but sincere statement on fate, luck, and karma—and Ladybug's constant (and often humorously annoying) comments on those subjects, voiced in discussions through a handler (Sandra Bullock's Maria Beetle, heard via earpiece), start to feel like an instruction manual for grokking what the movie is "actually" up to. All are either paid killers or otherwise violent individuals connected with the world of crime, and the majority either have grudges against one of the other characters or are the object of a grudge and trying to escape the consequences of past actions. They tend to have tragic-sentimental backstories or be purely malevolent—and inevitably, 30 years after the great Tarantino realignment of the early nineties, most of them are chatterboxes who will monologue at anyone who doesn't point a gun at their head and order them to shut up, and the tone mixes winking black comedy and poker-faced pulp.

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'Bullet Train' Review (The Bulwark)

Bullet Train feels a bit like Guy Ritchie's Snatch as envisioned by half of the team that brought to life John Wick, with a sprinkling of the convoluted ...

This is one of those films I wanted to like more than I did, indeed, that I can almost talk myself into remembering I liked more than I did. But Henry and Taylor-Johnson steal the movie as the twins; in a way, it really does feel like their film more than Pitt’s. Lemon and Tangerine are escorting the White Death’s rescued son and a briefcase (yes, the one Ladybug is after) filled with ten million dollars. Ladybug (Brad Pitt) is tasked with hopping onto a train, snatching a very particular briefcase, and hopping off the train again. Bullet Train frequently lets up, convinced that the convoluted internal logic of the plot is more important to us than seeing cool fights in a weird, enclosed space. That company became 87North, and 87North, alongside Columbia Pictures and Fuqua Films, produced Bullet Train. One imagines that Leitch and the team at 87North came up with scenarios they wanted to see and then built fights around them: “What would it look like if Brad Pitt brought a briefcase to a knife fight?” “How do you solve a Mexican standoff with deadly venom in lieu of handguns?”

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What Is Sandra Bullock's Net Worth? She Took Home $20 Million ... (Bustle)

Sandra Bullock has been called American's Sweetheart for decades — and now, with action flick 'Bullet Train' under her belt, her net worth is higher than ...

I'm still in the business, but I'm doing the other side that I love to do, which is the production end," Bullock told Tampa Bay Times in 1998 of her company. While her typical income per film at the times was around $10 million, according to The New York Times, she agreed to a pay check of just $5 million for the The Blind Side in 2009. As she told the Austin American-Statesman in 2009, “The acting is to fund what I do here in Austin. ...In the end, I might not make a dime. While the actor-producer has wracked up hundreds of millions, she may be ready to slow down soon. According to reports, the star received between $5 and $20 million for many of her later films. The actor launched her own production company, Fortis Films, in 1995. But she wasn’t just a comedy queen — Bullock also proved herself to be a capable dramatic actor and even picked up an Oscar for the 2009 film The Blind Side. Nevertheless, she still took home $20 million after the film was a box office success. Apparently, her income between 1994 and 2009 amounted to $150 million. And, with her own production company and a sizeable property portfolio, her net worth is nothing short of mind-blowing. With dozens of other action movies and rom-coms under her belt, she remains America’s Sweetheart to this day. In fact, the actor has enough spare cash to have donated at least $5 million to the American Red Cross.

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'Bullet Train' Speeds To $4.6M In Thursday Previews – Box Office (Deadline)

Sony's Bullet Train, starring Brad Pitt, saw $4.6M in Thursday previews which began at 3pm at 3596 locations. The pic is estimated to bring in around $30M ...

There was also a comedy showcase hosted by Jo Koy spotlighting up and coming AAPI comics and a Rise for Comedy VIP Comedy Night in partnership with Rideback Ranch which included more than 300 press, influencer and talent attendees (including Simu Liu, Awkwafina and Lisa Ling). That event featured a panel on Representation in Entertainment moderated by Kathy Lim (Director of Media & Journalism for the McCarthy Foundation), a comedy set including Ronnie Chang, Jimmy O. Yang. Among movies in regular release, Warner Bros.’ DC League of Super Pets led Thursday and the week with $2.2M and $33.8M respectively. Jo Koy also showed up at CinemaCon in late April leaving exhibitors in stitches and sharing how Steven Spielberg saw a universal comedy in the stand-up’s story. Universal fired up the marketing campaign for Easter Sunday back in March which saw trailer placements in front of Jo Koy’s sold out “Funny is Funny” comedy tour to entice his fan base to see the movies in theaters. High-impact digital placements ran on Meta (Facebook/Instagram), TikTok Top Feed along with a digital presence on YouTube, Female Lifestyle and Cinephile sites. Universal/Dreamworks’ Easter Sunday starring Jo Koy saw $500K at 2,400 theaters which began at 5pm yesterday.

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The Music of 'Bullet Train' Delivers Mayhem to Match Brad Pitt Thriller (Variety)

How "Bullet Train" composer Dominic Lewis delivers musical mayhem and twisty tunes for Brad Pitt action-thriller.

We would add wow and flutter, get things to bend, and just make it sound like an old sample.” Lewis even got to write the cheesy synth kiddie-show TV theme for the Momomon character in costume on the train. “It’s very raw and deliberately messy,” Lewis concedes. He came up with a series of songs as basic material for several of the film’s main characters. It’s about attitude, and I really wanted to convey that.” “It’s all vibe and no technique.

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Box Office: 'Bullet Train' Takes $4.6 Million in Thursday Previews (Variety)

The cast of cutthroat mercenaries includes Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Joey King, Brian Tyree Henry, Michael Shannon, Sandra Bullock and Benito A. Martínez Ocasio, ...

A24’s teen slasher “Bodies Bodies Bodies,” starring Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Lee Pace and Pete Davidson, is also getting a limited release in New York and Los Angeles. Sony spent $90 million to produce the high-octane action movie, plus millions more on marketing, so “Bullet Train” will need to keep punching tickets through the summer to justify its price tag. In addition to “Bullet Train,” Universal’s comedy “Easter Sunday,” starring Jo Koy, is aiming for a $5 million to $7 million opening in its debut weekend.

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All A-bored: Bullet Train - FilmInt.nu (Film International)

By Elias Savada. Style only goes so far and in the case of Bullet Train. It can't make up for all the other problems, especially the leaky script, ...

As if the film hadn’t already had a very bumpy ride as it hits the supposedly final stop, some of the criminal remnants decide to hotwire the train and drive it into a head-on collision and town-demolishing postscript, although no one seems to be injured and all the nearby homes appear to be vacant. One for the crash-and-burn pile. Grudges ebb and flow between these social outcasts, all between the too many shootouts and battles, inventive in execution but regimentally and mirthlessly connected by the screenplay. Actor/martial artist Andrew Koji comes aboard as Kimura, seeking revenge for the unknown assassin who tossed his young son off a Tokyo rooftop. And that’s only when he counterpoints the action with some irreverent song selections such as Stayin’ Alive. 500 Miles, and I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles. Unfortunately, it is Zak Olkewicz’s self-indulgent screenplay that is the weak link that torpedoes Leitch’s playful execution, but the pair don’t makes this film exciting enough to recommend. As the story’s complexity barrels on, observant eyes will get blurred when viewers try to figure out who’s watching whom across the train’s aisle — mostly to grab a metal briefcase loaded with oodles of money.

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Movie Review: 'Bullet Train' (KCCI Des Moines)

Anticipation. It's not just a Carly Simon tune. It's also what can make being a film fanatic simultaneously exciting and frustrating.

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'Bullet Train' Speeds Towards $30 Million Debut After $4.6 Million at ... (Collider.com)

Starring Brad Pitt and an exciting ensemble that includes Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Joey King, Brian Tyree Henry, Michael Shannon, Sandra Bullock and Bad Bunny, the ...

Starring Brad Pitt and an exciting ensemble that includes Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Joey King, Brian Tyree Henry, Michael Shannon, Sandra Bullock and Bad Bunny, the film is directed by David Leitch and is expected to fetch $30 million in its opening weekend. The film began screening after 3 p.m. at 3,596 locations, and is probably the last tentpole of the summer movie season. Sony’s Bullet Train has signaled its arrival at the box office with a strong $4.6 million in Thursday previews.

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Movie review: It's an express ride to mayhem with Brad Pitt, Sandra ... (The Patriot Ledger)

All aboard! Brad Pitt leads a top-notch ensemble cast in the comedic action-thriller 'Bullet Train,' opening in theaters Thursday.

There’s a ridiculously high body count (17 in one expository montage), a bunch of creatively choreographed fight sequences amid the tight confines of the train and a poisonous snake on the loose. It’s not very original, and the more you think about it – a train full of hitmen trying to get off alive – the more the idea goes off the rails. Be warned: "Bullet Train" is not for the squeamish. Pitt co-starred in Sandra Bullock’s “The Lost City” earlier this year, and she returns the favor, playing Ladybug’s handler, mainly appearing as the disembodied voice in his ear, guiding him through the mission. Unbeknownst to him, an assortment of lowlifes, schemers and thugs are also onboard. Things get messy quickly for the Zen-following Ladybug. “You put peace out, you get peace back,” he says.

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Is 'Bullet Train' a Remake? Details on the Action-Comedy Film (Distractify)

Brad Pitt as "Ladybug" in 'Bullet Train.' Source: Sony Pictures Releasing. Reboots Are All the Rage These Days — Is 'Bullet Train' a Remake ...

"Some of the structures were structural, some of the poles were structural, some of them were facades, right?" "For what we do, it's just, I've been in the business almost 30 years, and it still blows me away." "That was piece one of the puzzle. "And we could remove them and take them and reclad them, reclad walls, put in set walls, to make this one platform feel like a journey of seven platforms." He took the reins and made that stuff happen outside the walls," David told the outlet. The 1975 film of the same name follows a gang of criminals who plant a bomb on the titular high-speed train.

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Bullet Train film review — Brad Pitt stays nimble in a second-class ... (Financial Times)

The actor's comic chops can't save an ultra-violent crime caper stuffed with self-delighted banter.

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'Bullet Train' Review: Ride and Die (The New York Times)

Brad Pitt plays an amiable assassin who gets stuck on a Japanese high-speed train with a motley crew of other killers and no easy way out.

“Bullet Train” has its moments, a few laughs, some smooth moves, but Leitch has done better elsewhere, including in the original “ John Wick,” which he directed (uncredited) with Chad Stahelski. A tale of vengeance, “John Wick” has an equally high body count, but it’s better structured, more modulated, and has a brittle veneer of high-mindedness. Again and again, the movie cuts away from the main action to fill in one of the characters’ backgrounds, which are never as engaging as Pitt et al. Freely adapted from “Maria Beetle,” a page turner by the Japanese author Kotaro Isaka, the movie was directed by David Leitch and written by Zak Olkewicz. As might be expected from a big-ticket studio item, there have been changes in the transition to the screen, including the commercially strategic makeup of the main characters. One man’s throat is slit with a knife while another is shot in the neck. The story is incidental; the vibe, Looney Tunes Tarantino-esque. Mostly it turns on villains fighting and killing and fighting some more as a loosey-goosey Pitt moves from car to car punching, joking, mugging, scheming and sprinting. The giddily violent bummer “Bullet Train” takes place in Japan on a high-speed train that turns into a theater of death.

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'Bullet Train' Might Be the Worst Movie Ever Made (Observer)

It's an action thriller about an army of incomprehensible assassins all trying to kill each other on the famous aerodynamic marvel that travels 320 miles from ...

The director is stuntman David Leitch, who brings to the assignment zero knowledge of form, craft or discipline. Did I forget to mention there’s also a poisonous snake onboard, slithering beneath the seats and waiting to strike? Brad Pitt, of all people, trashes his talent and diminishes his usual reliability as some kind of hit-man secret agent called Ladybug. It is never clear who he works for or what he’s doing on the bullet train in the first place, but he ends up being only one of a gang of cutthroat assassins who are searching for a case of money. One of the killers dies with blood pouring from his eyeballs while the soundtrack plays “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles.” You can’t make up this stuff. Prince (played by Joey King, one of the worst actresses I’ve ever seen on screen) may or may not be the daughter of the King of the Japanese underworld called White Death (poor Michael Shannon, slumming his way through the most abysmal work of his career). There’s another maniac who howls like a wolf on cue. Let’s hope that’s not a deadly promise for a series of unwanted sequels.

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'Bullet Train' review: Brad Pitt in a sexy, bloody crime comedy (New York Post)

In director David Leitch's "Bullet Train," Brad Pitt plays a mercenary tasked with recovering a metal briefcase with unknown contents from an ...

And Pitt’s chill character has embraced meditation later in life, and is a good fit for an actor who has relaxed a lot in general. Still, the film’s lightness will be a problem for some. There’s real energy and life here — not a mausoleum full of cash-checkers. The first one comes as a real shock and much of the enjoyment derives from guessing who will be killed next — and how. Leitch, who also helmed the knockabout first “John Wick” movie, has assembled a sexy cast that is willing to get weird. And, a warning to the squeamish, there’s a swimming pool’s worth of blood.

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SPONSORED: Enter to Win a Bullet Train Movie Poster Signed By ... (Crunchyroll News)

Bullet Train officially hits theaters in North America on August 5 (that's tomorrow!) and Crunchyroll is celebrating by partnering with Sony Pictures ...

In Bullet Train, Brad Pitt stars as Ladybug, an unlucky assassin determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Poster will be mailed to winner's residence. Bullet Train officially hits theaters in North America on August 5 (that's tomorrow!) and Crunchyroll is celebrating by partnering with Sony Pictures Entertainment to give away a very special poster for the film — signed by seven of the film's stars and crew!

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Even Brad Pitt Can't Lend <i>Bullet Train</i> Some Steam (TIME)

You know an action movie's bad when it saps your will to live. Bullet Train, directed by David Leitch and adapted from Kotaro Isaka's 2010 novel Maria ...

More enervating than energizing, this is the Sleepytime Tea of action movies. He’s regal, an action star with class, and he’s the one silken thread in this tattered monstrosity. In the sphere of roiling discontent known as the internet, the filmmakers have been criticized for whitewashing the source material; all the assassins in Isaka’s novel are Japanese. On the one hand, the casting of big Hollywood stars is the only way to get big Hollywood movies made. Then again, of all the performers in this sad, futile exercise, only Sanada commands attention: he appears briefly at the beginning, and in a few small moments in between, but his presence at the end jolts the movie into something resembling life. But his presence in the film is oddly muted, as if he’d just barely mustered the energy to roll out of bed and show up. A sixth player, the Wolf (Benito A Martínez Ocasio, aka Bad Bunny), enters the fray as part of a revenge subplot involving the venom of said snake.

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