Bullet Train [DVD]

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The premise, adapted from Kōtarō Isaka’s 2010 novel, is simple: Brad Pitt plays a privately contracted operative, codenamed Ladybug, who is hired by unknown clients to execute various shady missions. Five assassins aboard a swiftly-moving bullet train find out that their missions have something in common. Bullet Train was released on 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD on October 18, 2022, with the digital version released on September 27, 2022. The movie delights in pitting its many trained fighters and killers against as many obstacles as possible.

Peter Debruge wrote that the film "feels like it comes from the same brain as Snatch [the Pitt-starring Guy Ritchie movie], wearing its pop style on its sleeve - a Kill Bill-level mix of martial arts, manga and gabby hit-man-movie influences, minus the vision or wit that implies. Lemon is obsessed with – I kid you not – the children’s book series Thomas the Tank Engine, and claims that it provides a blueprint by which to read a person’s core traits.

The results are frequently fun, especially whenever Pitt is on screen - blow-drying his hair with a tricked-out Japanese toilet, repeating his therapy mantras ('Hurt people hurt people'), and silently scuffling with Lemon in the quiet carriage. From the director of Deadpool 2, David Leitch, the end of the line is only the beginning in a wild, non-stop thrill ride through modern-day Japan.

It’s so imbecilic, you wouldn’t trust it to cross the road unsupervised, let alone negotiate Japan’s Shinkansen high-speed rail network. But now he's preparing for his latest job: snatching a briefcase from a bullet train that runs between Tokyo and Kyoto. We've got all your questions answered on how to watch Bullet Train right here, just read on to find out.

Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug's 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.

Spending most of his time watching new movies at the theater or classics on TCM, some of Michael's favorite movies include Casablanca, Moulin Rouge!But if all the combat choreography is contained within the metal tube of a train carriage, it soon starts to get a little repetitive, no matter how many samurai swords and venomous snakes you throw into the mix. Of the four most central characters, two are White men; otherwise, cast is quite diverse, including a clever, fierce woman, a Black man, several Japanese characters, and a Latino character. But as previous Japan-set action movies, notably Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Volume 1, have taught us, schoolgirls are rarely to be trusted.