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welcome back to my channel movie files we are back with a brand new early movie review and today we
are discussing the new action sony film with a star-studded cast we're talking bullet train
a film i got the chance to check out in theaters last night and in imax and by the end of this
video i'm gonna let you know if i think it's worth checking out and if it's worth taking a chance on
seeing an imax we're going to be discussing that and so much more in today's spoiler free review
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for you all let's talk about it in the comments so with all that being on the way let's get into
my thoughts here i want to start off with the director of this film david leach now you all
might know david for his work on working with the john wick film the first one he directed atomic
blonde deadpool 2 as well as hobbs and shaw and for the most part i enjoy those films but i will
say one thing about those films it really didn't have like you couldn't tell who the director was
right you could just kind of eject any type of action director in those films but four films
into his filmography david leach i think for me i like his style he has a style in this film it's
very high paced very entertaining and i would say this film and particularly with davis direction
it reminded me a little bit of george miller's mad max free road which in the sense of we're on this
train and we're constantly moving and that is kind of injected within the narrative there's really
never a boring moment it's always moving pieces there's always action going on there's these new
characters getting involved in the story so after like i said the first three movies i've seen in
davis is like how who is david leitch but i would say by this film he has a style and i enjoyed it
for the most part but as far as what would i say about this film in comparison as far as what are
you getting yourself into walking to this movie is not as good as these movies i'm going to mention
but there is some john wick isms in this movie for the sense that you have a bunch of assassins who
are trying to you know get this briefcase and at the same time trying to take each other out
so it has some of that going with it and a lot of gun foo and hand-to-hand combat and there's also
some kill build vibes in particularly kill build vol 2 vibes and i want to i don't want to give
too much away why it reminds me to kill bill but when you see the movie bullet train you'll know
why i'll just say this the kills are very over the top and it's intentional you know there's a
lot of samurai action there's a lot of blood and a lot of uh you know heads and decapitation there's
a lot going on in those apartments so i will say this film reminds me of john wick meets kill bill
volume 2 meets deadpool so that's kind of what you can expect when you get into this movie but
let's transition into the performances because this cast is absolutely fantastic and i can't
spend unfortunately 20 minutes breaking down each character but as far as standouts for me brad pitt
he is our main lead he goes by the name of a ladybug and when you see the film you'll
understand why but he is our lead assassin who has the world's worst best luck if you want to
say that but listen brad pitt is definitely having a good time and this whole cast is having a good
time but i really enjoy brad pitt he has at this point in his career he can do whatever he wants
obviously he has his own production company he's been the leading man several times dramas you know
comedies every now and then especially later in his career but action brad pitt is someone
i really enjoy he is really doing his thing in this film and i really just enjoyed his energy i
enjoy his character someone that's if you all have seen hbo's barry it kind of has some berry-isms in
this character where he is a a guy that doesn't really like what he does but he's good at what he
does right and he's also kind of playing into the absurdity of what's going on in this scenario so
i really enjoy brad pitt's performance also i want to give a quick recognition to jody king who plays
a particular character who is very overlooked and i'll just kind of leave it at that but i did enjoy
her school girl uh kind of innocence too of the film and she will surprise a lot of you all uh
but a character or i should say another character that really stood out to me and a character and
an actor i really enjoy and i love that he was in this film hiro yuki sonata i have been a fan
of his work for a very long time and i love that he's now getting his chance to be in these type of
films you know he was in in game and he's been in so many other great films he will be in john wick
four he plays the elder and he kind of brings the more seriousness to this very over-the-top
type of film and he's not in it a lot but when he is involved i really enjoyed his narrative
but the nvps the scene stealers are the brothers the twins and that is tangerine and lemon played
by aaron taylor johnson and brian tyree henry i'm telling y'all right now i want a spin-off i want a
a a prequel i want more of those characters that's how fun they were they're extremely funny
they have the funniest moments to me in the film they have some of the best moments in the film
and they really have the emotional heart in this film and when you see it you'll know why but aaron
taylor johnson is fantastic in this film i'm very excited to see him as craven the hunter because
he can show you you know he started off y'all remember kick ass where he came and we see him in
other you know films every now and then but aaron taylor johnson was fantastic and brian tyree henry
is just as great i really enjoyed their chemistry their brotherhood their trust for one another
their brotherly fights for one another it's just fantastic to see them in this movie and
like i said when you all see the film you'll know why i called them out but
finishing up my positives this film is fun man i had a fun time it's a fun ride it's very
self-aware extremely meta a lot of unexpected cameos and i'll just give you all this advice
don't go on this looking for this most integral storyline a lot of it doesn't make the most sense
but i think when you sit down and understand what they're going for you're gonna have a good time
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this film has a lot going on at points right again it's a very fun ride but sometimes i
think it took itself a little bit too seriously and the plot was a little bit too integral than
what it needed to be a little bit too complicated at points and i say that the points this film felt
like being on your instagram feed on your tick tock on your youtube where you're just scrolling
and scrolling and there's a lot being thrown at you right there's a lot going on in this film
throughout the narrative there are multiple new characters in this film especially at the
beginning there's a film within a film within a film right and i think they call that like a frame
story where there's like multiple stories going on at one time and and kind of injecting yourself in
front of the main narrative and that happens a lot especially in the beginning where you're meeting
a new character and then we're getting their backstory and getting their kind of how they
got to the point in the film and it was it was fun every now and then but sometimes it's just like
overwhelming like oh my goodness i can't really attach myself to a character because we're getting
the characters within themselves there's really i said brad p brad pitt is the lead of this
movie but he's kind of the co-star of this movie because everyone's essentially the lead of their
own story and it can kind of sometimes take away from a character growth and character development
because there's so many characters who has their own story who has their own narrative that it kind
of takes away from who are we really navigating this this film through so that kind of got
distracting very stylized again i mentioned it's very meta it's very self-aware but it's almost
too stylized it almost takes away a little bit too much of the substance within the narrative
and also i will say this it's two hours and ten minutes two hours and seven minutes or so
i could have went like another they could have trimmed off like 15 minutes of the film right
especially in that third act which it's fun it's very big and bombastic but it's almost too long it
was almost like oh my goodness when is this film when is this train going to end and lastly there
are some underwhelming elements in particularly i thought the action was great it was very bloody
which i enjoy in my action films but it was almost underwhelming to the sense of we're in tokyo we
have these assassins and there's a lot of gun food but the the the hand-to-hand combat wasn't
that great i'll just leave it to that and also there are some underwhelming characters that i
wish you would have spent more time with i think of michael shannon i think of zazzy beets and for
all my bad bunny fans out there he's in the film and he has a moment but he's not in it as much
as you all might want to so there are some underwhelming moments to those characters so
before i give you my score before i let you know if it's worth checking out if you stuck around to
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do i recommend you all give this a watch yes it's a fun ride it's a summer blockbuster with
some good comedy some really fun characters very smoking aces deadpool meets john wick kill bill
style there are some underwhelming characters the the action the hand-to-hand combat wasn't as
fluid as i would have liked it to be but in the day i had fun with this film and i recommend you
all give it a watch and in imax of all that if you get the chance to i'm going to give a bullet train
a 3.8 out of 5. that's my thoughts those are my pros those are my cons but i want to know
your thoughts let me know what you all liked about the film what you didn't like about the film and
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