Written by Luke Barnes
Summary
A group of hitmen and murderers gather together on a bullet train, each has their own mission.
I didn’t catch this one in the cinema so I was waiting for the digital release, and now that I have seen it I am somewhat disappointed. Not because it is a bad movie, because it isn’t, but because it tries to be two very different things and didn’t do either of them enough, and to make matters worse these two elements badly clashed with one another. The film certainly has charm but it also has a lot of issues.
The two things this film tries to be to me, is on one hand a Guy Ritchie crime film with the quippy comments and colourful characters and then on the other it tries to be an incredibly stylised action film ala John Wick. The issue with the former comes as the tone can’t seem to maintain its quippy nature throughout and at times tries to go serious and dramatic, this derails it. The problem with the stylised action is that there isn’t very much of it, the film really goes out of its way to set up all these oddball characters with different backstories but then realises after it has done that that there isn’t any runtime left. The action we get is fairly tame and forgettable.
Brad Pitt is still a strong lead, and in that he does make an interesting entry point into this world.
Overall, there are some things to like about this film, namely Pitt, but there are also a lot of problems.
Pros.
Pitt
A few funny moments
It has a nicely lively pace
Cons.
The tone doesn’t quite work
It feels mismatched
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