There's more than a touch of Tarantino about this fast paced action thriller, which contains a great deal of excessive, cartoonish violence, relieved by lashings of dark humour, and a cast of larger than life villains. It's an entertaining way to spend just over two hours, as long as you have a strong stomach for the frequent graphic violence, but don't expect the story to make much sense, or it to have any depth beyond the level of visceral thrill. Brad Pitt holds the plot together, and Aaron Taylor Johnson and Brian Tyree Henry make a good double act. The attempt to give it a little more depth, by introducing a theme of the effect of fate on a person's life seemed unconvincing, though.
Review of Bullet Train
