David Leitch offers up an action-comedy that has glimmers of amusement but is too smarmy and convoluted to succeed.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 18, 2024

There’s no reason the adaptation couldn’t have either cast Japanese actors or completely rid itself of the origin country by putting the train somewhere else entirely. Both options would have been better than what resulted.

| Jul 16, 2024

Bullet Train is an exercise in tired, racist tropes and condescending Orientalism as it pushes for the imperialist notion that white people know how to do things better.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 3, 2024

Bullet Train’s driving engine quickly loses steam. Its runtime is never justified, especially when it chooses to prioritize odd tangents over cogent and streamlined storytelling.

| Nov 2, 2023

Bullet Train is bombastic and silly, but it rarely pretends to be anything else. Is it a great movie? No, not by any stretch. Is it a fun movie? Yes, but like the rails, the bullet train goes off, mileage really may vary.

| Sep 17, 2023

And let's just say with all these stunts, gore and adrenaline-inducing sequences, it is hard to be bored.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 18, 2023

As it poorly emulates Tarantino and Guy Ritchie, the action picture ends up as a cartoonish mess and exhausting watch more than an entertaining popcorn flick.

| Original Score: D | Jul 29, 2023

Bullet Train employs David Leitch's maximalist style in a purposefully silly narrative driven by frenetic action and distinct humor. Every second with Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Brian Tyree Henry is genuinely hilarious.

| Original Score: B | Jul 25, 2023

AWESOME. The last big ride for the summer that brought back the movie theater experience for so many people & what a film to end on. Widely entertaining from top to bottom that constantly gives you laughs, action, & insanity.

| Jul 25, 2023

Bullet Train is turbulent and chaotic but a thrilling ride nonetheless. Its illogical, blood-soaked premise may derail some, but others might find charm in its memorable cameos, wild hairstyles, and magnetic characters.

| Jul 25, 2023

Watching Brad Pitt completely flanderize into a human golden retriever who only recites self-help sayings for 2 hours and 6 minutes was insufferable.

| Jul 25, 2023

Bullet Train isn’t going anywhere fast. It’s self-indulgent and thinks it’s doing something entirely unique. The film gives itself far more credit than it deserves.

| Jul 24, 2023

I used “annoyingly fun” to describe Bullet Train because I don’t know what other oxymoron can best capture the delirium that transpired in its two-hour runtime.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 21, 2023

It’s a waste of an interesting premise, it drags after the first act, continues to hit new levels of monotony, and, ironically, never picks up the pace.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 20, 2023

Bullet Train is a mixed bag, worth seeing for action fans, but maybe at a matinee screening or when it hits VOD. There’s a tighter and better 100-minute movie in that 126-minute high-energy extravaganza...

| Original Score: C+ | May 3, 2023

With an A-list cast happily playing against type, a nonlinear storytelling approach, witty dialogue and a plethora of creative violence, Bullet Train plays out like an immensely satisfying upgrade of prime Tarantino.

| Original Score: 9.5/10 | Jan 1, 2023

A blast... The film works because Brad Pitt is a really funny and engaging guy.

| Original Score: A | Dec 16, 2022

Leitch helms his action with clarity and impact, creating a beautifully nonsensical thrill ride that could have been a trainwreck, but entertains to the end of the line.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 30, 2022

If Kill Bill: Vol. 1 is wagyu steak, this is a juicy dive burger.

| Nov 30, 2022

Strangely, this murder at 320kms per hour action comedy may be an embarrassment of riches in the talent department, but the execution leaves one exhausted by the trip, impatient to find their stop.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 25, 2022