Bullet Train is a Top 10 Favorite now

In his 58 years, Brad Pitt. Contrary to popular belief, he should be too old to be smashing skulls and kicking asses, but Tom Cruise, 60, just broke box office records with Top Gun: Maverick, so here we are. Pitt has a wild ride from Tokyo to Kyoto on the bullet train, busting skulls and kicking asses.

Pitt plays affable former hitman Ladybug in Bullet Train, which is based on the 2010 Japanese comedy-thriller Mariabitoru (Maria Beetle) by Kitari Isaka. Pitt's job to steal a briefcase on the shinkansen evolves into an action comedy of errors that ends with a lot of death and damage.

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When you put many contract killers on a speeding train and set them against one another, deadly action and dark humor result. Bullet Train is directed by David Leitch, who also worked on Deadpool 2 and John Wick (uncredited as co-director).

Mobster Yuichi Kimura (Andrew Koji), also known as The Father, is traveling on the train. He is seeking retribution from the person who pushed his little son, who is in elementary school, off a roof and left him in a coma. That individual is the Prince, who is portrayed by the unusually attractive Joey King, whose agent must be the busiest guy in Hollywood. King, the lead of Hulu's The Princess, a kind of medieval Die Hard in which King portrays a princess who John McClanes her way through her family's castle under siege, is also the star of Netflix's Kissing Booth trilogy.

King's transition from romantic lead to action star is pleasantly surprising, and her portrayal of the manipulative, psychopathic kid from the book is more complex than the original. The Prince is out for revenge and is using Kimura as a pawn to pursue her true prey, the enigmatic and elusive White Death (Michael Shannon).

Rapper Bad Bunny's character The Wolf, a Mexican assassin, and The Hornet, a poison expert, complete the rogues' gallery (Zazie Beetz). You may anticipate some mayhem if you put a wolf, a hornet, and a snake—a genuine one, not a code name—in a small area. The characters attempt to shoot, knife, and strangle one another at various points along the journey, so there is absolutely no shortage of pandemonium.

The numerous plot lines imply that they will come together at the conclusion in a manner akin to Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels or Joe Carnahan's Smokin' Aces, but there is nothing quite so ingenious. Even though there are small flashbacks and hints thrown in here and there, the plot is as linear as a train on tracks and doesn't hold many surprises. However, when a water bottle has more backstory than one of the assassins, it serves as a reminder that this isn't a movie that takes itself seriously.

Even the casual moviegoer should enjoy the cameos that are interspersed throughout. The appearance by Channing Tatum in Sandra Bullock's film The Lost City as a train passenger who believes he is being approached is equally amusing as the one by Brad Pitt. There is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo that serves as a joke in and of itself, and a shocking character reveal at the conclusion.

Colorful, wild, yet fairly straightforward, Bullet Train offers an equal amount of comedy and action. There is an almost comedic homage to Jackie Chan in Pitt's refusal to use a pistol and the way he deflects knives and guns. Pitt's lucky (or unlucky, according to him) Ladybug usually tries to diffuse a situation with one-liners and quotes from his psychiatrist. It seems like a Japanese manga, so it might as well have been an adaptation of one.

If there is one thing that can be faulted with the movie, it is that more Asian actors were not cast in key roles. All of the characters in Isaka's book are Japanese, but only Kimura and his father, The Elder (Hiroyuki Sanada), are in Bullet Train. Oh, and a pitifully underused Karen Fukuhara from The Boys, who portrays a train attendant peddling refreshments to passengers.

The basic concept of the movie, that everything takes place aboard a moving train, provides many opportunity for cleverness. Fighting in a small, enclosed environment is a creative challenge, but when you have automobiles with a fully stocked bar and lounge or the occasional flashback to explain character backstories, the field of play opens up a little.

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