Review: BulletTrain’s unrelenting, dated brand of humor is dead on arrival.
film franchise is that its entire style of humor is a dusty holdover from the late 1990s, back when “snark” had yet to become a household term. How did something so dated resonate with a present-day audience? I had the same question while watching. Nearly every single gag in this belabored action film is a wheezy relic from a post-The film is based on a popular, and acclaimed, Japanese novel by—and, in improvisatory fashion, by the actors under Leitch’s command.
plays a semi-reformed criminal-for-hire codenamed Ladybug, which is of course a joke, because why would a man be called something so delicate and feminine? He’s been away from his career for a bit, seeking clarity and betterment in self-help reading and therapy.regards this as some sort of newfangled practice, as if this was a 1970s comedy about neurotic New Yorkers. Ladybug wants only to get his job done—retrieving a briefcase on the titular vehicle—and get on with his life.
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