Bullet Train Movie Review: Brad Pitt Action Vehicle Never Really Gets You on Board
Bullet Train, as the name says, is set on the eponymous Japanese hyper-speed rail network, formally known as the Shinkansen. For a movie, that delivers two things: unmatched (narrative) momentum, and a confined space that forces its characters inside a box. But annoyingly, in what's partially a trait borrowed from the 2010 Kōtarō Isaka novel that it's based on, Bullet Train keeps pumping the brakes — literally and metaphorically. The former happens as the Tokaido Shinkansen makes one-minute stops on its journey. Rather…