{"id":23055,"date":"2022-09-30T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=23055"},"modified":"2022-09-15T15:41:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T22:41:42","slug":"nics-flicks-bullet-train-an-extravaganza-of-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2022\/09\/30\/nics-flicks-bullet-train-an-extravaganza-of-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Nic’s Flicks<\/em>: Bullet Train<\/em> an extravaganza of action"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bullet Train<\/i> (2022)
\n3\/4<\/p>\n

Bullet Train<\/i> is David Leitch\u2019s newest high-octane action extravaganza. The main thing that I like about this movie are the action sequences. Look, if you\u2019re going to see a movie that\u2019s coming from the man who brought us flicks like John Wick<\/i>, Deadpool 2<\/i>, and Atomic Blonde<\/i>, you know that you\u2019re at lest going to get some truly balls-to-the-wall action scenes, but, honestly, I think the action sequences here are some of the best-looking fight scenes I\u2019ve seen in a movie in quite some time. They cement Leitch as one of the finest action directors working today.<\/p>\n

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Another thing that made this movie was its humour\u2014this is an unexpectedly funny movie. A good example of this is the train fight scene that you see pop up in the trailer. If you\u2019ve watched that trailer, you know that at some point in the film, Brad Pitt\u2019s character Ladybug is having a fight with Brian Tyree Henry\u2019s character Lemon in the quiet part of the train they\u2019re in. This whole scene has a lot of situational comedy involved due to the two having a fight where they\u2019re not allowed to make any noise. This leads to an equally funny part of the movie that made me\u00a0 <\/span>laugh out loud.<\/p>\n

There are also a few celebrity cameos in Bullet Train<\/i> that got a lot of chuckles from the audience when I saw it in the theatre, and that humour element really works in the film\u2019s favour.<\/p>\n

Another thing that worked for me is the cast. Pitt is really good in this movie but the standouts were Henry and Aaron Taylor-Johnson. They play a pair of bickering sibling assassins, and their scenes drive a lot of the film\u2019s humour, especially from Henry, who has a whole comedic aspect to his character that I won\u2019t spoil, but it\u2019s honestly the funniest part of the movie. This is a superbly well-casted movie, and that cast adds a lot of comedic flavouring.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing about the movie that I disliked personally, but there are some things that people might take issue with. For example, the non-linear story structure can come off as a little jumbled, particularly when it comes to how each of the characters are introduced and their connection to the main storyline. Also, the movie\u2019s overly complicated explanation for events unfolding the way they do has some holes in it, and the main villain is not very interesting and comes off as incompetent at times, which will tun off some viewers.<\/p>\n

But, for the most part, Bullet Train speeds past these missteps and delivers to its audience a funny and action-packed experience, and I\u2019m happy to say its\u2019s well worth everybody\u2019s time and money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bullet Train (2022) 3\/4 Bullet Train is David Leitch\u2019s newest high-octane action extravaganza. The main thing that I like about this movie are the action sequences. Look, if you\u2019re going to see a movie that\u2019s coming from the man who brought us flicks like John Wick, Deadpool 2, and Atomic Blonde, you know that you\u2019re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,273],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-september-21-2022"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23056,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23055\/revisions\/23056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}