Film Reviews

Brad Pitt in an action packed, star-filled thriller and a daring, life-saving rescue from Ron Howard

Director David Leitch brings a stuntman’s eye for mayhem and a satisfying sense of comic timing to his latest high-octane action comedy, Bullet Train

Brad Pitt starts in David Leitch’s ridiculously entertaining thriller, Bullet Train

David Leitch’s ridiculously entertaining thriller Bullet Train is another of the stuntman-turned-director’s high-concept, high-octane action comedies, following John Wick, Atomic Blonde, and Hobbs & Shaw, that also serves as a copious star vehicle for a crammed ensemble that includes Brad Pitt, Sandra Bullock, Zazie Beetz and Michael Shannon, among others.

Unfolding like Agatha Christie’s Mass Murder on the Oriental Express, this hyperkinetic, neon-tinged feast of violence seems certain to find an audience among aficionados of ...