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'It's essentially a live-action cartoon, with high-profile cameos sprinkled in for added laughs,' Debruge noted.
'Stylistically, Leitch is trying his darnedest to channel the likes of Tarantino and Ritchie, even if the dialogue and mock-British accents aren't nearly strong enough to earn such comparisons.'
Standouts: Many reviewers singled out their praise for the 58-year-old Oscar winner, the fight sequences, and performances from Hiroyuki Sanada (pictured), Brian Tyree Henry, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson - but not much else
'There are no characters to root for': THR's David Rooney called the Japan-set two-hour flick 'soulless' and wrote it was 'so busy delivering violent action with a self-satisfied wink that its contorted plotting and one-note characters get real tedious real fast'
'It's essentially a live-action cartoon': Variety's Peter Debruge called Bullet Train 'a Kill Bill-like mix of martial arts, manga, and gabby hitman movie influences, minus the vision or wit that implies'
's Todd Gilchrist loathed the 'improbability' of staff and passengers sharing the train with the hitmen as well as the timespan of the two-hour journey between Tokyo and Kyoto seemingly lasting all night.
'This film is not just bloated, tedious, dim-witted, and glib, it's also redundant,' Gilchrist blasted.
'What proves to be more offensive is the film's unskilled attempt to inject seriousness into what should have been a cheeky summer distraction. It's fine for a movie about a bunch of competing killers to itself place no value on human life, and even to joyfully indulge in that kind of nihilism, but the way the filmmakers inject a sense of pathos feels about as earnest a's Alonso Duralde said the big-screen adaptation of Kōtarō Isaka's 2010 novel Maria Beetle a 'pretty much leaves no cliché of this subgenre unturned.'
'It's an airless affair. It's clear in the first 20 minutes that this movie operates in such a vacuum of smug artificiality that nothing that transpires could possibly matter,' Durlade wrote.
'Bullet Train is not a good film': IndieWire's David Ehrlich gave it a C grade, calling it an 'over-cranked story that feels like what might happen if someone typed "Guy Ritchie anime" into DALL-E 2'
'It can't quite hide its lack of originality': Screen Daily's Tim Grierson called it a 'self-consciously hip lumbering locomotive' that 'proves to be neither hilariously amoral nor liberatingly violent'
'Crash and burn': The Daily Beast's Nick Schager labeled Bullet Train 'dead on arrival' and said it 'more than slightly resembles Joe Carnahan's 2006 fiasco Smokin' Aces'
'And rather than lean into next-level snarkiness, Bullet Train builds to a place where, as the bodies start piling up, wes Tim Grierson called it a 'self-consciously hip lumbering locomotive' that 'proves to be neither hilariously amoral nor liberatingly violent.'
'But far too often director David Leitch indulges in a pse












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