Bullet Train reviews: not good

The coming attractions looked horrible.

No surprise. It doesn't look good.

You know the producers knew it was no good by the stunts they had to pull on the opening tour.

It doesn't matter what professional critics think. It's a fun summer action flick. No one was going for Oscar material.

It's getting praise from movie goers as very enjoyable. If I was into action movies it would be at the top of my list. I'll wait for it for home viewing.

Yes, R4, but the point of this thread was for trolls to shit-bomb Brad Pitt and try to diminish the box office for Bullet Train.

It may be fun but the trailers were absolutely awful. I thought it was a commercial trying to be funny at first and then realized it was a real trailer.

It's a summer movie that appears to be doing well so far. At least OP didn't add FLOP.

FLOP

FROY

Fun, funny film. Great action. Aaron Taylor-Johnson looks hot. What's not to love?

OP, damn you make up a lot of stupid threads.

[quote] It's getting praise from movie goers as very enjoyable.

Some praise--not an overwhelming amount.

It's got a 78% score from rottentomatoes, which is good, and is certainly better than the 54% it gets from critics.

But that's still unlikely to make it a hit.

I wonder if OP started the Elvis is a flop, that had 2 posts.

R12 100%

The PR boosters patrolling here and clamping down on opinions other than their manufactured one are both obvious and lame.

OP = Maddox

R14 I hope your life improves.

Honey, I don't think DL is Bullet Train's target audience. They would be looking for people that leave the house.

It was a fun, silly, escapist summer action movie. It’s exactly what it’s meant to be and gets the job done. And Andrew Koji is hot.

Pretty fun, actually

It was over the top and like a Quentin Tarantino movie. Lots of blood and cussing. I liked it.

Great fun

Ish terrif' dolls!

That is a very accurate comment, R20: the trailers make it look like a feeble attempt to recapture Kill Bill's magic. Tarantino is basically a living, breathing film recycling facility (he hasn't had an original idea in his life and all his films take built from snippets from other movies), but the results are usually quite good and enjoyable. Bullet Train just looks juvenile and very lame.

Unless it comes up on Netflix very soon, I won't bother to watch it.

The trailer made it look like a Jackie Chen movie as directed by Quentin Tarantino but starring white people and set in japan.

[quote]And Andrew Koji is hot.

So hot even though his character looks like a hobo in this film. And for older gents Hiroyuki Sanada who plays his father is still handsome.

LOL! I can see the Angelina Jolie stans furiously typing to give it bad scores at RT and iMDB. LOL!

They actually do this.

I saw the trailer and thought it looked mindless but fun. It reminds me of Escape from Pusan, which was really good.

Eshcape from Pushan!

Brad Pitt has never put asses in the seats like a REAL movie star.

Excuse me Tammy?

Saw it IMAX. It was trying so hard to be Kill Bill. Michael Shannon is the ____ Also look for Logan Lerman, Ryan Reynolds, and Channing Tatum in small parts.

I liked it better than Thor and Nope.

Gaga was smart to drop out (due to filming of Gucci.)

why's that fat black guy gotta be in everything lately?

RT: CRITICS CONSENSUS 54% Bullet Train's colorful cast and high-speed action are almost enough to keep things going after the story runs out of track.

I figured once the first John Wick movie became a huge success, wannabe movies like this would pop up eventually

How woke is it on the woke scale?

It’s already underperforming. Another waste of money by Hollywood.

“Bullet Train” is taking on modest numbers to say the least. Thurs-Fri is at $12.5 million. They’ll hit $31 million for the weekend, but that’s about $20 million less than they would have liked. A lot of passengers must be riding on discount tickets.

I think the appeal for these almost age 60 mediocre actors like Brad is waning. He even acknowledged as much recently.

Sony was predicting $30 million.

It's a decent performance for an original film with no franchise ties or multiverse shenanigans, but the film will have to keep chugging through August to recoup its $90 million production budget.

[quote] It’s already underperforming.

Um, no it's not.

‘Bullet Train’ Clocks $62.5M Global Bow; ‘Jurassic World Dominion’ Overtakes ‘Doctor Strange 2’ & ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Crosses $1.35B WW – International Box Office

Refresh for latest…: Coming in just slightly ahead of pre-weekend projections, Sony’s Bullet Train pulled into 57 overseas markets for a $32.4M international box office launch. When including the domestic start, the global debut is $62.5M.

The Brad Pitt-starrer rode to the biggest offshore opening for a non-IP studio film since Tenet, and is tracking similar to Murder On The Orient Express and Kingsman: The Secret Service.

As with Stateside, audience reactions are beating critical notes abroad, and there are still several key markets to come as the holidays continue.

In overseas play, the UK led with a $3.5M start, followed by France at $3.1M, Mexico delivering $3M, Australia rolling to $2.2M and Saudi Arabia clocking $1.9M.

‘Bullet Train’ Pulls Into Weekend Box Office Station With $30.1M Opening – Sunday Update

SUNDAY AM Writethru: Sony is calling Bullet Train at a $30.1M opening. Some rival studios saw it lower. However, knowing the Culver City studio, they like to underestimate, not overestimate, in their box office gross reporting. Worldwide was $62.5M.

Bullet Train made $12.6M on Friday, but that includes $4.6M Thursday previews. That means Friday grossed $8M. Saturday made $9.6M, +20% ahead of Friday, which is a very good sign for business. Some box office prognosticators believe that the David Leitch-directed movie can get to $100M.

The CinemaScore is a B+, which, interestingly enough, is the same as 20th Century Fox’s Kingsman: The Secret Service, one of the comps that was being floated around before Bullet Train‘s opening. That 2014 movie opened to $36.2M. PostTraks for the Brad Pitt actioner aren’t shabby at 82% positive and a 63% recommend. The pic always was going to hit with the over-35 demo, and that’s clear here, at close to 40% of the audience.

It was passably entertaining, but it tries SO hard to be a Quentin Tarantino/Guy Ritchie type of film, it's actually off-putting at times; the fact that nearly all of the characters talk with the same snarky, hipster voice means that there's nobody to root for. The theater was half-full when I saw it Friday night; the biggest laughs came from Channing Tatum's cameo.

It’s going to have a hard time becoming a money maker. Maybe if it grosses $300M

His last movie Ad astra also bomb so this time it’s official Brad is box office poison!

[quote] His last movie Ad astra

That was in 2019.

Brad is always a dud as the lead

Ad Astra cannot be compared to an action flick. Seriously, get real. Pitt has never been afraid to do quality films because they may not make money. Look at the brilliant Assassination of Jesse James or The Tree of Life. Look at his production company, Plan B. Pitt has always been willing to take chances on great scripts, great directors etc from early on in his career. He's been worth something like hundreds of millions for a long time now and money isn't the priority.

R46, Ad astra was his last movie as a lead and then took a break for a few yrs. This was suppose to be his comeback movie and it failed.

Babylon will also be a dud

R49, what are you talking about? Pitt didn't go anywhere. There was a pandemic which delayed films including Babylon. He's got a crazy ex-wife trying to fuck up his life both professionally and personally. Did you forget Once Upon a Time in Hollywood for which he won an Oscar the month before Covid lockdown?

He also did the Lost City in a much talked about extended cameo. Babylon is coming out around Christmas. Plus about a dozen projects he's produced since Ad Astra.

Brad Pitt’s “Bullet Train” left the station but didn’t go far. It was, as the Clash once titled, a “train in vain.” The total for the weekend was $30 mil. The movie cost $90 mil. Abroad, another $30 mil came in, getting us closer but not close enough. August is a long month, it’s possible other passengers will come onboard both here and in other locales.

Meanwhile, “Top Gun Maverick” is still in theaters and made $7 million this weekend. What? Maybe Scientologists are hypnotizing each other into going for a fifth time. Good film, but not this good. Not a film for the ages. Yet it stays aloft.

At least $ 62.5 million world wide. A flop, almost as bad as Dear Evan Hansen!

Just watched the movie. Quite entertaining. Brad looks really really good for his age. Bad Bunny and Aaron Taylor Johnson are so sexy.

It’s domestic gross is still less than its cost. I wonder if it will ever break even.

R34 says there are a lot of colored guys in it.

So obsessed with me!

I’ll wait for you in the Club Car.

[quote] I wonder if it will ever break even.

Movies are not designer to make a profit. Black ink is absolutely the last thing a studio will permit.

It's all a money laundry.

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Hay y’all haaaaayyyyy !

Seems like this was a modest hit. I watched a little of it, but not my type so didn’t finish it. Brad should do another Moneyball type of film or stuff like he did in 90s/00s, which were my favorites.

R55, you need to add worldwide dear. It's made money, or close to it.

What is this movie “about?”

International gross doesn’t matter because half the profit will go to the move theaters…

Domestic is what’s up and it failed…

[quote] nternational gross doesn’t matter because half the profit will go to the move theaters…

The 50-50 share is a myth based on a misunderstanding of how the revenue sharing works during a film's run.

The 50-50 share takes place well into the run when audience drops off. The major money is made at the very beginning of a film's run and the studios get the lion's share of that.

I just saw 'Bullet Train'. It's excellent.

He's a supporting actor, he really can't carry a movie. Then they surround him with a woke cast from a Bennetton ad and it's a yawner.

The Movie Industry is...struggling

It's a great film, easily the most entertaining so far this year.

I'd like to see a sequel involving the further interlaced adventures of Ladybug/Joburg, Maria, Lemon, and Carver, but I can't see how it could involve another bullet train. No one in their right mind is letting any of those characters near a bullet train ever again. ;)

It took nine weeks, with a lot of stops along the way, to reach $100 million domestic

I read that Bullet train will be the only movie to hit 100 million domestic till november.

“Barring an unforeseen breakout hit, this will likely be the only $100M hit for the four-month period between mid-July and mid-November, when Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is released. (October’s Halloween Ends could potentially reach $100M, but installment Halloween Kills fell a bit short with $92.0M.)“

This movie sucks. Not sure why it’s rates so high on IMDB.

Everyone seems to like it. I'll give it a go. Love Brad.

I’m not sure who likes it, R73. This movie is right up my partner’s alley, and he thinks it’s a big turd.

I saw it upon its theatrical release and loved it.

When it was National Cinema Day and tickets were only $3 I was going to see it again but it was sold out. I checked Twitter that day and overwhelmingly, people who saw it loved it and couldn't understand why it wasn't getting good reviews .

R75, critics love to tear down big names. Too much politicking in the critic game these days - both tearing down otherwise good films and propping up others.

R75, I believe the critics especially Variety had an agenda, Nope was released a week before BT and they were rooting for the movie hence overly trashing Bullet train.

Interesting, R77. Not following these things like I used to.

I stayed away because I’m exhausted by ultraviolent comedic shoot ‘em ups.

I like Brad, but I turned it off after 20 minutes.

Bullet Train was obnoxious from start to finish, though Pitt tried to steady it with his Everyman quality. I feel like I was tricked into watching a Guy Ritchie movie.

Just watched it on Hulu. It was fast-paced, funny, crazy violent, well cast, and deftly plotted.

Also, Aaron Taylor Johnson and Bad Bunny were hot as fuck.