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Bullet Train
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7.4Unlucky assassin Ladybug is determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug's latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe—all with connected, yet conflicting, objectives—on the world's fastest train.
Cast
- Brad Pitt as Ladybug
- Joey King as Prince
- Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Tangerine
- Brian Tyree Henry as Lemon
- Andrew Koji as Kimura
- Hiroyuki Sanada as The Elder
Themes
- mission
- japan
- assassin
- based on novel or book
- hitman
- briefcase
- train
- luck
- runaway train
- deadly snake
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Ratings
IMDb
7.3/10
519,374 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
53%
Metacritic
49/100
- Year
- 2022
- Runtime
- 127 min
- Genres
- Action, Comedy, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 2 wins & 19 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- David Leitch
- Screenplay by
- Zak Olkewicz
- Based on
- Bullet Train , by Kōtarō Isaka
- Produced by
- Kelly McCormick David Leitch Antoine Fuqua
- Starring
- Brad Pitt Joey King Aaron Taylor-Johnson Brian Tyree Henry Andrew Koji Hiroyuki Sanada Michael Shannon Benito A. Martínez Ocasio Sandra Bullock
- Cinematography
- Jonathan Sela
- Edited by
- Elísabet Ronaldsdóttir
- Music by
- Dominic Lewis
- Production companies
- Columbia Pictures 87North Productions
- Distributed by
- Sony Pictures Releasing
- Release dates
- July 18, 2022 ( 2022-07-18 ) ( Grand Rex ) August 5, 2022 ( 2022-08-05 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 126 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $85.9–90 million
- Box office
- $239.3 million
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Bullet Train is a 2022 American action comedy film directed by David Leitch. Based on the 2010 Japanese novel by Kōtarō Isaka, it centers around a group of assassins on a Japanese high-speed train who end up in conflict with each other. The ensemble cast consists of Brad Pitt, Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Andrew Koji, Hiroyuki Sanada, Michael Shannon, Bad Bunny, and Sandra Bullock. Principal photography began in Los Angeles in November 2020 and concluded in March 2021 amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bullet Train premiered in Paris on July 18, 2022, and was theatrically released in the United States on August 5. The film received mixed reviews from critics and sparked a whitewashing controversy over its predominantly non-Japanese cast in a Japanese-set novel adaptation. It grossed $239 million on a production budget of $86–90 million.
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