Brad Pitt gets on the bullet train with Bad Bunny and Sandra Bullock and everything is fun

Tremendously funny, witty, with action, gags, black humor and twists in the credits too (don’t get up early), that’s right High speed trainthe movie in which Brad Pitt is facing bad bunny… and many no less bizarre characters.

But just like the actor’s power of seduction Once upon a time … in Hollywood has been tested in several films in a comic tone, remember a little forgotten It burns after readingby the Coen brothers, perhaps the best interpretation of Brad in a reid film? -, and here something emerges well, there is another reason why High speed train it is a success.

Apart from the rigidity of the interpretations of the entire cast.

is the script

They are the plots and deceptions, but also the correctness, the pride and the timing of the dialogues. The characters aboard the title bullet train in Japan, where most of the film takes place, are either quirky or bizarre. But everyone has his own story about him, and he has a reason, a reason for the way he acts and does what he does.

Pitt is a killer who has been a bit far from the action, busy going to therapy. When his boss (voice of Sandra Bullock) tells him on the phone about a new job, the criminal already has a new “name”: Ladybug, from the cows of San Antonio. He thinks he’s been chased by bad luck, and you know what they say about San Antonio vaquitas.

Ladybug stars in this violent black ensemble comedy. She has a zen attitude which contrasts with what she should be doing. And as much as he is willing to talk, if possible, with his opponents or with those who want to assassinate him, she must appeal to his intelligence and his muscles to move forward.

The task seems simple. You have to get on the title train in Tokyo bound for Kyoto and grab a briefcase. What’s inside?

Imagine.

And imagine everyone wants a briefcase.

The mission doesn’t seem difficult when Ladybug finds the briefcase. It involves getting off the train at the next station.

Mistake.

Danger awaits him, and High speed train It will offer enough hand-to-hand combat scenes, with fists, sidearms and firearms, some kitara – we are in Japan for a reason -, but also soft toys, bottles of mineral water and netbooks and characters, as we said. .. Singular.

There are two killers aboard – well, there may be more – named twins and named Lemon (Brian Tyree Henry, of Eternal) and Tangerine (Aaron Taylor-Johnson, from Nocturnal animals), who have to carry the famous briefcase and a young man. And a girl dressed as a schoolgirl (Joey King), from Ramona and Beezuswith Selena Gomez, and The act), And at some point El Lobo (Bad Bunny) will come aboard, with an unfinished business with … They’ll find out.

And many more, which would be boring to count and more fun to discover on screen.

Sometimes, High speed train remember the best Guy Ritchie, the one with Snatch: pigs and diamonds or the little seen rock rolls. Director David Leitch (Dead pool 2) has two peculiarities. He has been a stunt double for Pitt in many films, since The fight club a Troyand he directed, although he does not appear in the credits, the first of Keanu Reeves as John Wick. But he trusted screenwriter Zak Olkewicz, who had a not-so-reliable background: the road of terror part 2 (2021) to adapt the novel by Kôtarô Isaka. And yes, it turned out to be perfect.

The saying. It’s the lines of dialogue, the things you think are white that turn out to be black, the stumbles, the gags, the well-shot fights. All this does High speed train a show to be experienced at the cinema, without ever pressing the brake and yes the accelerator.

“High speed train”

Very good

Action / Suspense. United States / Japan, 2022. Original title: “High speed train”. 126 ‘, SAM 16. Of: David Leitch. With: Brad Pitt, Brian Tyree Henry, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Bad Bunny, Sandra Bullock. Rooms: IMAX, Hoyts Abasto and Dot, Cinemark Palermo, Cinépolis Recoleta and Avellaneda, Showcase Belgrano.