Bullet Train

Bullet Train is a 2022 American action comedy thriller film directed by David Leitch from a screenplay by Zak Olkewicz, and produced by Antoine Fuqua, who initially conceived the film. It is based on the 2010 novel Maria Beetle (titled Bullet Train in its UK and US edition) by Kōtarō Isaka. The film stars Brad Pitt as a begrudging assassin who must battle fellow killers while riding a fictionalized version of the Tokaido Shinkansen. In addition to Pitt, the film stars an ensemble cast which also includes 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 wrapped in March 2021. Bullet Train premiered in Paris on July 18, 2022, and was theatrically released in the United States on August 5, 2022, by Sony Pictures Releasing. The film has grossed $238.5 million worldwide on a production budget of around $90 million, and received mixed reviews from critics.In Tokyo, Yuichi Kimura seeks revenge after his son Wataru is pushed off a rooftop and is told to board a bullet train later in the night. Meanwhile, former assassin "Ladybug" is assigned to retrieve a briefcase from the same bullet train bound for Kyoto after the previous contract, Carver, calls in sick. Ladybug is initially wary, as his recent string of bad luck during his jobs resulted in accidental deaths. Also on the train is a young woman codenamed the "Prince", who attacked Wataru, and two assassin brothers called "Lemon" and "Tangerine", who are assigned to escort both the briefcase and the son of a Russian-born Yakuza boss known as the "White Death", who hired them due to their roles in a job in Bolivia.Ladybug steals the briefcase from Lemon and Tangerine, but is attacked by another assassin, the "Wolf", who blames Ladybug for fatally poisoning his entire wedding party, including his newlywed wife. After a brief fight, Wolf's knife throw backfires and results in his death. Distraught, Ladybug stashes the briefcase away. Meanwhile, the Prince reveals to Yuichi that she pushed Wataru off the roof to lure him to the train as part of an elaborate plan to assassinate the White Death, as well as the fact that she has a henchman holding Wataru hostage in the hospital, with orders to kill him should anything happen to her. While Lemon and Tangerine search for the missing briefcase, the White Death's son is poisoned to death.Ladybug offers the briefcase to Lemon in return for getting off the train. Lemon suspects that Ladybug killed the White Death's son, leading to a fight in which Lemon is knocked unconscious. The Prince and Yuichi find the briefcase and booby-trap it with explosives to kill the White Death as well as a rigged gun as a second precaution. Ladybug encounters Tangerine and kicks him off the train, but he manages to climb back aboard. A suspicious Lemon shoots and injures Yuichi, but collapses after drinking water spiked with a sleeping drug. The Prince shoots Lemon and stashes him and Yuichi in a bathroom. Ladybug encounters yet another assassin, the "Hornet", who poisoned the White Death's son and Wolf's wedding party with boomslang venom. After a struggle during which they are both exposed to the venom, Ladybug steals her antivenom to save himself, leaving her to die.Tangerine runs into the Prince and realizes that she shot Lemon, but Ladybug attacks before he can shoot her, killing Tangerine with his gun. Believing the Prince to be innocent, Ladybug agrees to protect her. Yuichi's father, the "Elder", boards the train and sees that the Prince is lying and informs her that Wataru is safe (an undercover bodyguard had killed the Prince's operative). After she flees, the Elder tells Ladybug he is seeking revenge against the White Death, who killed his wife while taking over his Yakuza clan. They discover that Yuichi and Lemon are still alive, and the four work together to face the White Death. At Kyoto, Ladybug gives the briefcase to the White Death. The Prince, revealed to be the White Death's estranged daughter, tries to goad him into shooting her with Yuichi's rigged gun, but she fails.The White Death explains that every assassin on the train, as well as his son, were responsible in some way for the death of his wife (with the exception of the Wolf and Ladybug, the latter was hired to replace Carver) and that he hired them all hoping they would kill each other. The White Death's henchmen open the booby-trapped briefcase, which explodes, knocking Ladybug and the White Death back onto the train. The White Death's remaining henchmen board and battle the assassins. Their fight causes the train to hurtle out of control and crash into downtown Kyoto. Emerging from the wreck, the White Death tries to kill Ladybug but is blown up by the rigged gun. The Prince threatens Ladybug, Yuichi, and the Elder, but is suddenly struck and killed by a passing truck—later revealed to have been driven by Lemon, avenging Tangerine's death in the process. Ladybug's handler Maria arrives to retrieve him as he celebrates finally getting off the bullet train.

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