Bullet Train review: An entertaining action-packed ride that eventually falls off the rails

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It speeds into cinemas this week.

, it's an enticing prospect and that's before you get to its high concept: assassins on a train.

Joey King is convincingly terrifying as the unhinged The Prince, possibly the worst of the worst in terms of assassins on board, while Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Brian Tyree Henry make a hilarious duo as cockney assassinsThere has been criticism of 'whitewashing' due to the fact the movie is based on Kōtarō Isaka's novel .

delivers some of the best action we've seen this year. The contained setting leads to inventive fights, often with darkly funny beats as Ladybug uses just about everything at his disposal to survive. The strength of the set pieces in the majority of the movie is what makes the final third a letdown by comparison. Hand-to-hand combat is disposed of in search of a big finale, involving copious amounts of CGI, and it's just not as impactful.

 

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