Why Does the Comic Nihilism of “Bullet Train” Feel So Labored?

Asked why he chose to wear a skirt to the Los Angeles première of his latest film, “Bullet Train,” Brad Pitt replied, “We’re all going to die, so let’s mess it up.” An excellent point. With geopolitical and ecological crises set to deepen, I am already looking forward to whatever Chanel creation Pitt will sport at the Oscars of 2023.

The film is directed by David Leitch, and it comes with a central kick: all the homicidal specialists are on a train, running from Tokyo to Kyoto. Though superfast, as befits the slam-bang plot, the train is also illogically slow, stretching an itinerary of two or three hours into an all-night ride.

Compare, if you can bear to, another pairing: Charters and Caldicott, the English chums inserted by Hitchcock into the train-bound drollery of “The Lady Vanishes,” in 1938. A chorus of two fools, like Tangerine and Lemon, they were as mad about cricket as Lemon is about Thomas the Tank Engine.

The smoochers at the beginning are Sophie and her girlfriend, Bee . They have been together for ages—like, I don’t know,. Don’t waste any effort trying to work out who is, or was, seeing whom; just accept that relationships, in the world of this film, last about as long as an open carton of milk. The souring starts at once. Also, being in a couple doesn’t mean that you are well informed about your other half.

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The second half of this review is a bizarre takedown of “Bodies Bodies Bodies.” Lane sounds as vengeful as the film, but without the gleeful irony. Not surprised the headline avoids mentioning it

Because comic nihilism is a fucking bore. What a waste of a lot of great talent.

Saw it. It was crap

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