Brad Pitt's high-speed train is derailing, critics say

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Reviews mostly wanted to get off the bullet train, and many say the new fi Brad Pitt's lm goes off the rails.

The film, directed by David Leitch (Deadpool 2), is a Westernized big-screen revamp of a bestselling novel by 2010 by Japanese author Kōtarō Isaka.

Pitt plays a comeback hitman taking on a series of assassins, under the instructions of his master (Sandra Bullock ), en route from Tokyo to Kyoto.

The Guardian described it as "oddly exhausting and extremely unfunny".

"It throbs vigorously over and over again with dull and uninspiring choreographed fights, cameos that briefly stimulate interest, and place the non-bookmarks where the fun material should have gone", wrote Peter Bradshaw, in his two-star review.

"Pitt's good nature keeps him from flattening out completely, but i It has nothing to do with the script and the direction it got from Soderberg h or Tarantino or Fincher.

"And the Japanese decor is treated very superficially; there are Japanese toilet gags that should have come out in the 1980s. It's a ride tourist to nowhere."

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