Wednesday with a Bullet

Some thoughts about recent viewing.

The water bottle ties everything together man.

Bullet Train is great fun for anyone interested in imaginative action, explicit ultraviolence, black humor, and Brad Pitt. If you don’t care for any of these things, the film is not for you.

The plot, such as it is, involves the interactions of six or seven assassins who find themselves on the same train from Tokyo to Kyoto, and are then obliged for a whole host of reasons to target one another. The ac...