


BULLET TRAIN RAILS MOVIE
Pitt, a maximum movie star with a minimalist bent, is a hitman with no taste for hitting. And in his first job back after a hiatus of self-reflection and therapy, he goes into lethal fights with great reluctance, spouting self-help slogans like “Hurt people hurt people” in the midst of hand-to-hand combat. In “Bullet Train,” which opens in theaters Friday, Pitt plays a hired gun by profession but little else. Seldom has a movie star seemed to be having so much fun. in Hollywood,” delicious in “The Lost City,” Pitt glides into “Bullet Train” in an rarified state of cruise control. At 58, Pitt’s star power has never seemed so easy and so natural. But the only one that really matters is that last one. It’s a lot of ingredients that go into this candy-colored, battle royale of a movie. Aboard the speeding locomotive of “Bullet Train” ride at least five assassins, one venomous reptile (a snake on the train), countless glib Guy Ritchie-esque slo-mo action sequences, and one bucket-hat wearing Brad Pitt.
