“Bullet Train Down”

“Bullet Train Down”

Movie Review

Directed by Brian Novak, 'Bullet Dry Down' is written by Alex Heerman, composed by Michael Shane Prather and Philip Ramirez, and has cinematography by Marcus Friedlander. It stars Tom Sizemore, Rashod Freelove, Ryan Youngwoong Kim, Xander Bailey, Carolina Vargas, and Lesley Grant.

Bullet Train Down begins when Jack, a genius inventor played by Xander Bailey, starts his first bullet train in America. As the train leaves, Jack gets a call demanding money or a trigger-happy bomb goes off. The train cannot go below 200 mph or it will trigger. Kessler, an ex-bomb disposal soldier played by Rashod Freelove, is on board and works with Jack to solve the problem. FBI agent Scott Madison, played by Tom Sizemore, runs an operation from the outside.

If the characters have a bomb disposal expert, there has to be a bomb, right? If Jack doesn't turn a hundred million dollars into cryptocurrency, it's ready to explode. Or if the train falls below two hundred miles an hour it will go automatically. At that speed, the train derailed.

Director Brian Novak and writer Alex Herman split the focus of Bullet Train Down between two groups, with Jack, Lou, and Holly, the train's engineer, at the front of the train. Jack bonds with his friend Scott, a big shot at the FBI.

The rest of the cast is in the passenger compartment, cut off from communicating with the front. This meant that Briggs had to immediately take charge of freeing the passengers trapped in the smoke-filled car by prying open the steel door with his bare hands. And that's a good thing because everyone else seems to gasp at them.

From there, on the bullet train down, Briggs crawls under and over the train to find and disarm the bomb. While he does that, the FBI executes a plan to get passengers off the train and onto a plane to find out who the bomber is. These types of films are very stable, like Briggs duct tape to keep a grip on the roof of a train.

If you think that's a stretch, the script has enough loopholes to drive a train. This involves standing next to the console and accessing the computer system they are locked into. Even though the identity of the villain is easy to guess, their purpose is how it makes them laugh.

Bullet Train is from Down the Asylum, and there's a good chance the CGI will make you laugh, too. Also, the look of the train is laughable as it is animated when it takes damage. It's more beautiful than a mocked-up helicopter crash twenty years ago.

When it's inside the train, Bullet Train Down isn't a predictable, plodding thriller. When it comes down to it, the CGI and green screen work are often unintentionally funny. This is definitely one of The Asylum's more recent efforts.

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