Now I'm curious which raises various questions about whether hitmen really exist in the real world or are they just fictional stories in films. This question arose after I watched a comedy film combined with action and thriller entitled Bullet Train.
This film was released in 2022 and has a synopsis of the story of 5 professional hitmen who gather on a fast train in Japan to kill the Russian Mafia Boss who has taken over the Yakuza called The White Dead.
This film directed by David Leitch stars Brad Pitt, Joey King, Michael Shannon and several other great actors, this 126 minute film gets a score of 7.3 out of 10 points according to the IMDB site.
This is a short story from the Bullet Train film
The film opens with a father named Yuichi Kimura visiting his son named Wataru who is being treated at a hospital and is now in a coma after being pushed from the roof of a building.
Then came an old man named The Elder who was Yuichi's father and Wataru's grandfather. The Elder said that what happened to Wataru was Yuichi's fault for not being able to look after his child well.
Full of guilt, Yuichi finally decides to take revenge on an assassin who pushed his son and is now on a fast train heading to Kyoto.
Then moving to Tokyo, a hitman named LadyBug who was on the phone with a woman named Maria, LadyBug herself was given the task of replacing Karver to steal a suitcase containing 10 million USD on a fast train that wanted to go to Kyoto tonight.
Upon arrival on the train, it turned out that there were already two other hitmen named Tangerine and Lemon who were tasked with guarding The White Dead's son and also a suitcase containing 10 million USD belonging to The White Dead.
Then on the train there were also other hitmen named The Prince, Hornet and The Wolf. The five of them have their respective tasks which require them to kill each other.
In the end, those who died in this brutal incident on the fast train were Tangerine, The Wolf, Hornet and also White Dead's son. At the end of the film The Elder and White Dead also get into the train.
They killed each other because they had a grudge in the past, finally after the fast train suffered serious damage and overturned in a village, now the survivors are LadyBug, Yuichi, Prince and The White Dead.
Here we are shown a little, it turns out that the one who hired the 5 hitmen was The White Dead himself, the reason is that the five of them were deliberately designed to kill each other because these 5 hitmen were involved in the murder of The White Dead's wife.
And the worst thing was LadyBug, because she was not one of the people who killed The White Dead's wife because she only neglected Karver's duties, who was the main perpetrator in the murder of The White Dead's wife.
And The White Dead also deliberately got his son killed because he was involved in the murder of his wife, and the fact that was shown again was that Prince was also the daughter of the White Dead who planned to kill her father because Prince was annoyed with The White Dead who always ignored him.
In this last scene we are shown The White Dead who wants to kill The Elder because in the past they were in the same group, namely Minegishi, The Elder himself was Minegishi's right hand man while The White Dead was the person who betrayed and killed Minegishi.
However, when The White Dead wanted to shoot The Elder using Prince's gun, the gun turned out to have been designed to kill the shooter because the bullet would be shot backwards, that's where The White Dead was also killed by being shot in the head by the gun he was holding.
Then Prince, who saw the incident, suddenly got hit by a truck carrying oranges, which killed him. A little flashback, it turns out that the truck carrying oranges was brought by Lemon, who survived the train accident. After stealing the truck carrying oranges, he immediately hit Prince because upset because Tangerine died because of Prince's actions.
And now the only ones left are The Elder, Ladybug and Yuichi. After Maria arrives to pick up LadyBug, who managed to survive the murder incident that night on the fast train, the film ends.
For the complete story, friends, you can watch it on Netflix and various other non-film sites.
My opinion about this film
This is a good film, I really like the CGI effects that are displayed in the film, every image looks real even without using any effects which makes us really enjoy every second of watching this film.
Every character played by great actors in this film is also very soulful, the acting of each actor, especially Brad Pitt who plays LadyBug, is perfect, in the film he looks like a stupid man who is always lucky.
The plot twist of this film is truly perfect, we have to be really focused and careful when watching it, because if we are careless we will not understand the real story that the director wants to show.
This film is also even more interesting because it perfectly combines comedy and thriller action throughout the film, even every character who is killed in the film dies due to ridiculous events which makes us unable to stop laughing at every scene in this film.
In my opinion, this is a good film and should not be watched by minors because of the many bloody scenes shown in the film.
Conclusion
Never betray and do evil to people who have trusted you, because karma applies and will definitely be rewarded someday, just like The White Dead who died tragically because they betrayed and killed their leader Minegishi.
Even the karma of betrayal that The White Dead felt also had an impact on his daughter and son who always tried to kill him. Keep being a good person because bad people have no place on this earth.
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