Bullet Train, a film by Brad Pitt and Bad Bunny, tops the box office in North America.

Fast Train, the action comedy starring Brad Pitt and Bad Bunny, topped the U.S. weekend box office, albeit with a hesitant $30 million, Billboard’s worst weekend of the summer.

The film, which cost Sony Pictures more than $90 million, was somewhat affected by its “R” rating on the U.S. Audience Choice system, reserved for films whose content is inappropriate for minors.

With unique style “High-speed train” adapts the novel of the same name by Kotaro Isaki which follows a hitman in the midst of an existential crisis (Pitt) on his journey on a Japanese bullet train with the sole mission of finding a valuable abandoned suitcase.

What the protagonist doesn’t expect is that some of the planet’s most notorious hitmen are traveling aboard this high-speed train, each focused on their own target until there are quarrels, feuds, and even shared clients who end up making the journey. crazy. and bloody chaos.

Although the profitability of Brad Pitt is beyond doubt, because, as emphasized by the specialized portal Checkout Mojofilms featuring a well-known actor tend to do better in overseas markets, which are expected to benefit from the commercial appeal of Bad Bunny, the world’s most popular performer for the past two years.

For their part, American theaters are closing the summer premiere season with an opening weekend that grossed less than $100 million, something that hasn’t happened since 2021, when theaters were still operating under pandemic-related restrictions.

Behind “High-speed train” there was an animated “DC Super Pet League” with $11 million. No, director Jordan Peele’s latest offering, peaked at number three and $8 million in its third week after debuting with over $44 million. Thor: Love and Thunder and Minions: Gru’s Ride rounded out the list as the fourth (7.1 million) and fifth (7 million) most watched movies.

BRAD PITT BRILLIANT IN THE MOVIE

Convinced that “tonality” is what makes the film unique, the director does not deny the inspiration and takes as a reference “High-speed train”eccentricity Quentin Tarantino”with a little Guy Ritchie and a little John Woo.”

“I soaked it all up, but this movie is real and mine,” adds Leitch, who has already made his surreal mark with the second installment of the Deadpool saga.

Although the director attributes the recognizable style to “High-speed train”does not hesitate to pay tribute to the” instincts ” Brad Pitt to complete the completion of a character who went from a high school sociopath in the first script to a “self-help guru with a lot of problems”.

“He’s a good actor who brings ideas and as a director you have to embrace them,” he admits.

Pitt, as self-confident as he is anarchic, is the core of this film’s over two-hour footage, which also benefits from Joey King’s sass as the cruel princess and the complicity between Taylor-Johnson and Turi Henry as the murderous brother duo.

(As reported by EFE)

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