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Bullet Train Explosion movie review: Netflix’s Japanese thriller is on the right track, but Dharmendra and Vinod Khanna have been there, done that | Movie-review News

Bullet Train Explosion movie review: Netflix’s Japanese thriller is on the right track, but Dharmendra and Vinod Khanna have been there, done that | Movie-review News

It’s a crying shame that Bullet Train Explosion — the new Japanese action movie on Netflix — doesn’t end with a Simi Garewal stand-in leading a choir of children into song. It’s the only minor addition that would’ve made an already enjoyable movie even better. Bullet Train Explosion is so closely linked to The Burning Train that if Vinod Khanna were to show up in his fireproof suit, you wouldn’t bat an eyelid. But it’s actually a legacy-quel to the 1975 Sonny Chiba vehicle Bullet Train, which was ripped off by not only BR Chopra, but also Jan de Bont, who directed the smash hit Keanu Reeves-starrer Speed. Glossy, fast-paced, and directed with a no-nonsense attitude that is reflected in its characters, Bullet Train Explosion pays tribute to the disaster movies of the 1970s and 1990s. The film is piloted by the experienced visual effects whiz Shinji Higuchi, whose past work includes two Attack on Titan hits and Shin Godzilla. Unlike most major Hollywood movies these days, and virtually every Hindi film that punches above …