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‘Bullet Train Explosion’ Review: A Reality-Based Runaway Train Movie That Stays on the Rails
Shinji Higuchi ("Shin Godzilla") delivers an "Apollo 13"-style story about ordinary people coming together to resolve a blockbuster-sized disaster.
Even without a movie star fighting his way up and down the trail (à la “Bullet Train” or “Kill”), Higuchi ensures that this scenario is no less exciting, relying on quieter but no less affecting acts of heroism as well as an escalating series of set-pieces that will thrill audiences until the last story beat has reached the end of the line. Takaichi’s young protégé Keiji Fujii (Kanata Hosoda) is eager to follow in his footsteps, but is more easily distracted by passengers like Mitsuru Todoroki (Jun Kaname), an entrepreneur and social media star, and Yuko Kagami (Machiko Ono), a politician who’s trying to bounce back after a scandal. But when the perpetrator announces their plan on social media and asks for a ransom of 100 billion yen in order to prevent detonating the bomb, not only do government officials get involved but so do the Hayabusa’s passengers, working together to find a resolution that doesn’t end in widespread death and destruction.
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