Get_Jiggy41 t1_itojlg4 wrote on October 25, 2022 at 3:49 AM

Reply to comment by ToughJuice17 in Bullet Train is a fun movie! by [deleted]

She’s very, very attractive, so I can’t argue with you on that. But I didn’t even know she was in the movie to begin with, so her not being in it for long didn’t really hurt the film for me. It was simply the character itself. I think it would honestly have been better if the Hornet was actually Karen Fukuhara’s “flight attendant” character. She was quietly featured in multiple scenes and she interacted with just about every major character, so the reveal would have been way more satisfying. Unfortunately, I think the filmmakers tried to subvert our expectations by having a pretty well known actress featured in a bunch of scenes to make us think the attendant was the Hornet. They took a gamble and I don’t think it paid off.

ToughJuice17 t1_itokcme wrote on October 25, 2022 at 3:56 AM

Since I knew she was in it, I knew >!she had to be the Hornet. Since I was waiting for her, I was like "uhhhhh where is she? Oh she has to be the Hornet" Then after the reveal she is pretty much dead.!< But this is all my personal bias.

Get_Jiggy41 t1_itokwc8 wrote on October 25, 2022 at 4:01 AM

That honestly sucks that you knew the reveal was coming. They shouldn’t have advertised her face on the poster and should have just lister her name in the credits at the bottom of the poster. For me personally, the reveal also wasn’t great because I didn’t even know she was in the movie, so when she revealed herself, I was just like: “oh, this isn’t a twist. This is just some random character I had no idea even existed until now.” They definitely should have made the Hornet be Karen Fukuhara, because that would have been a legitimately satisfying reveal. But to be honest, I thought the reveal of the big mascot trying to pull the case away from Brad Pitt early in the movie actually had a point was pretty cool.