Bullet Train Ending Explained: Why Was Each Of The Characters On The Train?

Bullet Train is, beyond Marvel and other franchises, the big bet in theaters for the summer of 2022. An action movie with a classic base but postmodern forms that try to mix thrashing with humor. All around a series of charismatic and cartoonish characters aboard a bullet train that is getting closer to derailing. It’s kind of like the adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express directed by Michael Bay and starring Jackie Chan (well, maybe not that big of a deal). The important thing here is that, as the film progresses, it doesn’t take long for us to join one thread with another until an elaborate puzzle is closed. The most normal thing is that, among so many characters, so much speed and so much action, we get confused and miss the occasional link between them.

Bullet Train Ending Explained

Bullet Train is one of those action movies that pose a stage and distributes the right pieces to give us action and entanglements during the more than two hours that the film lasts. However, as the plot progresses, we see that nothing is a coincidence and that there is a basis for these violent encounters. It all starts with a girl who asks a father to kill a mobster in exchange for not harming his son, some hit men rescuing the mobster’s son and the ransom money, and a thief who steal the briefcase with that ransom. But, in the end, all this was a simple trap, an oversight and part of a plan.

The White Death

Although he takes time to appear in the film, his shadow is elongated. Michael Shannon plays the Russian mobster who has taken over the power of the yakuza. However, he lives traumatized since his wife died in an accident. Of course, even accidents are to blame. Nothing that the passengers of the train expect and know was true, the objective was simply to bring them all together in the same space to finish them off. They all took part, directly, in the murder of his wife. Well, almost everyone. After a few sword strikes from the old man, he will die thanks to his daughter’s tricked-out pistol, just as she had foreseen.

The Tangerine And Lemon Twins

Aaron Taylor-johnson and Brian Tyree Henry are a pair of (according to them) murderous twins. His goal is to rescue the son of the white death along with the ransom money. They soon, of course, let the son die and lose the briefcase. Although they are held in high esteem and seem like the most capable assassins judging by their kill counts, they are there to die. One of his jobs was the one that caused the White Death to leave his wife alone the day she took the car… Only one of them ends up alive, although Bullet Train saves the post-credits scene to confirm it.

Joey King

This character is special because he is the only one who manages to be on the train without the knowledge of the White Death, thus adding two other guests to the equation. She is her daughter, envious of the attention her father pays to her brother, and ambitious to position herself as her heiress. She plans to threaten Kimura with the safety of her son so that he attacks the White Death. Trusting her luck to the extreme, she seems to get away with it despite numerous changes in her plan. After suffering her father’s contempt again, he takes the fake gun with which he will die. However, the tape closes with his outrage, better explained in the post-credits.

Kimura and the old man

For its adaptation to Hollywood cinema, Kotaro Isaka’s work has been westernized as much as possible, except in this revenge story with samurai touches and Asian actors, Hiroyuki Sanada and Andrew Koji. Although the film presents them trying to save their grandson from the clutches of Prince/Joey King, chance gives them the chance to take revenge on the White Death. Both father and son are the only survivors of the night in which he laid waste to the previous yakuza leader and took over from him as a leader. Decades later, both achieve their goal. They also neutralize without much trouble the murderer who was waiting to act in the hospital where his son/grandson is recovering.

Hornet and Wolf (Zazie Beets and Bad Bunny)

The assassin played by Zazie Beetz is there to kill the son of the White Death, guilty of making his mother leave the house that night. However, she is also on the train to die. The massacre at the wedding of the Wolf, the Wolf played by a Bad Bunny who also ends up dead on the train, united both characters with that of Brad Pitt, but also caused that work that distracted the White Death. And it is that the yakuza has taken care of even the smallest link of the “butterfly effect” that led to the death of his wife.

Brad Pitt and Sandra Bullock

Sandra Bullock embodies Maria Beetle, the voice and boss with whom good old Pitt vents about the commission singo in which he has put him. Pitt, aka Ladybug (ladybug), is there by chance, by sheer bad luck. The White Death wanted her partner to be there, played by Ryan Reynolds in a great cameo. This was the driver of the car that collided with his wife, the main culprit in his death. However, he skips the assignment due to illness, and there comes the good old Pitt, half-retired and having nothing to do with the whole mess. In the end, he makes it out alive and goes with good old Sandra, on his way to a sequel in which, hopefully, he has the same bad/good luck. We are so clear that Bullet Train is not the best Brad Pitt movie, but also that he is the best thing in the movie.