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Old Jan 7, 2023 | 11:28 pm
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Originally Posted by joejones
It looks like nobody has mentioned the 2005 Steven Seagal movie "Into the Sun." The plot is vaguely along the lines of "Black Rain" and the film is mind-blowingly terrible, but somewhat amusing if you can appreciate the comical value of Steven Seagal.
As a fan of martial arts films, I did see "Into the Sun", I even have it on DVD after finding it on sale at Walmart in the US for about $2.00 bundled with a few other Seagal films. Yes, it is a bad movie, I'm surprised that Sony Pictures invested $30 million to make this dud, especially at a time when Seagal's star had already fallen and he was at the "straight-to-DVD" phase of his movie career. The movie only grossed $175,563 worldwide. Subsequent DVD sales probably added only a few thousand dollars to that.

A more recent dud that I saw was "Bullet Train" starring Brad Pitt, a mind-numbing and hard-to-follow story that was actually filmed at a studio in Hollywood on reconstructed train cars. It's kind of a Tarantino knock-off, so there's a lot of gratuitous violence. Surprisingly, the movie made a profit but was mostly panned by critics. I'd take a hard pass on it and recommend watching the 1975 action movie "The Bullet Train" starring Ken Takakura and Sonny Chiba instead. At least you'll get the chance to see what an early Shinkansen with a dining car looked like back in the day, and it's far more exciting.

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