20 Movie Scenes That Should've Been Cut
6. The Wolf's Origin Story - Bullet Train
Bullet Train is a not-bad action thriller that's classically overstuffed, with many complaining that director David Leitch packed it to the gills with excessive, overdone flashbacks explaining the origin stories of characters both major and minor.
Case in point, Leitch devotes an entire three minutes to a flashback montage detailing the life and times of an assassin known as The Wolf (Bad Bunny). Across almost 30 years, we see his tough childhood, his rise through the criminal ranks, and the murder of his wife at their wedding.
The length of this montage certainly makes it seem like The Wolf is going to be a major fixture moving forward, but within two minutes of it ending, he's killed during a fight with protagonist Ladybug (Brad Pitt).
Building him up so much only for him to get bodied in record time is surely the point, but considering how ludicrously generic the overbaked montage is, it feels like a chore on every repeat viewing.
Plus, the film is already wildly overlong at 127 minutes, and little would've been lost by just cleaving this scene away or at least shortening it considerably.