Premium Rush is an tidy, efficient little movie which generates thrills in a
relatively realistic fashion, which is to say that nothing blows up the
whole way through
.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as Wilee, a Manhattan bike messenger. He's just
trying to make his last delivery of the day, but dirty cop Bobby Monday (Michael
Shannon) wants the package that Wilee's carrying, and doesn't much care what he
has to do to get it.
The movie bogs down a bit whenever it gets too involved in the actual plot --
it would have been better to simply let the package be a pure McGuffin instead
of explaining it -- but the bike/chase scenes are exciting, and beautifully
photographed so that you often feel as if you're zipping through the city
streets yourself.
The movie doesn't call for any heavy lifting in the acting department, but
Gordon-Levitt's earnest confusion and panic are entertaining and convincing, and
Shannon is gloriously over the top as the bad guy, hamming it up in grand
style.
Hollywood movies usually come in only two levels of action: zero and
mega-franchise-explode-a-rama. This movie strikes a pleasant middle ground. It's
not trying to dazzle you with insane levels of gratuitous violence or ginormous
explosions, but it does exactly what it sets out to do, and it's a lot of
fun.
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