![]() (Maybe I should start riding bikes for work, because I hate ties, too!) The movie actually plays like an unofficial remake of Quicksilver, which also featured an upwardly mobile young man taking to the streets on his bike because it makes him feel better than wearing a suit all day. The action slows down as you see inside Wilee's head, and he envisions himself either squeaking through traffic or hitting taxicabs, baby strollers, etc.Īs cool as some of the sequences are, they service a plot that goes nowhere and feels derivative. Koepp pulls off a couple of mildly exhilarating chase scenes, and I liked the gimmick of Wilee seeing into the immediate future and envisioning various crash scenarios if he picks certain paths. (His character was billed as "Unlucky Bastard.") Premium Rush is directed by David Koepp, who helmed 2008's likable Ghost Town and got eaten by a T-rex in The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Do you remember that toe-tapper, "Quicksilver Lightning?" Yeah, I didn't think so. Heck, it isn't even worthy of a Roger Daltrey song, like the one on the Quicksilver soundtrack. The film includes a bunch of bike-riding and racing scenes that never amount to anything worthy of Gordon-Levitt and Shannon's time. As Bobby the crazed cop, Michael Shannon provides the film with a cartoon-villain performance that is enjoyably odd. Nope, things get crazy when he finds himself delivering an envelope from a former schoolmate (Jamie Chung) who has the deranged attention of a New York officer with a gambling problem. The movie wouldn't be anything if it were just about Wilee running around town delivering love letters. He likes speed his bike has no brakes on it. He plays Wilee, a law-school dropout turned bike messenger in Manhattan. Premium Rush is actually a little better than the useless Quicksilver, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt giving a typically capable performance. They didn't back in 1986, and they most certainly don't today. Nobody really gives a shit about bike-messenger movies. Premium Rush tries to cash in on the bike-messenger craze that is sweeping the nation, which has now merited two films, including the Kevin Bacon opus Quicksilver.
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