Premium Rush

 

Dodging speeding cars, crazed cabbies, open doors, and eight million cranky pedestrians is all in a day's work for Wilee (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), the best of New York's agile and aggressive bicycle messengers. It takes a special breed to ride the fixie (super lightweight, single-gear bikes with no brakes) and riders who are equal part skilled cyclists and suicidal nutcases who risk becoming a smear on the pavement every time they head into traffic. But a guy who's used to putting his life on the line is about to get more than even he is used to when his last envelope of the day, a routine "premium rush" run, turns into a life or death chase through the streets of Manhattan.

Is this what Hollywood has come down to? Remaking old Kevin Bacon movies from the 80s. They don't openly admit that this is a remake of Quicksilver but it sure as hell felt like it. And how in the hell did such legit actors like Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Michael Shannon decide to do this? It's not that the movie was horrible. It's somewhat watchable and short enough that you don't lose interest in it and what not. It's beyond predictable from the first scene and they try to mix it up by going back and forth over the two hour timeline covered in the movie.

I would somewhat recommend this movie to people. Like if you have absolutely nothing else to do and have seen most other movies out there maybe. It's not bad, but its not great. It's just kind of there.