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  Review by DirkH ★★★ 12

  Premium Rush is just a perfect little 90 minute pocket of silly goofiness that does exactly what it should do, provide easy accessible entertainment.

  Now, to say I was a bit sceptical whether or not a film about bike messengers would be entertaining is a huge understatement. I'm impressed by the fact that they actually pulled it off. With fluid camera work, some excellent chases, Michael Shannon bringing the ham and the cheese as the villain and some fun visual gimmicks it has enough to offer to keep me entertained. Sure, the plot is wafer thin and the final act loses a lot of momentum, but it is charming and creative enough to provide a bit of fun.

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  Review by robyn ★★★★★ 3

  This is the fucking goofiest film I have ever seen and it is INSANELY GOOD. Holy shit, I haven't had that much fun watching a film for some time, I was just FIST PUMPING THE WHOLE FUCKING WAY THROUGH.

  So ridiculous, so cheesy but just FUCKKKKKK amazing. FUCK.

  Edited to say I HAVE NOW WATCHED 100% OF THE AARON TVEIT FILMS ON LETTERBOXD! SUCK IT DOUCHEBAGS!

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  Review by Logan Kenny ★★★★ 2

  in the way that Top Gun Maverick has likely made a generation of young people dream of becoming a fighter pilot, Premium Rush makes me dream of becoming a high-octane bike messenger on the streets of New York.

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  Review by CinemaCl🎃wn ★★★ 1

  An enjoyable, light-hearted, feel-good flick whose sole purpose is to offer an entertainment that's worth the price of ticket and nothing more or less, Premium Rush is a stylishly filmed, skilfully narrated & finely performed thrilling ride that may not have much going on in its premise yet does enough to keep the viewers engaged in its storyline for the most part.

  Set in New York City, the story of Premium Rush follows a bicycle messenger who's tasked to deliver an envelope to a designated address but soon finds himself being chased around the city by a corrupt police officer, who's after the envelope for certain reasons. The entire story is told in a non-chronological order, with multiple flash-forward & flashback scenes.…

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  Review by Deckk ★★ 2

  100-word review: As a former cyclist, and cycling enthusiast, the idea of a bike-centred action film sounds more appealing to me than it does to probably the majority of people; the fact that I, as a teenagers, worked as a bike messenger for a short while — nothing like it's beging depicted right here — only ups the hype of course. But Premium Rush isn't hype; it's dull. The action feels directionless, and all-over-the-place in terms of scale and cadence (pun intended). Joseph Gordon-Levitt is overrated — there, I said it — and Premium Rush does nothing to change my view.

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  Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★★ 1

  My biggest issue with the film is that it seemed way out of its era. Premium Rush felt like a movie I'd see on Nickelodeon in 2002 with a young, recently-formerly-teenage heartthrob in the prime role, i.e. Clockstoppers, or Agent Cody Banks or something. The acting wasn't very good either. There was a really weird, unnecessary cameo by Sleigh Bells in a single scene.

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  Review by Bryan Espitia ★★★½

  JGL plays an adrenaline junkie bike messenger named Wilee who hates using brakes and loves saying extremely corny shit like “runnin’ reds and killin’ peds”. Using the power of epic bike stunts, The Who, and a Sherlock Holmes-like ability to freeze time and evaluate which route won’t end with him going face first into a windshield, he will narrowly avoid a persistent Michael Shannon around NYC for the next 90 minutes. Special shout out to the hysterical final shot of JGL casually biking past a horrific car accident, where everyone involved almost certainly died. And if you’re wondering, yes they do name drop the title of the movie in the movie!

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  Review by yarb ★★★ 9

  In the track cycling event called the Madison, paired riders take turns slingshotting each other into the fray, one pedaling all-out while the other recuperates up at the top of the boards. In Premium Rush it's Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Michael Shannon, as loose-cannon bike messenger and even looser-cannon bent cop respectively, who hand the action off to each other. JGL has to get an envelope to a backstreet eatery in Chinatown by 7 p.m. and there's nothing Shannon won't stoop to in order to put a stick in his spokes.

  Right, that's the pleasantries out of the way. How's the cycling? Eeeeeh... could be worse. JGL, a.k.a. Wilee (Coyote, geddit) has been coached that he has to spin those legs…

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  Review by Donna Bowman ★★★★★

  Runnin' reds & killin' peds.

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  Review by Chris Evangelista ★★★½

  Hey this is a lot of fun! Just pure cheese entertainment, but not cheez whiz cheese, more like a Gouda. Michael Shannon just having a good old time going crazy and making weird noises.

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  Review by 🇵🇱 Steve G 🇵🇸 ★★★½ 4

  Just a couple of days ago I was moaning in my Missing In Action review about how young 'uns today really are missing out by not having the daft action films around that I grew up on in the 80s and early 90s.

  Clearly Premium Rush is nothing like Missing In Action or Commando or No Retreat No Surrender, but you can't make those films any more anyway. They just wouldn't work at all. In 2013, however, it shows that there is still a place for silly action flicks - it's just a case of finding what works for today and finding the right style to get the formula just right.

  Of course, its level of sophistication is much higher…

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  Review by benton tarantella 1

  for an action thriller, this is hella romantic. found the movie i’m going to base my entire personality off of for the next three months