Premium Rush

Having proven his stunt performing abilities in Inception, the busy JGL delivers a fun and tense diversion here. While not truly weak, the script and motivations of the extra creepy villain (Michael Shannon) are pretty thin. But that’s not the point of Premium Rush. The point is a ticking clock and one long bike chase. Filmmakers wallow in wild, “Go-Pro” style shots of bikes racing in, around, and OVER New York city traffic. (How’d they shoot some of that stuff??) It’s a bicycle fetishist’s wet-dream, and truly a cinematographer’s movie. It’s like one long, amazing Red Bull commercial. It’s definitely worth seeing if you like this sort of thing, i.e. bikes and/or camera gadgetry and/or Manhattan settings. And most people looking for a decent action movie will probably like it, too.