New York City bicycle courier
Wilee (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is at the end of a tough day dodging traffic and
delivering packages across the length and breadth of Manhattan when he gets one last call. Wilee
has to pick up an envelope from a college campus Uptown and deliver it to Chinatown by 7pm but is soon approached by a debt ridden,
crocked cop (Michael Shannon) who tries to take the package off his hands.
Sensing something isn’t right; Wilee takes off at high speed which brings about
a two hour chase across the Borough and ends up involving Wilee’s ex girlfriend
Vanessa (Dania Ramirez), love rival Manny (Wole Parks) and luckless bike cop
(Christopher Place).
For a film about a bike messenger trying to deliver an
envelope, Premium Rush is a lot of
fun. The action is fast paced and well shot and the acting good and sometimes
great. The plot is a little uninvolving but plays second fiddle to the high
speed bike action.
