Premium Rush Reviews

For all its attempts at originality, Premium Rush is, at its heart, generic

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10

Someone should have heeded the "brakes are death" creed of Gordon-Levitt's messenger and slammed them on while this was still a script.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

While Michael Shannon's performance is hilarious for every reason it shouldn't be, Joseph Gordon-Levitt disappoints for one of the first (and hopefully last) moments of his career. "Premium Rush" just feels sloppy and unsatisfying.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10

This will take you over when you're watching it, there's some cool tricks that suck you in, but after you start thinking about it, you realize that it's nowhere near as good as you thought it was while you were watching it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.25/5

The script is terrible and the greatMichael Shannon is forced to sound like a 1930's gangster: "Hey what's the big idea!" and he's so over the top and it sucks you out of it.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

If it didn't star the universally beloved Gordon-Levitt, "Premium Rush" would quietly fall in the category of late-summer time killer for teenagers.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Even though we see more of New York at street level than you'd ever expect in one thriller, this film is hit by one puncture after another.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

There is also a romance and scenes of what may or may not be human trafficking but unless the action is happening on the back of a Schwinn it pretty much is only hinted at on screen.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Premium Rush is a half-entertaining, half-exasperating movie - one that sells you on the notion of New York bike messengers as great fodder for cinema but then doesn't know how to build a feature around them.

Full Review | Original Score: 6.5/10

Initially diverting and thrilling, but with diminishing returns. It's excessively inane and cartoonish. Not enough pleasure to call it a guilty pleasure.

Full Review | Original Score: 5.22/10

A few twiddly Google Maps inserts aside, David Koepp's film is low on kinetic energy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Koepp doesn't trust the basics of the hunt, bending over backwards to paste a soul on a simplistic machine of suspense.

Full Review | Original Score: C

Bike messengers - and moviegoers - deserve better.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

This is supposed to be a life-and-death chase movie, not two friends messing around.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

A VHS classic from another age, but times have changed.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Premium Rush is like Kim Kardashian, it looks pretty, but you wouldn't want to marry it.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Techs, especially for the fast-paced chases, are pretty slick and hold your eye. After a while though, it all gets repetitive.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

New York bicycle couriers lead such dangerous lives that it seems it would be possible to make a thrilling movie about them without having conventional villains or plots.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Premium Rush can't decide if it's a serious, ticking-clock thriller or an antic, stunt-driven cartoon.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Shannon should have made Roscoe P. Coltrane noises the whole time.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5