Actors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Shannon
Director: David Koepp
Somehow it's become de rigueur that any action film in a large city involves large parts of it on fire or blowing up. Whether it's a catharsis for the attacks of September 11th, 2001 or some inborn desire to see harmless chaos, I don't really care - I do know that it's fundamentally boring and uncinematic. Here's a better story: the adrenaline rush of the mundane coupled with a loopy story.
Premium Rush has all sorts of plot problems - it even falls into the trap of ensuring that our protagonist is a genius who has chosen to live his life a certain way - but when a film has several great action setpieces, who cares? The film loses steam in its final third as we wind our way to the conclusion, but more movies should be like this. I don't want to blow cities up, I want to see their hidden thrills, licit or otherwise - on this scale, Premium Rush is a smashing success.
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Really? 4 stars? This movie was terrible. It's like a long Garmin ad. Who needs GPS for Manhattan anyway? And the whole premise is ridiculous. 2 stars.
ReplyDelete1. The plot is incredibly dumb, no comment there. The plot of many action films is unspeakably stupid. Speed, for instance. Classic action film, idiotic plot.
Delete2. As someone who drives somewhat often in (lower) Manhattan, where the grid disappears, navigating it is maddening. I imagine it is easier on a bike, but GPS would be a help for sure.
3. I think this is a movie that would not work on a laptop, so if you watched it on one, I could see why you didn't like it.