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Premium Rush (2012)

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Now this is a heck of a movie. I've wanted to see a Hollywood action scene with bicycles for several years now, especially after seeing what parkour did for foot chases in Casino Royale. Well, for my sins, I got a whole movie full of exactly that.

Tonally, this movie very much reminds me of 2006's 16 Blocks; both portray NYC in something close to real time as a hot, chaotic, super-dense hive of scum and villainy aplenty on both sides of the law.

JGL is terrific as usual, and totally credible as a biking badass. (There's a mid-credits bonus of real footage of him right after he accidentally smashed into a cab's rear window.) As for the villain... well, as one imdb reviewer put it, "Scenery is on the menu, and Michael Shannon has a voracious appetite!" He's hilarious and demented, giving the movie a much-needed jolt of verbose black humor. One speech of his in particular is right up there with classic Tarantino banter.

"But is there a babe," you ask? Well, there's one Dania Ramirez, the one Storm fought in the bad X-movie, looking sweaty and wearing a tight shirt the whole time:

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(+ Jamie Chung also, though she's almost always worried and/or distraught.)
And, while the action and story (perhaps inevitably) go OTT at the end, the excesses didn't at all ruin what's one heck of a fun flick. Lean (91 minutes) and lean, I enjoyed it more than Avengers, and have no trouble calling it better than the massively ballyhooed Skyfall, not to mention TDKR. If you like exciting, original action flicks a la 16 Blocks, Run Lola Run or even M:I-III or Speed, definitely check this underappreciated sucker out! :-D

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Completely agree with you Gaith, except on the Skyfall and TDKR bit :p

It's a fun well paced energy filled action movie with some great practical stunts and interestingly clever visual effects.

 

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Watched this tonight and thought it was alright but the plot is rather thin. I couldn't believe that both JGL and the black dude were both really into that messenger chick. Not to mention the dispatcher was hard for her too. She wasn't even pretty, and JGL could get a way hotter chick. That Asian chick was pretty nice though.

One thing I hated was how the exposition was handled. You're watching a scene and you think that it's a new scene but it's actually a flashback to something that happened earlier in the movie to explain what wasn't shown before. Either include it in the proper place or don't include it at all. It's not anything that we couldn't figure out by ourselves either so the scenes are really unnecessary to begin with.

Also, if the ticket is so damn important why didn't the chick go to Chinatown to deliver it so Sister Chen herself?
 

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Frantic Canadian said:
Also, if the ticket is so damn important why didn't the chick go to Chinatown to deliver it so Sister Chen herself?

Because then there'd be no movie?
 

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The old guy who wrote the ticket told her to get someone else to deliver it, because the locals around the restaurant (Chinatown apparently being a wretched hive of scum and villainy) know her and would mug her for it.
 

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Gaith said:
The old guy who wrote the ticket told her to get someone else to deliver it, because the locals around the restaurant (Chinatown apparently being a wretched hive of scum and villainy) know her and would mug her for it.

I must have missed that then.

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As for you assertion that Ms. Ramirez ain't pretty... I'd dispute that, but I'm too busy hot-tubbing with both her and Natalie Portman, so... :p

She looks okay in that pic you posted in your original post, but definitely not in the movie. She looked too bony, plus she was soaking wet full of sweat the entire movie and her hair was all ratty.:-o
 

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She looks okay in that pic you posted in your original post, but definitely not in the movie. She looked too bony, plus she was soaking wet full of sweat the entire movie and her hair was all ratty.:-o

How were her elbows? Were they too pointy for you?
 
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