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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:
(+ Jamie Chung also, though she's almost always worried and/or distraught.)
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