OT NY Times review of "Premium Rush"

[veloduffer]

Looks like fun to watch. The chase scenes are modeled after movies like The French Connection and are real, not CGI.

http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/movies/premium-rush-starring-joseph-gordon-levitt.html?hpw :banana:

[crownjewelwl]

seems pretty even handed

[Fixed]

I was a messenger for almost twenty years
I will be there to see how they do it in the big time
Cheers :)

[crownjewelwl]

http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/movies/cheesy_rider_EyHLxtGYSEgBbG6X11kSZI

[veloduffer]

From the Rotten Tomatoes website (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/premium_rush/#audience_reviews), it seems like the majority (>70%) of the critics and audience like it. It's got to be at least better than "Expendables 2"!

Plus the stunt riders included Danny MacCaskill.

[Fixed]

From the Rotten Tomatoes website (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/premium_rush/#audience_reviews), it seems like the majority (>70%) of the critics and audience like it. It's got to be at least better than "Expendables 2"!

Plus the stunt riders included Danny MacCaskill.

I couldn't sit through expendables 1
Cheers

[LesMiner]

I saw this movie yesterday. It was really entertaining and fast movig. The bicycle riding was over the top. I could see someone basing a video game on this movie. Some of moves through traffic and additional supporting scenes would make a good video game. I am looking forward to expert opinions about how real this movie is to the bike messenger life. I would rate this movie above the other bicycle theme movies.

Amazingly my wife enjoyed the movie as well despite it being about bicycle riding. But I did have to go with her to see Hope Springs with Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, and Steve Carell. Yes a "chick flick" but I must admit it was good. Considering the cast how could you miss? The down side is the judgemental look of "you are just like that guy in the movie"

[slidey]

This bit from the NY Post review:

"When an angry cop (Michael Shannon) tells bike messenger Wilee (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), “This whole city hates you!” I was certainly ready to join a standing ovation, but alas the cop, a degenerate gambler, is the bad guy. We’re supposed to root for the biker who daily breaks about 50 laws while endangering countless pedestrians."

The tone is set for a biased review, in my opinion.

I haven't watched the movie, as I'm quite slow in general to watch movies...so can't make a call about the movie myself...but I'm not going to go off of the above review for sure.

http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/movies/cheesy_rider_EyHLxtGYSEgBbG6X11kSZI