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Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: So appealing is Gordon-Levitt that, for great stretches of his new movie, I suspended my disapproval of his character and just went with the nonstop flow. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Silly stuff, but for an end-of-summer matinee you could do a whole lot worse - and, by this point of the summer, probably have. Read more
Kathleen Murphy, MSN Movies: Premium Rush isn't mindless mayhem, a thriller for teenage boys bursting with hormonal bloodlust. Koepp's film has a brain... Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: Stuffed with zingers and zippy stunts, it comes with pretty young things of all hues and hair types - few prettier than its lead, Joseph Gordon-Levitt - and start-to-finish clever special effects, none more clever or special than Michael Shannon. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Premium Rush is that rare bird: a chase picture that's just a chase picture - and a dandy one. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: Koepp wants to capture the immediacy of bike messengers zipping through hostile territory, but Premium Rush has an arcade elasticity that's a few stops removed from reality. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: For those who found "Speed" too thoughtful, there's "Premium Rush," the new king of brainless chase flicks (at least until Razor scooters finances its first feature film). Read more
Mark Feeney, Boston Globe: "Premium Rush" has a lot of energy - too much, it's kind of exhausting. It also has a lot of trickiness. Read more
Jake Coyle, Associated Press: It's Shannon who doesn't just steal the film, he towers over it. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The cycling action is fun, and there's a lot of pop mythology about the tao of bike messengers, though the latter sounds as if it were written by someone who pays for rush service, not someone who provides it. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: "Premium Rush" is great fun - nimble, quick, the thinking person's mindless entertainment. Read more
Tom Charity, CNN.com: An unpretentious throwback to the kind of action movie that had no need of superheroes, Premium Rush is hardly a classic but fun up to a point. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: No brakes indeed. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Premium Rush earns its place as end-of-the-summer escapism, but I can't say that it's more than a well-done formula flick. Read more
Jordan Hoffman, Film.com: It has a few marvelous tricks up its sleeve with extra doses of zoom-zoom. Read more
John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: Premium Rush supplies just enough dramatic rationale to set a series of Manhattan bike chases in motion and then follows without pretending it cares much about anything beyond the adrenaline. Read more
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: [It] actually doesn't sound like it would work at all as a tightly wound slice of street action, but it does, and in radically fresh ways. Read more
Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News: A snappy, fast-paced thriller that provides a genuine rush to close out the summer. Even if you prefer four wheels over two, you're in for a pulse-pounding time. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: The plot is as layered and complex as a TV ad for detergent. Read more
Frank Lovece, Newsday: "Premium Rush" is both the title of this movie and its clever if less than subtle promise to summer audiences -- which it mostly delivers ... Read more
Bruce Diones, New Yorker: The whole film sizzles with urban aggression. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Cruising the streets of Manhattan, clocking in at a tight 90 minutes and set on a bike without brakes, this loose-limbed action-drama is a swift, sweaty ode to the city's subcultures and a punky descendant of '70s B-movies. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: This is supposed to be a life-and-death chase movie, not two friends messing around. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Premium Rush can't decide if it's a serious, ticking-clock thriller or an antic, stunt-driven cartoon. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The movie speeds along crisply, providing just enough exposition to lend a few pounds of emotional weight without bogging down the breakneck pace. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: I'm very weary of routine chase movies. There's nothing routine about "Premium Rush." Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: Hollywood has been trying to pull off the bike messenger as action hero since 1986's Quicksilver with Kevin Bacon. You have to hand it to Premium Rush, which has the kinetic whoosh to keep you spinning. Read more
Amy Biancolli, San Francisco Chronicle: Like the lithe and maligned carriers weaving their way through Big Apple traffic, "Premium Rush" is a thin, brash, sinewy thing built entirely for speed. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The skeleton of "Premium Rush" is as old as the movies: a chase. It's how the skeleton is fleshed out that makes the movie such loopy, crazed, dangerous fun. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: It continually spins its wheels or even goes in reverse, backtracking to previous points to load new information. Read more
Christopher Orr, The Atlantic: Throwing "premium" into the title may be overselling such a trifling entertainment. But for the cinematically discounted days of late summer, it's a perfectly diverting little ride. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Undeniably, the word "action" does apply, but only as it falls between "class" and "suit." Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Sit back and enjoy it as a summer jolt of pure adrenaline. Read more
Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: It's a good thing that adrenaline tends to short-circuit logical thinking; the plot is mostly nonsensical, but you'll be too thrilled by the literal twists and turns to care much. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: The contrived tale is filled with plot holes, but the story takes a back seat to the chase-filled, daredevil action. Read more
Andrew Barker, Variety: The lovably ridiculous bike-messenger thriller Premium Rush is a welcome throwback. Read more
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: I do have an abiding fondness for compact and coherent action movies, and this is surely one. Read more
Stephanie Merry, Washington Post: Breezy and entertaining, if imperfect ... Read more