Awesome special effects of Joseph Gordon-Levitt appearing to bicycle madly in and out of Manhattan traffic kept us on the edges of our seats watching this inventive action movie about a messenger, his girlfriend, his rival, and a bad guy played by Michael Shannon (last in Take Shelter), who does crazy so well. The flashbacks, flash forwards, and cinematic thought processes add to the excitement. David Koepp (I liked his direction of Secret Window (2004), his script for Panic Room (2002) and his co-writing on Jurassic Park (1993), The Paper (1994), Mission: Impossible (1996), Spider-Man (2002), and Angels & Demons) directs and co-wrote the script with John Kamps.
Gordon-Levitt (I finished writing about Looper minutes ago) really did hurt himself making this movie, as shown in this clip, discussed on the trivia page, and shown during the credits of the actual movie. Maybe I'm wrong about it all being special effects! Co-stars include Dania Ramirez (series arcs in The Sopranos, Entourage, and more) and Sean Kennedy (his debut) who, like Gordon-Levitt, look great in bike shorts with chain locks slung around their trim midsections, as well as Jamie Chung (Lauren in The Hangover Part II, more) and Aasif Mandvi (most recently in The Dictator and Margin Call).
Composer David Sardy also wrote the music for 21 (2008), Jack's favorite Zombieland (which shares with this one producer Gavin Polone), and End of Watch, which I'll write up soon. Here's some good music from Premium Rush. Some of the songs used in the movie are listed here.
We liked this a lot more than the rottentomatoes folks (75% critics/68 audiences) when we saw it almost seven weeks ago. Those with more than a passing interest in Manhattan will also appreciate the maps and should save it to your netflix queue for its expected December release.
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