What a rush!

Yesterday we saw Premium Rush, sort of an ultimate bicycling movie.  Absolutely visceral for a bike-rider.  Brandy and Gay thought it was comical, my full-body twitching while the stars and bit players cranked their lightweight brakeless messenger bikes through New York City traffic.  That's all it is, a high-speed bicycle chase scene with just a sprinkling of love interest as the characters hurl themselves through unforgiving streets.  For the right viewer, like me, it's a nonstop adrenaline high.

The story is propelled not so much by a plot as a tropism.  Faster, chancier, ouchier.  Felt like the actors were really into it, too.  Jordon-Levitt especially – there's a clip at the end of him bleeding and laughing at the scene of an accident where he smashed into the rear of a car.  Jamie Chung is cute as a semi-love interest and Michael Shannon is good as the absolute bad guy who pursues the messengers with a snarl and a gun.

Best movie I've seen in a while, though it was admittedly kind of tailor-made for me.  If you love biking and speed, oh my god, you have to see it.  Be prepared to twitch.

Joe