The pace of the movie is really fantastic, but once you get past that and realize you've been watching a 90-minute bike chase, which isn't nearly as thrilling as the trailer lets on, you begin to deflate.

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 7, 2017

Want more from a late-summer joyride than slides, wheelies and bunny hops? Get a load of Shannon, dementedly inspired, trying out an oddball accent and Richard Widmark giggle.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 8, 2013

Just a few spokes short of a wheel, guys.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 8, 2013

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.

| Jan 8, 2013

Premium Rush is that rare bird: a chase picture that's just a chase picture - and a dandy one.

Full Review | Jan 8, 2013

This is about the bike, the road and the compulsion to go, go, go.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 15, 2012

A least one reviewer cycled home from the screening in a state of uncharacteristic nervousness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 14, 2012

A VHS classic from another age, but times have changed.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 13, 2012

Simple but fun.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 13, 2012

A few twiddly Google Maps inserts aside, David Koepp's film is low on kinetic energy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 13, 2012

A blast.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 11, 2012

A movie that while thin and silly, moves with such joyous speed that you almost want to throw your arms in the air and scream.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 9, 2012

The whole film sizzles with urban aggression.

| Sep 3, 2012

I do have an abiding fondness for compact and coherent action movies, and this is surely one.

| Aug 26, 2012

It's the kinetic energy Koepp injects into the premise that overshadows the predictable plotting and pushes your pulse into the danger zone.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 26, 2012

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.

| Aug 24, 2012

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.

| Aug 24, 2012

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.

| Original Score: B | Aug 24, 2012

I don't know how a film this entertaining and expertly-made can show up the last week of summer, but I'm not complaining.

Full Review | Aug 24, 2012

Rarely delivers on its title's promise of high-class excitement.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 24, 2012