And I mean he’s leaping onto a hood, riding up the windshield, over the roof, and leaping off the trunk and onto the next hood.Ī half dozen cops scramble on foot to catch him. He snags it and takes off, yards away from Bobby, by riding over the hoods and roofs of impounded cars. Wilee eyes a trashy yellow bike, music to his ears. They both have to leave the warehouse, and the best way out is on two wheels.
Wilee, two ribs cracked, arrives and finds Vanessa has taken the ticket, but his bike is trashed. Detective Bobby Monday, gambling degenerate. Wilee agrees to “help” Bobby get the ticket back in exchange for his bike, where he stashed the ticket after the flower shop dustup. While Wilee rides in the ambulance and endures torture from Bobby, Vanessa tags along with the impound truck.Ī deal is cut and Wilee and Bobby also arrive at the building, Vanessa hiding inside already. The best stunts in the movie, probably the only reason Premium Rush got made, occur during a daring escape from a police impound lot.įollowing the near-climax at a flower shop, where Wilee, Manny ( Wole Parks), Bobby, Vanessa, and a bike cop converge with the all-important ticket, Wilee is injured and has his damaged bike captured and driven back to impound. The viewer agrees, but is along for the ride. His life left up to a guy wearing a chain for a belt. While chasing Wilee early in the film, he chuckles at himself for chasing a guy on a bike.
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He tortures Wilee onboard an ambulance, Wille strapped to a bed and with two cracked ribs.īobby seems to understand the silliness of this venture. I mentioned the killing of an enforcer earlier. Impressive driving, officer.īobby will do anything to fix his problems. He keeps pace through crowded Manhattan’s, dangerous streets as fast as a guy on a bike. It’s true, because Bobby is a fearless driver. Bobby says, “I’m the guy you don’t fuck with.” *** These events occur about two hours before Wilee picks up the ticket from Columbia to deliver to Chinatown.īobby shows up on campus to intercept the package from Wilee. Best I could tell, he owes $17,000 from losing at dominoes and he killed a guy. Many slang words are spoken by Bobby and the Chinese men and women with whom he interacts. Bobby having the worst day of his life.Ī montage shows Bobby’s rough day expanding into life-threatening, and I didn’t understand any of it. He’s up to here in gambling debts to the Chinese, and when some guys tried to collect on it, he beat an enforcer to death.īobby believes his money problems can be solved by stealing a ticket that’s being delivered tonight. New York detective Robert “Bobby” Monday is in a lot of trouble. He’s not a guy who can stop, even slow down. A dirty cop chases him throughout the day, beats him brutal and punishes him, but Wilee takes it in stride. She’s mad about it, but to be fair, it’s only a ceremony. He’s having relationship issues with a fellow biker named Vanessa ( Dania Ramirez), whose graduation he skipped to participate in a bike race. Wilee’s personal life is inferior to his bike life. He out-bikes a cop using a simple technique of recognizing when a taxi door is about to open and dodging it. It takes little time to learn that Wilee is the best, if only because he’s the most dangerous. We watch his anticipation, shown in how three different possible routes through intersections could end in injury. We see Wilee’s superior navigation skills, on display as he bobs among cars and dodges taxi doors. Premium Rush spends much of its opening act laying out the dangers and skills of the mostly invisible bike messenger subset. Instead he tempts far every day navigating treacherous Manhattan streets delivering messages and packages across the world’s most famous borough.
He dropped out of Columbia’s law school because the idea of wearing a suit at his age makes his balls shrivel and recede into his abdomen. He’s the best because he won’t slow down, doesn’t even have brakes on his machine. Coyote ( Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is the fastest, baddest, most reckless of Manhattan’s 1,500 bike messengers. ONE SENTENCE PLOT SUMMARY: A by-the-seat-of-his-bike messenger dodges taxis and a dirty cop to deliver a ticket stub from Columbia University to Chinatown.
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Have you ever wanted to see a movie about New York City’s suicidal bicycle messengers? You haven’t? Well, here’s one anyway.
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