Premium Rush
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: August 24, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
66
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 36 Critic Reviews
Positive:
24
Mixed:
10
Negative:
2
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60
EmpireOlly RichardsSep 10, 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. Read full review
60
Total FilmKevin HarleySep 1, 2012
It's definitely the 'other' Gordon-Levitt film out this month, but this silly cycler whizzes by amiably. Star charm helps: JGL's enjoyment in his job adds welcome levels of Levitt-y. Read full review
60
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottAug 24, 2012
Is Premium Rush a two-wheeled "French Connection"? No, not by a long shot. (Although it does include a racing-beneath-the-el-train homage.) But when it comes to lightweight, synapse-free action fare, Premium Rush delivers. Read full review
60
Time OutKeith UhlichAug 24, 2012
After the story takes a cloyingly sentimental turn, this lean-and-mean thriller becomes bathetically bloated. Just a few spokes short of a wheel, guys. Read full review
60
Boxoffice MagazineSara Maria VizcarrondoAug 22, 2012
Premium Rush has a rewarding relentlessness and a payoff that suggests that whirring city that surrounds us in is full of supporters who see past the system. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenAug 23, 2012
On the byways of any bustling metropolis, here is what the combination of bicycles + cars + pedestrians is certain to produce: (1) nasty accidents and (2) ferocious debates. More surprisingly, on the silver screen in Premium Rush, here is what the same combination fails to produce: a good action movie. Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsAug 23, 2012
The delivery pouch for Premium Rush promises a white-hot thriller from the bike-messenger subculture. But what's inside the package seems like a lukewarm action-comedy from the pile of scripts that Matthew Broderick rejected after "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." Read full review
50
Boston GlobeMark FeeneyAug 23, 2012
Premium Rush has a lot of energy - too much, it's kind of exhausting. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicBarbara VanDenburghAug 23, 2012
The film is a live-action cartoon down to its main character's name -- Wilee, "like the coyote." It's just a few sticks of dynamite and a 10-ton anvil short of going full Looney Tunes, and is all the worse for that restraint. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAug 22, 2012
The action is neither cathartic nor supremely exhilarating. "Bullitt" on a bike this film is not. Read full review
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