I'll give Premium Rush a score of six because it wasn't the worst low budget (if you can call 35 million dollars low budget) action film, but let's be honest, it makes no sense whatsoever. The entire premise is that the bike messenger is trying to help a Chinese woman bring her son over here illegally and in order to do it, she had to give a bunch of money to some gangster, who in return gave her a ticket with a smiley face on it which she has to then give to another woman who will then make a phone call to China giving the okay to the people who will be smuggling the child over on a boat. HUH??? What was the purpose of the ticket? Why didn't the first gangster just pick up the phone and call the woman gangster and tell her he has the money and everything is okay. The only reason this ticket exists is so that the bike messenger can have something physical to carry while a crazy cop (played by that weirdo from Boardwalk Empire) chases him around the city for an hour and a half. Then the only way the bike messenger escapes the cop is by calling for a flash mob of bikers and if he could have done that why didn't he just do that in the first place? And I never could figure out how the other gangsters who the cop owed money to knew about the stupid ticket in the first place in order to get the cop to go and try to steal it from the bike messenger. Nothing, I mean, nothing, in this movie makes any sense whatsoever. But, if you want to see a movie about a bike messenger being chased by a crazy cop, I guess this one is as good as any.
Review of Premium Rush
