Caffeinated Clint
We haven’t heard much of him since Michael Myers added that skate to his cranium in “Halloween H20” (he’s been very quiet) but relative newcomer Joseph Gordon-Levitt (I’m yanking your chain, e-haters!) returns to the thriller genre with another exceedingly original venture, “Premium Rush”.
Co-written and directed by seasoned screenwriter David Koepp (“Jurassic Park”), the ‘Speed on a trike’ flick tells of a “New York bike messenger [who] is given an envelope by a young woman at an uptown Manhattan college and is told he has 90 minutes to deliver it to an address in Chinatown. Complications ensue when an undercover police office appears and demands the envelope on special grounds. The truth, hidden motivations, and the life-and-death stakes on all sides are revealed through a series of flashbacks as the cop and the messenger engage in a length-of-Manhattan chase, racing against time after the messenger discovers the precious nature of the envelope’s slender contents.”
Michael Shannon (“Man of Steel”, “The Iceman”, “Mud”, “Boardwalk Empire”), another guy who hasn’t got nearly enough work going on, is in this too. In other words? lethal combo of coolness here, kids.
This one looks like it’s got some air in its tires…
“August Rush” is out in August
