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Action movie not quite premium, but still a rush
No pretense to this tense piece of pop cinema
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt, left, and Dania Ramirez star in a scene from "Premium Rush." - photo by Sarah Shatz
I’m a big fan of movies without pretense, movies that embrace rather than try to hide what they really are. “Premium Rush” is a playful, absurd, cheesy action movie, and it’s greatest charm is that it fully embraces those qualities. It’s a movie we’d label bad if we view it as art, but it’s extremely entertaining as a piece of pop cinema.