Premium Rush (2012) poster
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FilmPG-132012

Premium Rush

CrimeActionThriller

Directed by David Koepp

In Manhattan, a bike messenger picks up an envelope that attracts the interest of a dirty cop, who pursues the cyclist throughout the city. From TMDB

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  • Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 14, 2024

    Twelve years ago, a little movie called PREMIUM RUSH zipped into theater, to the delight of late-summer movie sickos like me. My tribute to the *most* August film of the century: thereveal.substack.com/p/a-tribute-...

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  • Brandon @bedubble.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 9, 2025

    Premium Rush is actually a movie about how fast health insurance costs are rising

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  • 🎃 Will Porter 🥐🐺🦇 @dinosaursheriff.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 7, 2025

    Premium Rush is kinda fun, but if you want a GOOD bike messenger movie you need to see Concrete Rodeo. vimeo.com/6693075

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  • Norm Wilner @normwilner.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 14, 2024

    Every time a film critic celebrates PREMIUM RUSH, an angel gets its wings. Cheers, @scotttobias.bsky.social !

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  • Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 2, 2025

    Literally the only bike-based films I can think of are Italian neorealist film The Bicycle Thief, the French animated film Les Triplets De Bellville and forgettable Joseph Gordon Levitt bike courier movie Premium Rush.

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  • Learning on Screen @learningonscreen.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 2, 2025

    The film "Premium Rush" makes cycling look very cool in NYC and for sure the fastest way to get around. Also the start of the Tomb Raider reboot they have a cool bike chase scene in London

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  • EF Pro Cycling @efprocycling.comBluesky · Jul 4, 2025

    Premium Rush: Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a bike messenger who gets mixed up with corrupt police officers. A classic movie chase scene on bikes? Yes, please.

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  • K. Cook & Cats, Co. @kcookandcatsco.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 14, 2026

    #NowWatching: Premium Rush (2012) I've always idly wondered, "How bad is that Joseph Gordon-Levitt bike-messenger movie?" and it just became free on YouTube, so we're about to find out. Quite bad, I expect! 🤩 How could this be good? Like, honestly... #FilmSky 🎥 #PremiumRush 🧵 #MovieSky 🎞️

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  • Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 3, 2025

    I've never forgotten the reaction of a cycle courier I knew to the glib "running reds, killing peds" line in the very silly film Premium Rush. He'd known people who (accidentally, obvs) killed people while riding, and he did NOT think it was something to joke about, at all.

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  • 🔞Mx Wred's haunted 🏳️‍⚧️ brain 🔞 @mxwinifred.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 28, 2025

    Premium Rush is a movie that doesn't just say "fuck cars" it also says ACAB

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  • optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 27, 2024

    Yeah, you would HAVE to make an allowance for that. Michael Shannon flying off the handle always makes for something fascinating to watch. Like, Premium Rush would've been a middling film without him, but you plug Shannon in as the psychotic cop saying batshit insane stuff? PRICELESS.

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  • hpierce1964.bsky.social @hpierce1964.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 2, 2025

    Premium Rush (2012): This action-packed film features a bike messenger in Manhattan who picks up a mysterious envelope, leading to a thrilling chase through the city. It showcases the fast-paced world of urban cycling

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  • Feargal McKay @cycologies.comBluesky · Nov 2, 2025

    Remember courier chic? Premium Rush returns to Netflix with the least likely courier since Jennifer Aniston (she really was). I'm looking forward to Premium Rush II, in which Joseph Gordon-Levitt has just 15 minutes to get a Deliveroo pizza order across town.

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  • K. Cook & Cats, Co. @kcookandcatsco.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 14, 2026

    Quick, think of the 5 most-overplayed, useless, why-would-you-even-pay-the-licensing-fee-for-that songs that any movie could use (and that many, many have)! Do you have them? I bet one of them was the song that opens #PremiumRush: Baba O'Riley by The Who (oft misremembered as Teenage Wasteland) 🤦‍♀️

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  • Marcie @marciecain.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 3, 2026

    #filmsky #LetterboxdFriday Premium Rush: popcorn flick kino Ed, Edd n Eddy’s Big Picture Show: My childhood Stay Tuned: I wish we got more films these days that does parody as well as this film does. RIP John Ritter Throw Momma from the Train: Really fun but Danny is carrying this movie entirely.

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  • Heather Costa @heathercosta.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 16, 2026

    Yeah, the first bit of the movie feels like you accidentally turned on Premium Rush instead of Tomb Raider.

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  • Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 3, 2025

    Premium Rush! Literally a whole movie (thriller) about bike messengers in NYC.

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  • Kennyisbored @kennyisbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 12, 2025

    In 2012 I went on a four day bender talking about the movie Premium Rush.

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  • Thunderfunk @mxthunderfunk.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 16, 2026

    I would rather pay a bike courrier $25/hour to do this. Like Joseph Gordon Levitt in Premium Rush, a movie I have not seen.

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  • 🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 16, 2026

    But not as a dis to Premium Rush because I lowkey love that movie

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  • Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 9, 2025

    Premium Rush is actually a movie about how you can access the secret Canadian prog rock trio's album "2113" for a nominal fee

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  • Matt Monagle @monagle.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 14, 2024

    I have a soft spot in my heart for Premium Rush. It was the first film I saw where I realized I'd lived in New York long enough to tell when New York movie geography was wrong. You turned right onto Houston and now you're on 110th street? Get outta he'a!

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  • Emma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 21, 2024

    You ever conflate two things you have never seen? My spouse kind of thinks of Looper and Premium Rush as the same movie where Joseph Gordon-Lovett plays a time traveling bike messenger. So I know that Homestuck and Undertale are two different things but it takes real effort to distinguish them.

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  • Don Quikong @giallobiafra.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 5, 2026

    I learned about this movie from an episode of Comedy Bang Bang where Paul Scheer plays a film producer with a singular focus of promoting Premium Rush. Eventually I realized it was a real movie and just just a podcast bit. Fun flick

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  • David Kuhne @davidkuhne.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 27, 2026

    Watched Premium Rush tonight. A silly movie but I was in the mood for something light. Was Premium Rush one of the last big DVDs because that DVD cover feels pretty ubiquitous like something you saw every time you stepped into the video store

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  • Mynar Lenahan ✨Looking For Gigs @mynarlenahan.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 13, 2026

    Watched Premium Rush. You probably shouldn't. boxd.it/d6IAmt

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  • Giles Sparrow is adrift in the vortex @gswrites.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 5, 2025

    But that Joseph Gordon Leavitt bike courier film was only a couple of years ago... <Googles "Premium Rush release date". Withers to dust.>

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  • amerthkj1.bsky.social @amerthkj1.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 1, 2025

    Good news! They kind of did make a Mumen Rider movie. They called it Premium Rush. 🙂

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  • TubaPeter Sez Send More Paramedics @tubapeter.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 29, 2025

    If you haven't seen the movie PREMIUM RUSH, I recommend the movie PREMIUM RUSH letterboxd.com/film/premium...

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  • Colorful Kat 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✨ @goodkitty93.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 17, 2025

    #15MoviesToGetToKnowMe 1. EEAAO 2. The Raid 3. Beauty and the Beast 4. The Lego Movie 5. Mean Girls 6. It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World 7. Whiplash 8. Premium Rush 9. First Blood 10. Aliens 11. The Mummy 12. Bride of Chucky 13. Blade 14. The Nightmare Before Christmas 15. Tokyo Godfathers

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  • mea tulpa ⛓️ @jokewitch.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 29, 2025

    this poster is so wack is this movie called Ride Like Hell or Premium Rush or is it a matrix reloaded colon subtitle situation but they forgot the colon. joseph gordon levitt explain urself

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  • It's Lilly Time @lillybee.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 5, 2025

    #103: Premium Rush For a movie that seems to really really want you to think biking is really cool, it mostly just goes to show why people don't like bikers. I lost count of how many traffic accidents Joseph Gordon-Levitt caused in this. #filmsky 5/10

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  • Pannier Peter 🚲 @peter.devBluesky · Feb 14, 2025

    It was such a letdown when I found out that the movie Premium Rush was not about discovering a new, more premium tier of poppers

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  • ddiiggss @ddiiggss.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 5, 2025

    For a sec I thought you meant Premium Rush, the JGL bike messenger movie and I was like well fucking incredible might be overselling it a tad

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  • Deepak Mantena @deepak.chatBluesky · Nov 25, 2024

    Dusted off a prototype from 2015(!) and working on it again is a premium rush, like that Joseph Gordon-Levitt bicycle movie Premium Rush.

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  • CINEMATIC F-BOMBS @cinematicfbombs.comBluesky · Nov 9, 2024

    Film: Premium Rush (2012) [PG-13] Studio: Columbia Pictures Character: Bobby Monday Actor: Michael Shannon Director: David Koepp Screenwriters: David Koepp & John Kamps Timestamp: 0:12:08 cinematicfbombs.com/2023/07/23/2...

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  • Willem DaFOMO || 🇨🇦 he/him/they/them @willemdafomo.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 9, 2024

    I recall another book about s/punky bike couriers in SF...title escapes me, but it had a gold cover (trade paperback edition), and I swear it was at least part of the inspiration for that Joseph Gordon Levitt courier movie, Premium Rush.

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  • Christopher "the" Agocs @agocs.bsky.socialBluesky · May 17, 2024

    Dear Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, I'd like to make a film that's like Premium Rush mixed with Lola Rennt. No I don't have any experience or talent or a story written, just some vibes I'd like to capture. I'll need a million Francs. what do you mean you don't use francs?

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  • scenarist / Chris @scenarist.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 27, 2023

    I had my London friend watch Premium Rush, which is a great movie about a wild day in the life of a bike messenger in Manhattan. After viewing, he said, "This film promotes unsafe urban cycling." I said, "Damn straight it does!"

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  • Enbyfilter 🏳️‍⚧️ Mx Lyra Θ Δ🔜MFF @enbyfilter.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 29, 2023

    Some days I think this movie wanted to be called Ride Like Hell but instead got the name Premium Rush. Amusingly I don’t think anyone in the movie even said “Ride like hell”

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  • USDA Crit Beef Inspector @youterus.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 16, 2023

    Petition to show Premium Rush in all Drivers Ed programs because that movie really is mostly about Search Identify Predict Decide Execute

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  • K. Cook & Cats, Co. @kcookandcatsco.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 15, 2026

    Why is Michael Shannon in this dogshit movie? 🤔 I guess it was 2012. He wasn't as big then. Bless his ❤️. He's... whatever here. He's thankfully not trying too hard/doing too much, which is the risk sometimes when real actors get signed to do cynical, cheap trash like this #FilmSky 🎥 #PremiumRush 🧵

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  • K. Cook & Cats, Co. @kcookandcatsco.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 14, 2026

    That’s fucking hilarious… I closed my laptop to go take a quick smoke break or I’d screenshot it, but the top other recommended free YouTube movie on the righthand side of Premium Rush is: Quicksilver. That explains why 😆

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  • mattdawhit @mattdawhit.mastodon.iow.social.ap.brid.gyBluesky · Sep 19, 2026

    I finally watched Premium Rush tonight. It is a very silly film and forgivable for it, still very watchable as entertainment Key points with very low-stakes spoiler in the reply

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  • Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 18, 2026

    Watching Premium Rush here and Michael Shannon is one of those actors that can take a pretty mediocre film and make it a lot of fun. You can tell he's having a blast working on this like lol

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  • 🔞Mx Wred's haunted 🏳️‍⚧️ brain 🔞 @mxwinifred.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 21, 2026

    Does that make Premium Rush a stepdad movie?

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  • Heather Lentini @hlentini.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 16, 2026

    Premium Rush is such a good little movie. If you haven’t seen it, you should!

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  • Cake @grisly-gateaux.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 7, 2026

    ooh Premium Rush is on tubi. another i’ve been trying to cross off my list. #NowWatching #MovieSky #Movie

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  • hold me closer, feral dancer @tundrafuckery.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 30, 2026

    @killjamesbond.bsky.social have y'all heard of a movie called Premium Rush? it's an interesting point of comparison with the Fast & Furious films, but also has some of the "what if a white guy had to do a Chinese mission?" energy from Big Trouble in Little China. also it's about a bike messenger.

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  • One World Government Gun Grabber and Millionaire Republican @amend6.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 9, 2026

    The movie Smokey and the Bandit would not be made today when you can just order beer online. Or the movie Premium Rush. Send an email with an attachment. Or the Rockford Files where he spends a good deal time driving around looking for a pay phone or looking at newspaper micro film.

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  • hanfinity 🚲 @hanfinity.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 22, 2026

    I don’t think we’ve even had a mainstream cycling film since Premium Rush we’re well overdue

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  • 🌏🐶🦕🥳 Vegetable Gremlin ⍼​👻🥦💥🏠♫ @vegetablegremlin.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 5, 2026

    Trip report: handles this fine, ate 31% of the batt but that is no surprise. Chokes on much larger Gremlins 2 HD-DTS rip but that's no surprise. Maybe between Premium Rush (2012) and Hackers (1995) I don't even need another movie on this nugget.

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  • Baron Destructus @barondestructus.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 3, 2025

    "Premium Rush" with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, a bike-based action movie. Certainly nothing life-changing, but I remember it being a breezy and enjoyable film.

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  • Jonathan Hansen, but scary @jonathanhansen.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 15, 2025

    That's the Jurassic Park movies for ya... endlessly recycling the things that worked in the first film, to ever-diminishing effect. Loved Premium Rush. Nothing but fun, and unfairly slept on at the time.

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  • The Dalai Parton @jasonbiffle.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 15, 2025

    Fun read! I ain't watched one of these Jurassic Worlds since that first one, which also said people are bored of dinosaurs the first time, an insane thing to me, so it's wild they said it again. As an aside, I haven't seen Premium Rush since it came out, but man, that was a fun movie, wasn't it?

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  • Terry Estep @terryestep.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 1, 2025

    Working the holiday, so I have a movie marathon going on my tablet: Norma Rae Premium Rush 9 to 5 Clerks The Hudsucker Proxy

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  • Colorful Kat 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✨ @goodkitty93.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 17, 2025

    Dude, Premium Rush is such an underrated blast of a movie that really made the bike carrier culture fun to see in an action movie and the stunt work is some of the best I ever seen in how they pull off so many bike tricks in the film. Also The Raid twinsies! Super badass film!

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  • ICE OUT State Fan @therealjoro.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 24, 2025

    Tonight's Movie Night movie is Premium Rush. Michael Shannon is a great psycho.

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  • mayonnaise spookboy @paintedsky.caBluesky · May 29, 2025

    the only movie i can think of that does the whole “speed + bikes” thing is Premium Rush but IIRC it’s a fixie so no gears

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  • Kamistry @kamistry.bikeBluesky · Jan 26, 2025

    People are all "I don't mind if you share fun facts during the movie" until you're 10 minutes into Premium Rush with the Discord and you haven't stopped blowing up their notifications (this will be me in a couple hours)

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