Premium Rush, reviewed by Owen Gleiberman (Entertainment Weekly.com) http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20483133_20591837,00.html
After reading several reviews, I came across a review of Premium Rush, (reviewed by Owen Gleiberman). This particular review caught my attention because Gleiberman was very blunt about his opinion of Premium Rush.
He began his review with an overall definition/mental picture of a typical bike messenger in New York City, and goes on to discuss the plot of the movie. Gleiberman states, "Premium Rush (the title is
bike-messenger code for a high-priority assignment) is cleverly
structured so that the plot feels more complicated than it is". After saying this, he compares several scenes that are filmed in a similar manner to other movies to give the reader an idea of what to expect, "...and Koepp slows the action way, way down (sort of like the fight scenes in the Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock Holmes films)"
At the end of the review, he goes on to say. "Premium Rush earns its place as end-of-the-summer escapism, but I can't say that it's more than a well-done formula flick." This sentence again shows Gleiberman's frankness towards his review.
I was planning to use this review as a template for writing my own review because it has a structure that makes sense to me. Gleiberman's structure is simple: it starts with background information of the movie, the style of the scenes, a bit of character review, a synopsis of the plot and ends with the overall opinion of the movie.
Before reading this review (and other reviews of Premium Rush) I was planning to go see this movie with a few friends, but now I will suggest picking another movie, since it seems rather boring to me now.
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