"The action is inventive, extensive and exciting, a bang-up job by cinematographer Mitchell Amundsen, one of the town's hot new shooters."
Los Angeles Times

3.5 stars out of 4 -- "This is an impressively skilled production that credits about a dozen stunt riders and even more CGI techs, and is never less than convincing as it shows messengers speeding fearlessly into traffic..."
Chicago Sun-Times

"[A] ticking-clock thriller about a New York bicycle messenger who has to get from here to there without being taken out. Stuffed with zingers and zippy stunts..."
New York Times

"Gordon-Levitt continues to prove that he's an intriguingly unconventional action hero..."
Movieline

3 stars out of 5 -- "PREMIUM RUSH has a rewarding relentlessness and a payoff that suggests that whirring city that surrounds us in is full of supporters who see past the system.
Box Office

"A quick pace and always-enjoyable lead Joseph Gordon-Levitt will please moviegoers..."
Hollywood Reporter

3 stars out of 5 -- "[W]ith Koepp directing slickly...the result plays like a two-wheeled half-SPEED..."
Total Film