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Well going into the movie I thought it was going to be way too silly to sit through, but my Netflix queue eventually worked its way down to it, and I was not totally wrong. The movie was action packed… not in the way that someone would actually die, because it was billed as a thrill ride that didn't stop until the package was delivered and if someone had died in a wreck with a car, then they would have had to addressed it, which would have slowed down the pace of the movie for a bit, therefore negating the constant thrill ride aspect.

In terms of corniness, i'll get the bad out of the way first. Whenever Joseph Gordon-Levitt sees different routes for his bike to take through traffic, the animations are very cartoonish looking. I mean its like Lost’s yellow submarine all over again, and if you watched Lost it literally looked like the yellow submarine CGI was made in the 70s when some of the episodes were set… idk maybe that’s a copout JJ Abrams can use.

While the crash simulations would terribly rendered, the action of the film and the goal he is trying to accomplish really was entertaining… and you if you saw me you would know I have no good feelings towards bikes or any that use them. According to the film there are 1500 bicycle couriers in New York city, which is surprising to me in this age of electronic everything, and then kind of leads me to think that its mostly illegal, or my personal favorite color of dealings, grey, that the couriers mostly carry… then again I have lived in a city and traffic is ridiculous and line crew are constantly cutting power to this or that.

The movie centers around Joseph Gordon-Levitt who is a bike courier in New York, that receives a package to deliver from a scared girl, problem is a crooked detective is after the package, and Wiley (Gordon-Levitt’s character) doesn't understand what he is carrying. While the package is seemingly associated with a bad crowd, it actually turns out to be for a noble cause.

I give the movie 3.6 head on collisions with a New York taxi out of 5.

Oh and apparently Joseph Gordon-Levitt (damn I wish he had a shorter name) did a lot of the stunts himself. One so much that he had to go to the hospital.