JAKE COYLE, AP Entertainment Writer
Let’s just be glad Smell-O-Vision never caught on.
Thankfully, the musky odor of sweaty bike messengers doesn’t emanate from “Premium Rush,” an enjoyable, two-wheeled action film and flashy ode to the subculture of urban couriers.
It’s a silly movie predicated on a simple premise, but “Premium Rush” is satisfying B-movie entertainment that moves with the swiftness of a Schwinn – a ride made fun particularly by Michael Shannon’s enthrallingly comic performance as a dirty cop in mad pursuit of a bike messenger’s cargo.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Wilee, a hardened New York City messenger who’s forsaken a promising career in law for the freedom of riding the city’s congested streets. His dispatch (Aasif Mandvi) sends him on a seemingly innocuous delivery, picking up an envelope at Columbia University to be dropped off in Chinatown before 7 p.m.