Real Life PREMIUM RUSH

So this weekend Joseph Gordon Levitt's newest movie isn't some brilliant indie flick or some thinking man's action a la INCEPTION. No, in fact it's a movie about, like, a bicycle messenger running from Michael or something, sure to be awful - or at best like a bike version of XXX. Yes, in spite of all the ad buys they've placed during Network A programming and the X Games, I will not be seeing PREMIUM RUSH.

But the worst part is that there's already a documentary about street messengers racing at freakishly high speeds through busy metropolises and, far from being on cordoned-off sets with well-choreographed near-misses it's FUCKING REAL!

Yeah, check it out, apparently for years there've been these bike messenger street races. And in LINE OF SIGHT, Lucas Brunelle has pulled together these breathless races through crowded city traffic on small hunks of rolling alloy into a documentary sure to raise your heartrate, get your palms sweaty, and certainly captivate you much more than the JGL flick. Sorry, buddy but, hell, there are real heroes who do for free what you get paid millions of dollars to pretend to do. And why not support them directly instead of a Hollywood homage to them? Maybe then they'll be able to afford some protection.

Enjoy the flick - and happy Friday.

- Ryan