“Premium Rush” stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Wilee, a Columbia Law dropout-turned-bike messenger, who must deliver an important package from Lerner Hall to Chinatown right away.
First things first: Columbia is depicted a little imprecisely, but it ends up looking kind of awesome. Lerner C555 becomes a spacious student café. There are bike racks and food carts on campus, in useful locations!
In one dramatic scene, Roone turns into a huge, sinister, interrogation room (I laughed, inappropriately). And Lerner somehow delivers a package on time.
There is a great reference to our Columbia, however, when Wilee angrily phones his dispatcher, suspicious that his package contains illegal drugs. The dispatcher protests: “It can’t be drugs! This package is from a highly respected east coast college!” Then, in a secret aside, he muses: “Probably drugs…”
