Joseph Gordon-Levitt, despite being around 30, makes a
living by couriering messages on a bicycle in New York . He’s a cocky hot-shot nicknamed Wilee (as in
Coyote) and of course he’s the best at what he does. He knows how to calculate the coolest way to
get through an intersection in a fraction of a second, and says everything in
the same bland-average-cool-guy dialect that almost every young leading man has
to master. It only bothers me in this
case because Gordon-Levitt is such a good actor; it seems it wouldn’t be that
hard for him to come up with something more interesting. Meanwhile, Michael Shannon continues his
quest to become Hollywood ’s
reigning psycho, here playing a dirty cop hot on Wilee’s trail. It’s mildly entertaining in places, but
nothing especially memorable. You know
you’re in trouble when the set-up for the biggest payoff in the movie involves
the hero getting to tell the villain, “Suck it, douchebag.”
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