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Speed

Keanu Reeves (Actor), Dennis Hopper (Actor), Jan de Bont (Director) | Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | Format: VHS Tape
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (177 customer reviews)

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Everything clicked in this 1994 action hit, from the premise (a city bus has to keep moving at 50 mph or blow up) to the two leads (the usually inscrutable Keanu Reeves and the cute-as-a-button Sandra Bullock) to the villain (Dennis Hopper in psycho mode) to the director (Jan De Bont, who made this film hit the ground running with an edge-of-your-seat opening sequence on a broken elevator). This is the sort of movie that becomes a prototype for a thousand lesser films (including De Bont's lousy sequel, Speed 2: Cruise Control), but Speed really is a one-of-a-kind experience almost anyone can enjoy. --Tom Keogh

Additional Features

Fox puts the pedal to the metal for the two-disc Five Star edition of the high-velocity action hit. Check out the five brand-new production featurettes, especially the behind-the-scenes revelations of the two action highlights of the film--the bus jump and the subway crash--and then get a different angle (actually eight different angles) on the scenes in the multiangle comparisons. The highlight of the dozens of supplements, however, is the commentary on disc 1. Jan de Bont's reflective take is interesting if dry, but the high-spirited, back-and-forth duet by screenwriter Graham Yost and producer Mark Gordon, longtime friends and collaborators, has the feel of a vaudeville comedy act. All energy and ego, this funny, fast, and furious commentary is highly informative (tidbit: the script originally had a different villain) and unflaggingly entertaining. Like the bus, it never drops below 50 mph. --Sean Axmaker

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solid action,nail biting tension Aug 20 2007
By falcon TOP 1000 REVIEWER
Format:DVD
before this movie,who knew Keanu Reeves could be a credible action
hero?Reeves impressed me with this effort.he put on a few pounds of
muscle for this one.Sandra Bullock is also in this one,and although her
character is likable,she just doesn't make the same impression as
Reeves does.i guess part of the reason is that her character really
isn't the focus,which can't really be blamed on her.Dennis hopper has a
nice turn as a sadistic villain.aside from the acting though,there are
a lot of good things about this movie.one is the relentless action.this
thing really movies.it's also a real nail biter at times.the writing by
Graham Yost is also good,as is the direction of Jan de Bont.as far as
action movies go,this one is right up there,in my opinion.i give
"Speed" a solid 4/5
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I keep coming back July 6 2004
Format:DVD
SPEED has been one of the handful of movies made in the last ten years that I keep coming back to again and again when I need an action fix. I think it's partly because its premise is so impossibly simple: there's a bomb on a bus that will go boom if the bus goes below 50 miles per hour. That's it. I also think it's also because for all the noise and action, it really doesn't take itself too seriously. Everyone, even the usually sulking Jeff Daniels, appears to be having a good time. And, of course, it doesn't hurt to have the maniacal Dennis Hopper performing opposite Keanu Reeves who is properly underplaying his role as HERO.

SPEED, I admit, is a no-brainer. But if I wanted to watch something cerebral and intellectual, there are plenty of others to choose from. I mean, from which to choose.

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An exciting rollercoaster ride Jun 3 2004
By A Customer
Format:DVD
This film is a terrific action adventure with an appealing hero and heroine, great stunts and special effects and a psycho villain who isn't as smart as he thinks he is. The movie races along through three tense episodes involving patrons on a high-rise elevator, passengers caught on a runaway city bus and a rapid transit train coursing through the dark tunnels of the under-construction Los Angeles subway system. Good-guy Jack Traven [Keanu Reeves] gets a great assist from feisty Annie Porter [Sandra Bullock] as she guides the bus on a wild ride on LA's freeways and busy streets while crazed extortionist Howard Payne [Dennis Hopper] does his best to make sure his diabolical plan doesn't fail. Even if the picture seems to borrow elements from some popular action films, this movie is a rollercoaster ride from start to finish and fans of exciting train action sequences will really enjoy the film's endgame which is a climactic struggle between good and evil.
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Most recent customer reviews
Lift,bus,train. 16th april 2004.
A great film for the actions. It starts off in a lift that breaks down, then it goes onto a bus that once it reaches 50mile an hour, it can't go below that speed cos there is a... Read more
Published on April 16 2004 by Kathryn Pointon
One of the best action films I've seen.
Keanu Reeves is a rarity: he's a second-rate actor (at least compared to other big movie stars like Mel Gibson and Harrison Ford) who has kept his career afloat courtesy of a... Read more
Published on Mar 19 2004 by Eric
UNIMAGINABLE HIGH OCTANE THRILLER!!!!
IMAGINE A CROWDED BUS OF PETRIFIED PASSENGERS GOING 55MPH, GOING THROUGH RED LIGHTS, STOP SIGNS, AND EVERYTHING ELSE IMAGINABLE, WITH THE UNCONCEIVABLE CONTENTION THAT IT IS BOOBY... Read more
Published on Feb 20 2004 by MUSICPOET
Speed... Is it really what I need?
Ok, when I watched it in the cinemas, it was great. The action was there, the intense feeling was there (its like "24", only its almost 2 hours long), you grip on to your... Read more
Published on Feb 13 2004 by C.S Lee
Unintentionally hilarious
This movie is excellent - if you don't realise that it is supposed to be serious. If you think that it is a parody of action movies then it is great. Read more
Published on Jan 2 2004
"I feel the need. The need for speeeeeeeed!"
You're going to say one thing after watching "Speed," and that will be "Whoa." This is an action film as exhausting as "Die Hard" and as exhilarating... Read more
Published on Dec 3 2003 by John
Great action movie
I bought this movie a few years back, and I can still enjoy it. This movie was praised because it was a great movie. Read more
Published on Dec 3 2003
This movie is the best i have ever seen!!!
anyone I know that I got to watch this movie with me Liked it alot!it deserves Five stars,I wish I could go over 5.all of the action and stunts are just absoluteley fantastic. Read more
Published on Nov 16 2003 by Cletus Tremaine
you take a bus and put Neo on it and you got a good movie
Keanu(aka Neo) is trying to save a bus load of people from trying to blow up from a bomb under neath the bus when it hits 50 mph. Read more
Published on Nov 6 2003 by Michael Bolts
What a ride!
I saw bits and pieces of this movie a few years ago, and didn't think much of it. Last night I watched it all the way through for the first time. What a ride! Read more
Published on Oct 22 2003 by Jane James
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