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- 1994
- TV-14
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 56 m
- 1994
- TV-14
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 56 m
Summary Keanu Reeves stars as Jack Traven an LAPD SWAT team specialist who is sent to diffuse a bomb that a revenge-driven extortionist (Hopper) has planted on a bus. But until he does, Jack and passenger Sandra Bullock must keep the bus speeding through the streets of Los Angeles at more than 50 miles per hour -- or the bomb will explode. A hig...
Directed By: Jan de Bont
Written By: Graham Yost
- 1994
- TV-14
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 56 m
- 1994
- TV-14
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 56 m
Speed
78
8.5
Where to Watch
Summary Keanu Reeves stars as Jack Traven an LAPD SWAT team specialist who is sent to diffuse a bomb that a revenge-driven extortionist (Hopper) has planted on a bus. But until he does, Jack and passenger Sandra Bullock must keep the bus speeding through the streets of Los Angeles at more than 50 miles per hour -- or the bomb will explode. A hig...
Directed By: Jan de Bont
Written By: Graham Yost
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
78
88% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
12% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
78
88% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
12% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
The result is clean, delirious, and, yes, speedy—the best big-vehicle-in-peril movie since Clouzot's "The Wages of Fear."
The movie has two virtues essential to good pop thrillers. First, it plugs uncomplicatedly into lurking anxieties -- in this case the ones we brush aside when we daily surrender ourselves to mass transit in a world where the loonies are everywhere. Second, it is executed with panache and utter conviction.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 397 User Ratings
8.5
89% Positive
353 Ratings
353 Ratings
8% Mixed
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
3% Negative
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 397 User Ratings
8.5
89% Positive
353 Ratings
353 Ratings
8% Mixed
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
3% Negative
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
Why it rocks: It really thrills. Speed does what it wants to do very well, and it really keeps you on the edge of your seat. As well as all the intense bus stuff, in which you’re really excited, there’s also some character depth, and the last fight also ends the movie well.
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Super-exciting film! The action scenes, special effects, and acting by Sandra Bullock, Keanu Reeves, and Dennis Hopper are fantastic! Certain people do not like this movie, but it is a blast!
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Acclaimed cinematographer Jan De Bont's directing debut is a mindless, implausible, and thoroughly gripping adventure movie.
First-time helmer Jan De Bont, the ace lenser of most of Paul Verhoeven's films as well as "Die Hard" and numerous other large-scale pix, handles the action with great nimbleness and dexterity; film can hardly be faulted for its visual presentation of very complex action.
De Bont knows how to edit a pulse-pounding sequence, he knows how to keep the screen white-hot, and he sure knows how to blow things up real good. What he doesn't know is how to slow down - this premise is perfect for him.
In a film like this, timing is everything, and everyone from the stunt coordinators to the crew-at-large seems to have gotten it right the first time.
The plot becomes so overextended, as Reeves and Hopper wage their endless public transportation battle, even the hardest Die-Harders will consider leaping off way before the final stop.
Pop quiz, hot shot. 20th Century Fox makes a movie where a city bus has to stay above 50mph due to Dennis Hopper planting a bomb on it. What do you do? I say see this film as it is my favorite film of the 1990s. I'm not gonna give out any spoilers. So you have to see this movie to know why I think it's a great film.
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On the one side great action, nonstop adrenaline, top stunts and effects.
BUT: the story has so many logical mistakes. So it is another entertaining movie for the masses.
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Après l'immeuble, l'aéroport, le train, le bateau... (et quoi d'autre encore ? j'en oublie sûrement) voici Die Hard dans le bus et en dessous aussi. Le prochain, ils le feront dans une cabine téléphonique... quoique, je crois que ç'a déjà été fait... en fait. Alors, pourquoi pas dans un frigidaire ?
Quoi qu'il en soit, le machin est bouclé en moins d'une heure et demi, ce qui s'avère très bénéfique en terme d'action (évidemment) mais aussi de rythme : ici, c'est mené tambour battant et Keanu ne balance aucune joke (sauf à la toute fin mais ça tombe à plat...) et il reste en outre toujours habillé correctement au contraire de l'autre tanche au débardeur crado qui devrait faire la pub pour Ariel.
Le cabotin, c'est ce bon vieux Dennis Hooper qui s'y connaît en crevard très vindicatif et il le fait très bien, presque avec sobriété ma foi... La cocotte Bullock est légèrement hystérique cependant mais rien de méchant. Et Keanu est sérieux.
Malgré le poids des ans (1994 quand même) Speed est resté spectaculaire et on en a pour son argent. Dommage que la réalisation soit un brin perfectible : la caméra a le mal de mer et c'est trop souvent zoomé exagérément. Mais à côté des Bay, Liman, Greengrass et cons(pagnie) et autres trouducs du cinéma moderne, on dirait du Kubrick.
Assez divertissant donc, clairement efficace mais un peu juste tout de même, ce Speed.
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Speed kills.
A very entertaining action film with a simple plot and little to no character development. In this case, story wasn't needed all that much as suspense was the formula for its substance.
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Production Company
The Mark Gordon Company,
Twentieth Century Fox
Release Date Jun 10, 1994
Duration 1 h 56 m
Rating TV-14
Tagline Get ready for rush hour.
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
MTV Movie + TV Awards
• 5 Wins & 9 Nominations
Awards Circuit Community Awards
• 2 Wins & 5 Nominations
