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Speed
A city bus with passengers are held hostage when a bomb planted on it is set to detonate if the bus slows down or anyone tries to escape. It is now the duty of a young LAPD cop to rescue the civilians.
20 April 1949, Bristol, England, UK
May 13, 1936 in Pensacola, Florida, USA
18 August 1961, Richmond, California, USA
18 September 1949, Gadsden, Alabama, USA
27 May 1955, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
22 January 1962, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
August 11, 2014
Speed kills -- it kills wit, character, charm and empathy. But it does go fast. Since that is its sole reason for existence, one must say it achieves its narrow goal brilliantly.
July 10, 2014
It's easy to poke fun at some of the more far-fetched scenes and, at times, cheesy dialogue, but this is still one hell of an action movie.
July 30, 2013
Believe it or not, the most exciting movie of the year takes place mainly in an elevator, on a city bus and on a train car.
July 30, 2013
Pure adrenaline-pumping entertainment of the highest order.
July 30, 2013
The deft arabesques of cinematographer Andrzej Bartkowiak juice up the suspense, and if you're not too put off by the sheer ridiculousness of the story you won't be bored.
July 30, 2013
A riotously enjoyable locomotive of action, Speed is driven by a premise of such crystalline purity that its ridiculousness becomes part of the fun.
July 30, 2013
The result is clean, delirious, and, yes, speedy -- the best big-vehicle-in-peril movie since Clouzot's The Wages of Fear.
July 30, 2013
Action directing is a put-up-or-shut-up game, a skill that can't be faked or finessed; even a 10-year-old can tell if you've got it or not. And on the evidence of the invigorating Speed, Jan De Bont has definitely got it.
August 11, 2014
It's more than a mere knockoff. It's a clever, carefully constructed action machine that generates lots of high-octane thrills and spills. What it lacks in originality, it more than makes up for in full-throttle pacing.
July 30, 2013
If you have a thirst for hard action and suspense of a high order, Speed satisfies big-time.
August 11, 2014
De Bont has assembled it with masterly precision. And Speed looks terrific. There are breathtaking aerial shots, mind-boggling stunts, and camera positioning that you just don't expect. It's a rocketing eyeful.
July 30, 2013
Keanu Reeves and Dennis Hopper are fun to watch as the dueling protagonists, and Sandra Bullock is fetching as an astonished commuter who finds herself behind the steering wheel.
