Speed

Excellent movie. Saw this years ago when it was originally in the theaters. At this price point it's a must have addition to my collection of over 300 movies. michaelpaul50

Saw this in the theatre a thousand years ago....still good. Don't have to think much to enjoy it. Arrived on time in great condition.

Our three main characters are Dennis Hopper (the “wronged“ villain) with Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock as our heroes. Jeff Daniels play a supporting role and does a great job throughout the movie until the end. ⚫️SPOILER: Basically, the villain is a former cop who was injured on the job and feels he was treated poorly when he was retired. He wants compensation so he has decided to blackmail the city for money. He makes an attempt with elevators which is foiled by Kiana Reaves and Jeff Daniels as special detail police officers. Since our Villain is foiled so he decides to wire a public bus with a bomb to initialize a detonator to explode if the bus travels below 50 mph. The villain and our heroes provide us with excellent fast-paced drama until the very end. Excellent story and premium acting by all! 😉👍 A very good buy.

This is a favorite movie of mine. I watched it previously and just watched it twice in the last few days. While as always, there are plot inconsistencies, but they do not detract from the pleasure of the movie. Dennis Hopper plays the bad guy who wants adn believes he is entitled to $3.7 million in retirement pay. The movie is in 3 parrts. First Hopper is trying threatening tp kill a bunch of people in an elevator. Blackmail on Hopper's part to get the $3.7 million. Kenu Reeves as Jack Travel and his partner stop him and believe they have killed him. However, Hopper survives and next threatens to blow up a fully loaded bus in the second phase. Bacause Hopper wants Jack T dead and his money, there are two goals his time. The gurgeous Sandra Bullock tranformed into the bus driver. Eventually after many excitements, Hopper is stopped again, although the $3.7 miillion is paid. Reeves and Bullock are falling in love. The third phase is Reeves, Bullock and Hopper on a subway train. Reeves and Bullock survive a train crash. And the ending is Rreeves and Bullock getting all mushy (as Bullock says), I highly recommend the movie for anyone who likes bad guy provding a lot of action with a substanial love interest.

Speed is a different type of action film that manages to be suspenseful and intense. While it is an action film, it's also a bit of a thriller too. There's not a whole lot of fighting or shootouts going on, it's all mainly on a bus. In case if you don't already know, Speed is about a SWAT bomb disposal officer who gets caught up in a bit of a cat & mouse kind of situation with a bomber, who has rigged a bus to explode if it goes under 50 miles per hour unless if he's paid millions of dollars, forcing him to board and keep the bus going in the streets and highways of LA. Now, a premise like this in the early 90s isn't easy to sell or pull off. Action films were expected to take place in a large enough area where the hero can fight a bunch of bad buys, but this was unique as there was only one bad buy and the running time taking place almost entirely on a bus. Michael Bay at one point wanted to direct (thankfully, he never got the chance to do so), and studios refused to produce it because they felt no audience would want to see it. But it found a home with 20th Century Fox, who agreed to produce the movie if it had more action scenes. Before Keanu Reeves was picked for the main lead, Tom Cruise, Weasley Snipes, and Woody Harrelson were considered. To be honest, I'm surprised this movie was even made with so many going it against during the time it was made. The very fact that Keanu Reeves got the main role over many other better well-known action stars is a surprise. But anyway, enough on the history of the movie, let's talk about the film itself. What separates Speed from other action flicks like Die Hard, Rambo, Cash & Tango, Commando, and Terminator is simply that it manages to be entertaining and suspenseful without much action. The true attention grabber are the things the bus has to go through in order to stay above 50 miles per hour. And the villain of this movie (played amazingly by Dennis Hopper) is more like a puppet master, managing to manipulate and control what is going on without the need of henchmen. Keanu Reeves as Jack does an amazing job portraying a more vulnerable hero, someone who reacts to the situations around him and doesn't always know what to do, but it's in those moments when he does take action shows why he is a hero. He doesn't mow down a bunch of bad guys, he's an officer who wants to protect the innocent. Another great addition to the cast who helps the film stand out even more is Sandra Bullock as Annie, who is pretty much the secondary hero of the movie. Sure, she is a love interest, but her role goes far beyond that. I won't give too much away, just see what I mean. All I will say is that her role helped in giving females more action roles. My only issue with the movie is in its 3rd act. I won't spoil it, so I'll just say that I wish it was rewritten to satisfy the studio and still keep with the suspenseful nature of the film. I get why it was done but it felt unnecessary. I'll give Speed a rating of 7/10.

fast paced action...cliffhanger without the cliffs :)

Know what this is? It's a '90s update of what Buster Keaton and "The Perils of Pauline" gave the earliest movie audiences at the dawn of cinema. If fact, you could turn off the volume and enjoy it as a silent flick. That's ironic: the only Academy Awards it won were for sound design and sound effects. It's also what James Bond movies became in the '70s: thrill spectacles with no plot to speak of. None of this is to dismiss "Speed." For what it is—a two-hour roller-coaster with not one but three climaxes—it's one of the best. The real stars of this show are the stunt artists, Jan de Bont (the director, who knew where to put the camera), the photographers (who recorded it), and the film editors (who cut the film together to split-seconds). Most of the hazardous effects were practical, actually created onsite. Keanu Reaves performed one stunt so dangerous that it nearly gave de Bont a coronary. The most famous stunt, a bus leap across the wide gap on a superhighway, was done with CGI. We'll forgive that. While filming the stunt artists were convinced it could never be done in real life. Later, another set of stunt experts and physicists proved that it would have killed a stunt expert who attempted it. Roger Ebert called this a "bruised forearm movie": one where the person seated beside you clutches your forearm so tightly that it gives you a hematoma. If that's what you want to watch tonight, you'll not be disappointed.

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Perfection

Der Fahrstuhl sitzt mitten im Hochhaus fest, ein Bus muss über 50 km/h gehalten werden, sonst wird er in die Luft gesprengt, Verfolgungsjagden ' das und mehr hat dieser Film zu bieten, der nicht nur die ganze Laufzeit über die Spannung hält, sondern auch noch gute Schauspieler aufzuweisen hat, die das ganze vervollkommnen. Ein Actionfilm der Klasse 1A, so würde ich diesen Streifen treffend benennen, denn genau das bekommt man auch haargenau serviert und wird nicht in einer einzigen Sekunde enttäuscht. Es gibt einfach nichts was in diesem Film nicht passt. Man wird von Sekunde eins an den Stuhl gefesselt und in eine halsbrecherische Geschichte hineingeworfen, in einen Strudel, der einem zum Schluss keuchend und nach Luft schnappend wieder ausspuckt. Und dann weiß man, wenn man den Film hinter sich hat, dass es ganz sicher nicht das letzte Mal war, dass man ihn gesehen hat. Man muss ihn einfach sich wieder und wieder ansehen und genießen, Keanu Reeves und Sandra Bullock zu sehen, wie sie die spannende Busfahrt meistern, Dennis Hopper bei seinem psychiatischen Spiel beobachten und sich fesseln lassen. Eigentlich ist die Geschichte auch nicht wirklich etwas neues, aber was macht das schon, wenn sie so perfekt und spannend umgesetzt wird? Es gibt keine einzige Verschnaufpause; der Zuschauer wird von einem Tatort zum nächsten gerissen und findet sich immer wieder in neuen, elektrisierenden Situationen wieder. Vom Fahrstuhl wird zum Bus gewechselt, von dort zur U-bahn und wenn dann der Abspann kommt will man eigentlich noch mehr von allem, denn es war einfach zu gut. Ein Bonbon, das man niemals fertig lutschen möchte und einfach wieder und wieder genießen möchte. Die Darsteller machen ihre Arbeit auch sehr gut und freuen sich sichtlich, die Abenteuer zu bestehen. Sie halten das Publikum bei Laune, und überzeugen es auch mit einer nebenher laufenden Liebesgeschichte zwischen Annie und Jack. Sie entwickelt sich während der Busfahrt und kommt von ganz natürlich und gibt ein nettes Extra, das den Spannungsfaktor noch zusätzlich erhöht und unsere Herzen schneller schlagen lässt. Sandra Bullock als Annie Porter muss sich eigentlich nur darum kümmern den Bus sicher zu lenken und macht ihr Sache so gut wie es in dieser Situation eben gemacht werden kann und Keanu Reeves überzeugt ebenfalls als alles riskierender und teils wahnsinnig erscheinender Polizist (Annie: 'You're nuts!' ' wenn er sich unter den fahrenden Bus begibt). Dennis Hopper jagt uns durch sein Spiel Angst ein und gibt einen Psychiater der sich mit Jack unterhält und so tut, als wäre er ja gar nicht so böse und das ganze auch nicht falsch. Die anderen Schauspieler tragen auch zum Großen ganzen gut bei und erledigen ihre Rollen. Harry als Jacks Freund ist ein launiger Offizier, von dem man eigentlich nie richtig weiß was man von ihm halten soll und als er dann in die Luft gesprengt wird tut es einem auch nicht so weh. Vielleicht denkt man kurz daran, dass Jack einen Freund verloren hat, lieber konzentriert man sich aber auf die spannende Handlung und vergisst das schnell. Es soll ja auch eigentlich nur die Wahnsinnigkeit und Brutalität des Erpressers bezeugen. Fazit: Ein Film, der einem keine Sekunde Verschnaufpause gönnt und einen mitreißt in eine fesselnde Verfolgungsjagd und coolen Actionszenen. Diesen Film sollte man auf jeden Fall nicht missen! Unterhaltungswert 100%!

The DVD Speed was received in great condition no problems with playback on my DVD player no scratches on the actual DVD and also i was able to enjoy this classic action movie with a great performances from Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Dennis Hopper, Jeff Daniels, and of course Joe Morton who's great in this movie. Great to watch this movie on it's 30th Anniversary the action the thrills the suspense never stops as soon as the film starts great stunt work great score and most importantly you care about the characters on the bus still a great concept, Pop Quiz "There's a bomb on a bus if it goes below 50MPH the bus explodes what do you do"? They don't make them like they used to is a phrase that gets said a lot but in terms of Speed it is certainly true it's still a thrill ride of a movie after all these years.

Ce film est magnifique je l'ai regardé je ne sais combien de fois et il me fait toujours plaisir de le revoir par contre je me retrouve en double pour mon DVD j'ai demandé à un retour j'ai vu que c'est compliqué j'ai laissé tomber je donne quand même 5 étoiles pour le film