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Speed, 1994

Starring: Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock

Directed by: Jan de Bont

Written by: Graham Yost

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 116 min

MPAA Rating: R

Rating:7.2

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The mood of Speed is exciting, rough, and suspenseful. The plot centers around a hijacking, unlikely partners, and hostages. It is an action and thriller movie. Stylistically, Speed is episodic. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The pacing is fast. Speed takes place, at least partly, on a train. The setting is Los Angeles. It happens in the 1990s. Speed is known for being a modern classic, a blockbuster, and an award winner. It is especially suggested for teens and a boys' night. Note that it includes violent content.

Summary of Speed

SPEED: A mad bomber (Dennis Hopper) is out for revenge against LAPD rookie cop Jack Traven (Keanu Reeves), who, with the help of his partner, Harry Temple (Jeff Daniels), foils the criminals' plot to extort money from the city by holding hostage an elevator full of people. He plants a bomb on a bus, set to arm itself when the vehicle hits 50 mph, and detonate if it drops below that speed. The hero, with the help of a beautiful passenger named Annie (Sandra Bullock), must defuse the explosive device before the bus runs out of gas. This fast-paced thriller received two Academy Awards for Best Sound and Best Sound Effects Editing, as well as a nomination for Best Film Editing.

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Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	10 June 1994
Runtime:	116 min
Awards:	Academy Awards

Awards

Awarded Best Sound at the 1994 Academy Awards

Awarded Best Sound Effects Editing at the 1994 Academy Awards

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Keanu Reeves

as Officer Jack Traven

Sandra Bullock

as Annie Porter

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Time

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.... Full Review

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by: Richard Schickel

The New Yorker

The result is clean, delirious, and, yes, speedy—the best big-vehicle-in-peril movie since Clouzot's "The Wages of Fear." Full Review

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by: Anthony Lane

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24.January.2009
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by: htaule
htaule rated this movie10/10Must See

great action

This one kept me excited all the way. We forget now, but it was original at the time (not a lot of films about hijacking a bus). Dennis Hopper is brilliant as alway as the bad guy. One of the best car/bus chases I've ever seen. Read and rate it

13.August.2008
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by: rotem.nevgaunker
rotem.nevgaunker rated this movie8/10Great

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