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Mood:
- RoughSuspensefulExciting
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Plot:
- HostagesOne Man ArmyUnlikely PartnersRace Against TimeRescueSave the DayHijackingChases and Races more...
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Genres:
- ActionThriller
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century90s
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Place:
- Los AngelesTrain
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Audience:
- Boys' NightTeens
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Praise:
- Award WinnerBlockbusterCritically AcclaimedModern ClassicOscar WinnerPrestigious Awards
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Style:
- EpisodicRoad Movie
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticFast
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Flag:
- Violent Content
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Speed, 1994
English
USA
Profile of Speed
The mood of Speed is exciting, rough, and suspenseful. The plot centers around a hijacking, unlikely partners, and a one-man army. It is an action and thriller movie. Stylistically, Speed is episodic and has a road movie structure. 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.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 10 June 1994 |
| Runtime: | 116 min |
| Awards: | Academy Awards |
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as Officer Jack Traven
as Annie Porter
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Critics Reviews
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....
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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."
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- by: Anthony Lane
Users Reviews
This is really the best movie ever made!
- 24.January.2009
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- by: htaule
- htaule rated this movie
10/10Must See
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.
- 13.August.2008
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- by: rotem.nevgaunker
- rotem.nevgaunker rated this movie8/10Great
