SummaryKeanu 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 high-octane ... Read More
Directed By:Jan de Bont
Written By:Graham Yost
Speed
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Generally Favorable
78
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
88% Positive
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100
The result is clean, delirious, and, yes, speedy—the best big-vehicle-in-peril movie since Clouzot's "The Wages of Fear."
90
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
Generally Favorable
86% Positive
245 Ratings
245 Ratings
13% Mixed
38 Ratings
38 Ratings
1% Negative
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Apr 9, 2023
10
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.
Oct 9, 2022
10
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!
88
Acclaimed cinematographer Jan De Bont's directing debut is a mindless, implausible, and thoroughly gripping adventure movie.
80
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.
75
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.
67
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.
40
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.
Mar 22, 2021
10
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.
Jan 26, 2021
6
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.
Sep 18, 2019
6
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.
Production Company:
- Twentieth Century Fox
- The Mark Gordon Company
Release Date:Jun 10, 1994
Duration:1 h 56 m
Rating:R
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
