| | Speed DVD
| Category | Action/Adventure DVDs, Action Movies, Thriller Videos, Recommended, Terrorism, Psychos, On-The-Road, On-The-Run, Blockbuster, AFI Top 100 Thrills | | Starring | Sandra Bullock, Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Jeff Daniels, Alan Ruck, Joe Morton, Carlos Carrasco | | Director | Jan de Bont | | Composer | Mark Mancina | | Costume Designer | Ellen Mirojnick | | Director of Photography | Andrzej Bartkowiak | | Editor | John Wright | | Producer | Mark Gordon | | Production Designer | Jackson De Govia | | Screenwriter | Joss Whedon, Graham Yost |
English AC-3 Jack Traven is a risk-taking SWAT Team officer, pitted against a mad-bomber, Howard Payne. Howard has a pattern of coming up with ingenious, deadly schemes: for example, he rigs an L.A. bus so that, after it reaches a speed of 50 mph, it will explode if it slows to below that rate. 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.
Directorial debut for cinematographer Jan De Bont.
Released theatrically in the USA June 10, 1994.
Shot in Panavision Widescreen.
Rated BBFC 15 by the British Board of Film Classification.
Copyright 1994 20th Century Fox Film Corporation. Speed Reviews: "SPEED has become a classic action thriller, and rightly so. It was made in the predigital days when special effects looked real because most of them were real..."Wall Street Journal "...[De Bont] delivers a wild ride that's worth the fare..." - Recommended
-- John M. Korpics, Premiere "...A crackling blend of suspense and fun that gives you the rush of a runaway roller coaster..."
-- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone "...Delivers wall-to-wall action....[Reeves has] become an actor of real charisma....Hopper finds new ways to convey crazy menace..."
-- Janet Maslin, New York Times "...[A] dazzling action thriller....Even Hitchcock, I think, would have approved..." -- Rating: A
-- Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly "...It's one of those won't quit action pics that make Hollywood the frequent envy of world cinema..." -- 3 1/2 out of 4 stars-- Mike Clark, USA Today "...Invigorating....De Bont and his team have turned in a visually sophisticated piece of mayhem that makes the implausible plausible and keeps the thrills coming..."
-- Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times "...It's a smart, inventive thriller....A great entertainment..."
-- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times Speed | Studio | 20th Century Fox | | Orig Year | 1994 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  4166  | | CD Universe Part number | 1266306 | | Catalog number | 4109164 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Aug 14, 2001 | | Rating | R (MPAA) | | Rating Reason | for violence and language | | Also Known As | Clanches! | | Running Time | 115 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen | | Movie Details | Color; Dolby Surround Sound; Stereo Sound; Letter Boxed; Widescreen |
Speed Movie Review  Bad transfer
The sound is good, but the transfer dont liked, have too much visual noise.
The cost is to higt for the movie because the transfer have much noise don't have making, no spansh language, no special features, its a singuel layer is not a MPEG 2 is oder format (AVC 14 meg per second) and normaly is 25 mega bits per second. What happend with this HD DISC ande finaly cost me 32 dollars my god
15 dolars for that old movie is ok
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Bad transfer
The sound is good, but the transfer dont liked, have too much visual noise
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This review is for a different format. Speed
Worth watching!
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This review is for a different format.  EL SPEEED!
This movie is an instant classic and it started a new genre of movies by taking the action thrillers to the next level.
What more can I say, if you haven't seen this movie, rent it or better yet buy it, you won't be dissapointed. It's a good movie to have in case you ever find yourself in a bus that has bomb and can't go below 50mph. Then you'll know what to do.
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UNIMAGINABLE HIGH OCTANE THRILLER!!!!
IMAGINE A CROWDED BUS TRAVELING HIGHER AT 55MPH, GOING THROUGH RED LIGHTS, STOP LIGHTS, AND EVERYTHING ELSE IMAGINABLE WITH THE UNCONCEIVABLE INTENTION THAT IT'S BOOBY TRAPPED AND MUST NOT GO UNDER 55MPH!!!! ADD A HELPLESS YOUNG FEMALE DRIVER (SANDRA BULLOCK), A BUSLOAD OF PETRIFIED VICTIMS, AND A DASHING YOUNG HERO (A SWAT OFFICIAL KEANU REEVES) WHO MUST SAVE THEM ALL FROM CERTAIN DEATH, LIKE A REAL SATURDAY MATINEE CLIFFHANGER, IN CLUDING ON SADISTIC DERANGED VILLAIN (DENNIS HOPPER) WHO WILL STOP AT NOTHING TO CARRY OUT HIS SINISTER PLOT OF REVENGE, AT THE COST OF ALL INVOLVED; AND YOU HAVE THE PERFECT MAKINGS OF THE GREATEST THRILLER SINCE "THE PERILS OF PAULINE" EVER PUT ON THE SIVER SCREEN! HOPPER IS ONE VILLIAN YOU HATE SO MUCH, YOU WAIT TILL HE DIES! (MUCH LIKE JASON ISSACS'S CHARACTER IN "THE PATRIOT" WITH MEL GIBSON!) THIS IS ONE MOVIE BOUND TO BE A CLASSIC! FULL OF EXPLOSIVE SPECIAL-EFFECTS, HIGH OCTANE EXCITEMENT, THRILLS NAD DANGER AT EVERY TURN. AND THE THRILLS KEEP COMING! FROM OUT-OF-CONTROL BUS, TO OUT-OF-CONTROL SUBWAY TRAIN, THE PACE IS FAST, FURIOUS, AND ALWAYS DANGEROUS!!!! IF YOU ARE A THRILL SEEKER LOOKING FOR HIGH OCTANE EXCITEMENT, SPECIAL-EFFECT THRILLS AND EXPLOSIONS THAT WILL BLOW YOU AWAY, AND EDGE-OF-YOU-SEAT SUSPENSE AND DANGER, THEN THIS VIDEO IS FOR YOU!!!! UNBELIEVABLE!!!! UNIMAGINABLE!!!! UNREALISTIC!!!! EXPLOSIVE!!!! SURPRISES AND THRILLS AROUND EVERY CORNER!!!! YOU'VE GOT TO SEE IT TO BELIEVE IT!!!!
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