Speed (Widescreen Edition)

One of the best action movies ever. I was pleased with the dvd because of all the extras that you don't get with just a vhs copy. If you like this movie, you will really enjoy the dvd version of it.

Very few people remember Sandra Bullock starring on the short-lived CBS sitcom Working Girl which was based on the 1988 20th Century Fox film of the same title starring Harrison Ford,Melanie Griffith and Sigourney Weaver. Very few remember Bullock's appearance in the 1991 film LOVE POTION #9. This film catapulted her to superstardom. She stars opposite Keanu Reeves and all hell breaks loose with both of them recklessly driving commercial buses. In the twelve years since this film debuted on the big screen,Bullock relentlessly made films to this very day. Also back in 1994,Hollywood had another megastar,Jim Carrey whose starring debut ACE VENTURA-PET DETECTIVE grossed over $5 million at the box office. Unfortunately,SPEED 2,released in 1997,never acuumulated audiences as large as the ones who saw the first film.

Speed was an intense movie. It had action in it and many parts when you want to go through the T.V and help them because they are in so much trouble.

This is one of the coolest, most suspenseful, most awesome films I've ever seen! It's about a cop named Jack(Keanu Reeves)who is facing a former cop, now a villain wanting his pay for his duty as a cop named Howard Payne(Dennis Hooper)He's going through a lot of games, traps and explosives, and of course shootings to try and save the innocent, stop Payne from terrorizing and/or killing people. Along the way, he meets up with a pretty cute little lady and they soon fall in love, or at least start to. In the end, Jack fights with Howard Payne atop a train(what a copy of SpiderMan and Doctor Octopus!)Payne is kicking his ass all over the place until Jack sees a red stoplight. Payne is capped after his head hits the light and snap goes his neck. Jack and his lady then survive the train crashing and their love life begins at the movie's end. It is an intense, cool and funny film that anyone over the age of 15 would adore. I love it and would suggest anyone who likes fighting movies to buy or rent it.

Keanu Reeves has emerged as a major presence here. Of course, "My Private Idaho" showed us how good an actor he really is, but too few people saw that strange, excellent film. Here he's great; sexy, competant, and with that edginess necessary to all action heroes. And this movie delivers. Action all the way, with Dennis Hopper, the perfect villain, and a strong female lead, a hero in her own right, who doesn't fall apart when everything else does. It is violent, with a couple of gory scenes and extremely fast- paced. I noticed in the beginning, when Reeves and the always excellent Jeff Daniels first arrive at the bomb site, as they prepare to go in, the camera moves around them in such a way, as to aid the impression of urgency and speed. It was very good. The bus leaping the 50-foot gap was the only scene that didn't work, as you could clearly see it sinking before they cut to the next shot where it hits the other side, tail end miraculously up instead of down. And it sure looked like they blew up a real plane. Hopper was truly creepy, playing his role with such understatement, as if this was all so ordinary. But Reeves is the star here.