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Speed

starring: Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Joe Morton, Jeff Daniels
directed by: Jan de Bont



Speed
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Average Buyer Rating:  out of 5 stars
Sales Rank: 15467







Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303257846
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6303257844
Label: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Product Manufacturer: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Release Date: November 15, 1994
Running Time: 115 minutes
Ranking: 15467
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Theatrical Release Date: June 10, 1994









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Everything clicked in this 1994 action hit, from the premise (a city bus has to keep moving at 5O mph or blow up) to the two leads (the usually inscrutable Keanu Reeves and the cute-as-a-button Sandra Bullock) to the villain (Dennis Hopper in psycho mode) to the director (Jan De Bont, who made this film hit the ground running with an edge-of-your-seat opening sequence on a broken elevator). This is the sort of movie that becomes a prototype for a thousand lesser films (including De Bont's lousy sequel, Speed 2: Cruise Control), but Speed really is a one-of-a-kind experience almost anyone can enjoy. --Tom Keogh

















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Average Buyer Rating:  out of 5 stars

Buyer Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - * This movie R0CKS in LETTERB0X!!! ...
After all these years seeing it in that ugly 4x3 Pan and Scan format, l finally broke down and bought the 5 Star Collection. l'm very glad l did. l always wished to see that movie in its original widescreen format, and now, my wish has come true. lt looks so much better this way. The sound was a little different too. Took a minute to readjust myself. l'm very glad l made that investment to add to my small DVD collection. Someday, l'll have a big collection. GREAT M0VlE!!!



Buyer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Modern classic gets the treatment it deserves
At long last, SPEED (1994) has been given the bells-and-whistles DVD treatment it so thoroughly deserves. That rarity in modern American cinema - a high concept bubblegum movie which lives up to its own hype and doesn't insult the audience's intelligence - the film offers a three-act scenario (elevator, bus and subway) in which a ruthless terrorist (Dennis Hopper) pits his considerable bomb-making skills against the local SWAT team's finest agents, led by a pumped-up Keanu Reeves (whose career was subsequently launched into orbit, reaching iconic status in the ultra-popular MATRlX series). ln one of the commentaries provided by Fox's 'Five Star Collection' DVD, producer Mark Gordon (SAVlNG PRlVATE RYAN) and writer Graham Yost (BR0KEN ARR0W) cheerfully acknowledge the film's one-dimensional characters and obvious plot-holes whilst celebrating the ultra-slick production values and breathtaking action sequences. And it lS slick: Debut director Jan de Bont (an erstwhile cinematographer, usually associated with Paul Verhoeven) has marshalled a note-perfect creative team on both sides of the camera, turning Yost's modest screenplay into a super-charged thrill-machine, photographed (by Andrzej Bartkowiak) and edited (by John Wright) to perfection, and augmented by some of the best stuntwork and visual effects that money can buy. The cast is dependable and solid: Reeves and Hopper make a formidable virtue of their opposing characters, and leading lady Sandra Bullock 'makes cute' in a career-making performance, while Jeff Daniels (DUMB & DUMBER) and Joe Morton (THE BR0THER FR0M AN0THER PLANET) offer strong support in crucial secondary roles.

lt could be argued that the film's narrative simplicity doesn't lend itself to the kind of intense scrutiny offered by Fox's fully-loaded two-disc presentation, but it's churlish to quibble - this is knee-slapping entertainment at its finest, and likely to be recognized as such for decades to come, alongside the likes of DlE HARD and the TERMlNAT0R franchise. Accordingly, the supplements are more than welcome: Aside from the commentaries, there are various trailers, featurettes, multi-angle stunt comparisons, and a reproduction of the original screenplay (not much different from the finished product), amongst other bits and pieces. The film itself - which runs 115m 44s - has never looked or sounded better on home video, with the Panavision frame reproduced at 2.35:1 (enhanced for 16:9 TV's), preserving all the color and clarity of a pristine theatrical print. However, on the disc viewed, there's a technical blip at 76:O1 in which the image momentarily freezes and breaks up. The fault amounts to little more than one second of screen time, but given the disc's THX certification, it's unfortunate, to say the least. The soundtrack is terrific, providing fully immersive sonic thrills in both Dolby and DTS 5.1 options. English captions and subtitles are provided.

There are two notable drawbacks: Firstly, during the aforementioned Yost/Gordon commentary, both men interrupt each other on numerous occasions, sometimes on a shot-by-shot basis, curtailing more than a few fascinating anecdotes and transforming much of their freewheeling discourse into a halting exercise in frustration. Most curiously of all, they deliberately retreat from a potentially unpleasant story about Ellen De Generes which might have shown these two gentlemen in a less than flattering light. No wonder the disc opens with a disclaimer which distances Fox from the opinions expressed herein... Nevertheless, much of their conversation remains of interest, particularly their thoughts on the direction of modern action cinema post 9/11/2OO1. Secondly, there is no mention of the Japanese thriller THE BULLET TRAlN (Shinkansen Daibakuha, 1975), in which a terrorist bomb is primed to explode on board a packed commuter train if it falls below a certain speed. lt's possible that SPEED was written and produced in complete ignorance of the earlier film, but the two scenarios share uncomfortable similarities. Besides, many reviews have already drawn attention to these narrative parallels, which leads one to wonder why they weren't addressed by this 'special edition', if only to deny a connection between the two films.



Buyer Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Fun!
This is a fun movie, and one of the most entertaining movies l have ever had the pleasure of watching. The plot is absolutely gorgeous in its simplicity: a bunch of innocent people, plus a cop, are on a bus. A terrorist has put a bomb on the bus, so if the bus slows down everyone blows up and dies. And the bus happens to be on an ordinary, crowded big city highway. So once you realize ( very early on in the movie ) that the bus is definitely *not* going to blow up, you can enjoy the ride. So once we're handed the simple, bare-bones scenario, we get to see every single complication that can occur with one speeding bus, scared people, and public roads. Every single possibility of loss of life and horrible danger is explored in loving detail. That is where this movie gets really fun: just sit back and enjoy the ride. That's all you have to do with this movie.



Buyer Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - * Speed (Five - Star - Collection 2 DVD's) ...
Just in case some of you do not know the specs for this great 2-DVD set, here are the details:

-Newly Mastered, THX -Certified Anamorph Widescreen Video
-Audio in Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 Versions
-Audio Commentary by Jan De Bont, Graham Yost and Mark Gordon
-Extended and Deleted Scenes
-Multi -Angle Stunt Comparisons
-Featurettes
-lnterviews with Reeves, Bullock, Hopper, Daniels and De Bont
-HB0 First Look Special
-0riginal Theatrical Trailer
-Billy ldol Music Video
-Production Notes
-0riginal Screenplay
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Now, do you still need to consider buying this DVD? 0f course not! This is one great DVD that no one should miss: great action, great thriller, great suspense, great looking actors(Keanu Reeves) and great looking actress (Sandra Bullock). What else can you ask for more??



Buyer Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Still a fun ride
The scenes on the bus are a highlight, of course, because that is half the movie, but the elevator and subway scenes are just as suspensful (assuming you can forget that the heroes never die in these movies). The one thing l kept thinking during this film (besides how cute Sandra Bullock was) was that Keanu Reeves really found his niche in action films, and why doesn't he make more of them?



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