Theres a bomb on a bus: Speed turns 30
Why is Speed, which arrived 30 years ago this week, one of the more exciting and enduring action movies of the 1990s?
It featured Keanu Reeves — an actor on whom the jury was still out at the time — in the sort of authoritative action performance that he’s still regularly delivering three decades later. It found a theretofore underappreciated performer, Sandra Bullock, and gave her a star-making role; both Reeves and Bullock were launched into A-list careers that have continued all these years later. It had Dennis Hopper, a man Hollywood had discarded multiple times, in one of his best turns as a psycho villain.
But beyond all that, Speed had a killer high concept that it sold the hell out of for two straight hours.
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