Entertaining but too unbelievable even for an action film

Rating: Null/10 (2 October 2011)

The film is entertaining and the premise behind the film is great. But unfortunately there are just too many ridiculous aspects which spoil it, most of which other people have identified. The part I find especially ridiculous is when the bus gets off the first freeway. The bus hits all kinds of obstacles (cars etc) along the way, almost all of which would have slowed the bus down below 50mph. The jump across the 50 ft gap in the freeway would take little over 1 second for a bus doing 50mph. But the gap shown in the movie looks enormous and even more crazy is the bus taking off like it's a kangaroo! Then there's Reeves and Bullock sliding on a panel thing with wheels...they would have fallen off that easily. Another cliché is some poor soul who cannot escape from danger...the woman in the lift who won't move...she would be out like a shot! And the tourist guy taking ages to cross from one bus to the other...he'd be over like a shot! Human instinct is to survive. I've given it 4/10 as I think Hopper does a good job as the "madman" and there are some funny one-liners.