A classic joke

Rating: 2/10 (9 March 2009)

I roll my eyes so many times watching this, I see more of the ceiling than the movie screen. There are so many flaws in this movie's story, I don't know where to begin...
First in someone's car he tries to tell the bus there is a bomb on board on the bus, right there, why couldn't the police have contacted the bus through the contact radio? So he has to do a chaotic scene to get onto the bus? That scene is laughable right there.
Then the most famous scene in Speed, is the biggest joke; when they jump the unfinished part in the road, wouldn't they just drop down through the hole? Or bang into the other side of the road? Also, why does the bus even have to jump the gap in the road when there were numerous exits before it? (like the exit the bomb squad took). And when the bus is circling the airport runway (with tires taken out by the entrance's spike strip), they can hardly keep the little cart Keanu Reeves is riding under the bus stable, yet, the bus turns round and round, with his cart following flawlessly, plus this somehow has to lead to him poking a hole in the bus gas tank.
I also love the last action scene in Speed. This movie was so over dramatized, that all the drama with the bus wasn't even enough, they had to put the characters together on a failed subway car as well. First of all, the subway car wouldn't be running on a track that is still under construction. The scene where they are just crawling on a fast subway car is just a joke, and second, with the failed brake, why couldn't they just shut the engine off and let the car roll to a stop? (instead of having to jump the track) They can speed it up, why can't they just slow it down?
Speed is all about ridiculous, over dramatized action, and definitely not logic. For crying out loud, Arnold Schwarzenegger movies are more believable than Speed!