Aptly named

Rating: 7/10 (18 July 2015)

'Speed' has got an incredible hook, but you just know that at some point credibility will be stretched to the snapping point and logic abandoned. And it is. No matter, because the aptly named Speed zips along at a breakneck pace, never allowing you to dwell on any of that. Reeves and Bullock have great chemistry, and it's easy to see why the former remains a star and the latter became (and remains) one. But the real star here may be Dennis Hopper (R.I.P.), who steals the show as the scene munching villain.
I was really taken with how skillfully made this movie is. Like John McTiernan ('Predator', 'Die Hard'), Jan de Bont came out of the gate poised to be the next big thing, but after his next film, 'Twister', it was a swift fall from grace and a "Whatever happened to...". Still, not many directors with resumes twice the size of de Bont's can claim to have made a film this entertaining and enduring.