Barely lets its foot off the gas for a second.

Rating: 8/10 (1 April 2018)

'Speed (1994)' gets straight into the action and barely lets its foot off the gas for a second, barrelling straight ahead with full force and gusto without stopping for a moment to let you catch your breath. It's an extremely fun, exciting and thrilling adventure that's wonderfully tangible and is sure to keep you on the edge-of-your-seat throughout. Sure, the third act seems out of place and like an unnecessary repeat of what came before, the flick is occasionally a little too cheesy for its own good, Dennis Hopper sometimes gets a bit too hammy and Keanu Reaves, ever so often, shows just how far his acting talent has come since 1994, but this is an incredibly entertaining, wholly engaging and breathlessly exciting action-triller that takes its relatively simple, slightly 'Die Hard (1988)' like premise and does wonders with it. It really is a fantastic, frenetic blast throughout; certainly one of the best pictures of its kind. 8/10