Speed-Wonderful Bumpy Ride ****

Rating: 10/10 (8 March 2008)

If Bette Davis were alive when this marvelous action film was made, she would have certainly said to fasten your seat belts as we're in for a bumpy ride.
What a wonderful bumpy ride it is. This is a fast paced, high action thriller.
We have the usual lunatic mad bomber, this time played marvelously by Dennis Hopper, disgruntled and off his rocker, who plants bombs in elevators, buses and finally creates havoc on a train.
Keanu Reeves is terrific as the cop who foils his plans at every turn along with Jeff Daniels. This is the latter's best film since he played the ill-fated son-in-law of Shirley MacLaine in the 1983 Oscar winner "Terms of Endearment."
Sandra Bullock turned in a fantastic performance as the woman on the bus who winds up having to drive it under such tense circumstances.
If all action films were like this. Intelligently written, well acted, and a great story line to boot!