Yea Yea Alright...Oh!

Rating: 6/10 (30 April 2008)

One of the more original efforts to the 90's action canon, Speed is mindless adrenaline fuelled entertainment but one which would have benefited from being shorter. The primary centre of the narrative is the bus, so when you have most of the film dedicated to this tense scenario the characters are enveloped in, it feels like a bit of a cope-out when they rush the belated rescue from this situation by focusing instead on a pretty ridiculous ending on a subway train. Concentrate on the bus for crying out loud! Anyway, the action is great, if unfathomable and Hopper makes a great villain again. But although, in this case, the premise was good on paper, as usual with the 90's action flick the script in worn, cliché (apart from some occasional good one-liners), contains your stereotypical characters and has big enough plot holes to drive a 50mph bus through.
6/10