Feel the adrenaline rush to this exciting thriller

Rating: 10/10 (15 July 2010)

After watching the Die Hard trilogy, I decided to buy the action film "Speed", and I was very excited after I watched it the first time.
It stars Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, etc.
Jack Traven (Keanu Reeves) is a young S.W.A.T cop in the Los Angeles police department. One morning Jack witnesses a bus explode and Jack receives a phone call from Howard Payne (Dennis Hopper), a retired Atlanta bomb squad explosives expert gone bad, Payne has wired a passenger bus to explode, where if the bus speeds at 50 miles per hour the bomb is armed, if the bus slows down and drops below 50 miles per hour the bus will explode. Payne demands $3-million dollars and Jack or any of the passengers tries to get off the bus, he will detonate the bomb. Managing to get on the bus, Jack with help of one of the passengers, Annie (Sandra Bullock) who is driving the bus when the driver is injured, tries to keep the passengers alive and guide the bus through the traffic, and keep the bus speeding at 50 miles per hour, as the S.W.A.T team and Jack's partner, explosives expert Harry Temple set to discover Payne's location and find a way to disarm the bomb before the bomb explodes when the bus runs out of gas.
The actors in the film were played very well, especially Reeves and Hoppers roles.
There was a sequel to this called "Speed II: Cruise Control". I have not seen it, nor I will buy it, because, it got poor reviews, Reeves chose not to star in it, no resemblance to the first film.
Overall, a very well made film.
Speed gets 10 stars.