Cans!!! It's just cans.......

Rating: 9/10 (14 June 2014)

A man tries to extort money by threatening to kill a lift full of people with explosives. The city is about to give in when rookie cop, Jack Traven stops him.
Jack and his partner, Harry find him and corner him but instead of giving up he detonates an explosive vest.
He is believed to be dead but he tries again, and this time he has placed bomb on a bus that will exploded if the bus goes below 50 mph.
Jack tries to stop the bus before the bomb is armed but he's too late, all he can do now is to keep it going......
It's one of the most high concept films ever made, and to be fair, it's three Die Hard movies in one; Die Hard in a lift, on a bus, and on a train, and it's as brilliant as it sounds.
Hopper makes the film, and although this shot Reeves' star right into the stratosphere, he still clearly is just a pretty face, as he cannot act for toffee.
The second act is the defining element of the film, as soon as Jack boards the bus, the tension is racked all the way up, and it doesn't let up until one of the most wonderful explosions ever committed to screen.
Ignore the flaws, there are plenty, and De Bont never helmed a film as good as this again.
One of the highlights of 1994.