Product Description

Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock. A SWAT team cop goes head to head with a psycho who has rigged a commuter-filled LA city bus to explode. Includes extended scenes, featurettes and more! 2 Discs. 1994/color/115 min/R.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4303 in DVD
• Brand: REEVES,KEANU
• Released on: 2006-11-14
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 116 minutes

Amazon.com
Everything clicked in this 1994 action hit, from the premise (a city bus has to keep moving at 50 mph or blow up) to the two leads (the usually inscrutable Keanu Reeves and the cute-as-a-button Sandra Bullock) to the villain (Dennis Hopper in psycho mode) to the director (Jan De Bont, who made this film hit the ground running with an edge-of-your-seat opening sequence on a broken elevator). This is the sort of movie that becomes a prototype for a thousand lesser films (including De Bont's lousy sequel, Speed 2: Cruise Control), but Speed really is a one-of-a-kind experience almost anyone can enjoy. --Tom Keogh

From The New Yorker
Trouble on the Los Angeles freeway. Evil mastermind Dennis Hopper (who else?) is a disgruntled psycho who wires a bomb to the bottom of a city bus. If the speed drops below fifty, boom. Enter Keanu Reeves as a young cop who is one step behind Hopper, but catching up fast; we are way behind the movie, which outwits our expectations at every turn. The director is Jan De Bont, who used to be a cameraman; this is his first feature, and he sees the plot through in a surge of bright images. The result is clean, delirious, and, yes, speedy-the best big-vehicle-in-peril movie since Clouzot's "The Wages of Fear." But that film offered a vision of human duplicity pitted against a dour fate; De Bont's work is a mindlessly cheerful occasion for high humor, initiative, and good luck-and a great, gutsy turn from Sandra Bullock as a passenger who finds herself behind the wheel of the bus. You leave the theatre exhausted, and blissed out. -Anthony Lane
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker