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'''Speed''' is a 1994 movie starring [[Keanu Reeves ]] as Jack, an anti-terrorist cop in [[Los Angeles]]. He matches wits with [[Dennis Hopper ]] who wants 3.7 million dollars or he'll blow up an elevator full of hostages [[hostage]]s in a high rise building. Jack uses a crane cable he found handy to keep the elevator from slipping and rescues the hostages, and when his attempt to arrest the bad guy goes sour, shoots his partner ([[Jeff Daniels]]) in the crotch to get him clear just before the bomber laden with an [[explosive vest ]] passes through a door and detonates a huge explosion.
The cops think it's over, but the bomber blows up a bus with just the driver on it the next day and reaches Jack by phone. Bus #2525 carries a bomb that will arm itself when it exceeds 50 MPH and then blow up if it goes below that speed.
The movie is a mild action [[thriller ]] with plenty of macho but wooden acting from Reeves and perky cheeriness from [[Sandra Bullock]], a passenger who must take the wheel when a frantic passenger accidentally shoots the bus driver. "No problem," she says, "It's just like driving a big [[Pinto]]." Unrealistic scenes abound, such as driving through city traffic at speeds apparently much slower than 50 MPH, and a thrilling jump across a 50-foot gap in an incomplete highway. With nothing to make the bus go up, it should crash into the next section of highway,<ref>Assuming the bus can speed up to 100 feet/second, it would be in the air for 0.5 seconds. During this time it would fall according to d = 0.5 a t^2 or around 4 feet. </ref> but for dramatic purposes it makes a perfect landing on the other side. ==Notes== {{reflist}}
