Speed (1994)

I spent a night having a modern American pop-culture revival, watching 1984’s Footloose and 1994’s Speed. While I’d characterize neither as a good film, they each delivered what they promised: a pleasant-enough way to pass a hundred or so minutes, with dancing to ’80s pop music on the one hand and exploding trains, planes, and buses on the other. Not good, no, but not that bad either.

**½ (out of *****)

©2018 David R. George III

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1994 • 1 HOUR, 56 MINUTES
TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX • THE MARK GORDON COMPANY

STARRING
• KEANU REEVES, DENNIS HOPPER, SANDRA BULLOCK

ALSO STARRING
• JOE MORTON, JEFF DANIELS, ALAN RUCK

WRITTEN BY
• GRAHAM YOST

DIRECTED BY
• JAN DE BONT

1994 ACADEMY AWARDS (2)
• BEST SOUND
• BEST SOUND EFFECTS EDITING

ADDITIONAL 1994 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS (1)
• BEST FILM EDITING (LOST TO FORREST GUMP)