“Pop quiz, hotshot. There’s a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour, the bomb is armed. If it drops below 50, it blows up. What do you do? What do you do?”
The hotshot referred to is Jack. He’s a cop with the LAPD. Some idiot (the originator of the above quote) is looking for a large payoff. He gets a large payoff, just not the one he was looking for. The movie is Speed.
Keanu Reeves plays Jack, the cop. The premise of the movie is this: an ex-Atlanta bomb squad cop gets screwed over by the force, and he wants payback. So he plants bombs on an elevator, and tries to hold the people inside ransom.
Enter Jack, exit people, foil bad guy. Happy ending except that the psycho ex-cop blows up a city bus, and then threatens to do it again. Thus our movie and the above riddle.
I was pleasantly surprised with tight action, funny lines, good writing, and drama. Keanu Reeves actually acted very well, though I was haunted by images of the Neo he was to be.
The only thing that bothered me was the fact that they decided to do something really dumb. I am supposed to believe that a city bus going 70mph can jump a fifty foot gap of highway? No. No. NO. Not possible. A sports car on a steep incline and 180mph maybe, but a bus? No way.
But that is really my only complaint, unless my dad should see it and find something wrong with the elevator scenes.
So go rent it, its a good flick.
Speed, ladies and gentlemen.
You always knew it was a bad idea to take the bus….
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