Speed (Five Star Collection)
by Jan de Bont
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Actor: Dennis Hopper, Jeff Daniels, Joe Morton, Keanu Reeves, Sandra BullockDirector: Jan de Bont
Cinematographer: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Editor: John Wright
Producer: Allison Lyon Segan
Producer: Ian Bryce
Producer: Mark Gordon
Writer: Graham Yost
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 116 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-07-30
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
DVD Reviews of Speed (Five Star Collection)
DVD Review: Speed
Summary: 5 Stars
A morally ambivalent cop must remove a bomb planted under a bus that's triggered to explode when its speed drops below 50 mph. This movie it combines action and adventure.Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock worked memorable together to produce a succesfull movie. This is a great action movie. With a great plot. Once the action starts it doesn't stop until the movie is over.
DVD Review: blu-ray title
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a excellent blu-ray title. The video and audio is very good.
Recommend to buy.
DVD Review: Blu-ray edition is superb value
Summary: 5 Stars
Blu-rays are about picture and sound quality. A review of Blu-ray edition of an old 1994 movie should be addressing the issue of added entertainment value when upgrading to the Blu-ray edition, not the story itself, which we are all familiar with.
A dvd of this movie cost a bomb back in the day. It has been shown countless times on free to air TV. I saw this movie in a theatre way back in 1994. Nostalgia made me buy Blu-rays of this movie along with Blu-ray Black Hawk Down, both at the same price. Naturally, I saw Black Hawk Down first, reserving Speed for later.
I totally underestimated SPEED. With the Blu-ray, (I hook up my TV to Bose 901 speakers) I was transported back to the cinema hall. The sound from the Blu-ray was awesome. Every explosion, collision, aeroplane, helicopter had a deep and tight bass sensurround sound. The bass on my speakers were truly put to the test. The deep rumblings of the bus and the sound of the crashing of the bus were true to life. Sounds were moving to and fro Left and Right speakers positioning the bus, helicopters and gunshots correctly. This made the Blu-ray worth every cent. The dialogue was crisp. I switched off the sub-titles and just enjoyed the whole Blu-ray performance, even though I had seen this movie on Full Screen TV free so many times before. With Blu-ray, this appeared to be a different movie altogether.
I cannot complain about the picture quality, although others might expect a better transfer. I can see every wrinkle on Dennis Hopper's face and the individual hairs on every actor's head in close-ups. For a 1994 movie, that is good enough for me. Colour saturation was good. The picture quality surpasses that of many Blu-rays which cost a lot more, and which are of more recent vintage.
Probably one of the most well spent $12.99 (price at the time of this review). The Blu-ray release surpasses expectations. Black Hawk Down has a more sombre theme, but somehow, the gunfire and helicopter crashes sounded a little disappointing. I expected better from Blu-ray Black Hawk Down and for value added by the Blu-ray edition. Blu-ray Black Hawk Down was better than the dvd, but it did not have the massive improvement Blu-ray brought to SPEED. The acoustics in SPEED sounded better than the recent Fast and Furious series of Blu-rays, to me anyway.
I am not in the position to comment about technical specifications, but for a person who has been disappointed by a lot of Blu-ray upgrades, SPEED added so much more enjoyment for such a small investment.
If Blu-rays reviews ignored the content and were rated according to "How much more did the Blu-ray edition add to your enjoyment of the movie compared to the dvd version", I would say SPEED BD would rank in the top few. Gladiator Blu-ray, on the other hand, would rank in the bottom few (if you ignored the 5 star contents).
And if you do not have a copy of SPEED, go straight for the affordable Blu-ray version of SPEED. I experienced a ressurection of a movie I once wrote off as "old". Excellent value for money.
DVD Review: An Awesome Action Film!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an awesome film with plenty of suspense and action! Everybody does an awesome job. A few days after stopping a mad bomber named Howard Payne, Jack Traven is about to have a very bad morning because he finds out that Payne has put a bomb on a city bus, and if the bus goes below 50 MPH, the bus will explode, so Jack jumps aboard the bus and tries to keep everyone calm and help a woman named Annie Porter drive the bus. They must drive through rush hour, and jump a huge gap in the road. Will Jack be able to save the passengers and stop the bad guy? I highly recommend SPEED!!!DVD Review: Dennis Hopper steals the show
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent concept here, virtually the entire film takes place at top speed, and afterwards you get the feeling you have been on the chase for 2 hours also. Reeves and Bullock are fine, but the sinister performance from Hopper is by far the most memorable. This was during the time he was filming those acid-trip NIKE commercials, and his character here fits that bill. He manages to shine despite being in relatively few of the scenes. Maybe it was those commercials or other films he made, but he was entirely believable and perfect in the part. It had excitement, had a solid plot, but most of all, had Dennis Hopper at his sinister best.
Description of Speed (Five Star Collection)
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 KeoghGeneral DVDs
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