Speed (DVD)

Speed (1994) starring Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Dennis Hopper. Psycho villain (Hopper) likes to blow things up -- and he doesn't mind if people die. So he places a bomb on a bus, rigged to explode if the bus slows to below 50 miles per hour. Reeves plays Jack Traven, a Los Angeles policeman to whom it falls to save the bus and the people on it. Bullock, in her breakthrough role, plays Annie, a woman who is called into service as the bus driver when the regular driver is injured. One exciting scene follows another as the action, though mostly confined to a bus, keeps us riveted. Grade: A-