Speed 1994 (with Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, & Sandra Bullock) was a fantastic action movie

Right off the bat let me tell you I'm no Keanu fan so this is not somebody who will gush over anything he's made. But I think this was one of his best acting performances.

I went to see the movie at the time (when the movie came out) knowing little about the actors or the director. This was in fact the director Jan de Bont's first film. He later directed the much inferior Speed 2, but before that he did another good movie (Twister).

Anyhow, he did hell of a job of directing the movie, really giving you the sense that this was really happening, as if you're watching a police chase on TV. He put the camera in really interesting places, from aerial shots to parked cars, it felt real immersive.

And the bad guy, well, Dennis Hopper is phenomenal. Coldhearted, precise, vengeful.

Yeah, I get that the plot is over the top and there are holes bigger than the bus jumped over, but one thing the movie isn't, is boring. It's nonstop action and thrill for the whole two hours duration of the movie. And it feels natural and not forced, as if this sequence of events could not be avoided. By the end you just breathe that sigh of relief and think what a movie.