Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, a runaway bus, and a killer high concept combined to create one of the best action movies of the ‘90s. (30th anniversary)

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 21, 2024

A perfect marriage of concept, cast and execution. The proof of its success is that even though it may feel like it's been left behind by time, action flicks today owe an undisputed debt to what the movie achieved.

Full Review | Jun 12, 2024

A well-paced thrill ride of a Die Hard-type action genre.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 8, 2024

...a landmark action picture that remains, all these years later, one of the best entries within a notoriously uneven genre.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 19, 2023

Speed picks up the year's wildest and silliest suspense premise and runs with it. Runs? This hyperkinetic thriller puts pedal to the metal and blows the competition off the road.

Full Review | Aug 24, 2023

Delivers on everything a slick summer popcorn blockbuster should. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 10, 2023

[Speed sets] the standard, at least this summer, for what a fast-paced, don't-think-too-much-about-plot actioner ought to be.

Full Review | May 8, 2023

A technical exercise so relentless, yet also so light of foot and heart, that it comes close to the summer-movie version of art.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Aug 31, 2022

Speed is both a reminder of the pleasures of well-done mindlessness and graceful evidence that Hollywood's newest generation of talent can play the box office game if and when it wants to.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Dec 22, 2021

The action in Speed is unrelenting for the most part, moving from one explosion to another and keeping the viewers entertained throughout the almost two-hour running time.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 4, 2021

Even with the few things that don't make sense or don't age well, the whole of the film remains as enthralling as ever.

Full Review | May 4, 2021

Speed offers the simple pleasures of a great action film...

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 21, 2021

One of those rare, seemingly mindless actioners that manages to mix enjoyable performances, a slick story, and white-knuckle thrills into a highly influential feature.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 24, 2020

Speed still remains a taut, thrilling action masterpiece, one that is expertly edited, fantastically written, and exhilarating from start to finish.

Full Review | Original Score: 9.5/10 | May 11, 2020

The chemistry between Bullock and Reeves is great ... More importantly, however, Speed knows and embraces its own silliness - without sacrificing the stakes.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 10, 2020

While Speed might be a great teaching aid for high school physics, it can also be used to illustrate concepts of 20th-century Western philosophy.

Full Review | Jul 23, 2019

There should be traffic jams at the box office as Fox picks up many busloads of riders for its fast and furiously entertaining thriller Speed.

Full Review | Jun 10, 2019

You wonder how it can maintain its tension for nearly two hours. But as if as if some demonic force is manipulating the action from afar, the movie runs through so many false endings that you may need a defibrillator to make it to the end.

Full Review | Aug 28, 2018

De Bont has assembled it with masterly precision. And Speed looks terrific. There are breathtaking aerial shots, mind-boggling stunts, and camera positioning that you just don't expect. It's a rocketing eyeful.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 11, 2014

Speed kills -- it kills wit, character, charm and empathy. But it does go fast. Since that is its sole reason for existence, one must say it achieves its narrow goal brilliantly.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 11, 2014