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  1. Jun 10, 2024 · Directed by Jan de Bont and starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, Speed marks a perfect marriage of concept, cast and execution. The proof of its success is that even though it may feel like...

  2. Jun 10, 2024 · Directed by Jan de Bont and starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, Speed marks a perfect marriage of concept, cast and execution. The proof of its success is that even though...

  3. Jun 16, 2024 · Director Jan de Bont came up with the audacious idea one day while he was driving around LA and noticed a section of the freeway missing.

  4. Jun 9, 2024 · Jan de Bont's action classic Speed turns 30 this summer, and these are 10 reasons it holds up as an action movie masterpiece.

    • Jan de Bont
    • Editor
    • Dennis Hopper
  5. Jun 14, 2024 · Bordwell’s analysis of Jan de Bont’s action classic Speed (1994) emerges in the context of a broader look at modern action cinema in his 2006 book, The Way Hollywood Tells It. Rejecting a cynical reading of action films in which “spectacle overrides narrative,” Bordwell instead sketches a vision of the genre contingent on “all the ...

  6. Jun 10, 2024 · The enduring allure of the VFX of ‘Speed’. 30 years of this masterpiece. Something I wrote for the special Speed issue of befores & afters magazine. I saw Jan de Bonts Speed in cinemas when I was 15 years old. It’s just a movie, and sometimes a very silly movie, but it changed my life.

  7. Jun 11, 2024 · This is the basic plot of Jan de Bont’s 1994 Speed, an action thriller that’s almost caveman-esque in its primal simplicity: go fast or go boom. Reeves stars as Jack Traven, a member of the LAPD bomb squad who’s having a very bad day, though it’s not all terrible.