Okay, so perhaps you wouldnt place Speed in a list of all-time awesome films, but it was a lot of fun. It had all the hallmarks on a great action film a bus full of passengers that will explode if it drops below 50 miles per hour. Lives at stake. A bus running into rush hour traffic and over an unfinished bridge there were some brilliantly tense moments. There was a great sexy dynamic between Keanu Reeves Officer Jack Traven (his acting isnt so wooden here) and Sandra Bullocks Annie Porter (before she got boring). Theres some great dialogue and Dennis Hoppers terrorist Howard Payne makes n entertaining, diabolical villain. The trouble is anyone would tell you this is lightning in a bottle moment. You cant believable have the same characters in another situation where one of more of them is trapped in a vehicle out of control. Except thats just what they did. Keanu Reeves wisely decided not to return for the sequel, so all the chemistry his character had with Sandra Bullocks Annie was wasted. Instead we got Jason Patrics Officer Alex Shaw and it wasnt half as good. This time we had a cruise liner on a collision course with an oil tanker. Poor Annie must have wondered what she had done to find herself in this situation again. So did the audience. This sequel was a half arsed attempt at remaking the first film and it didnt work. Like Oceans 12, another case of bigger definitely not being better.