Thursday, March 27, 2008

Speed

Going along with the continuing saga of terrible action movies, I present one of the best. Just reading the plot synopsis should give a pretty good idea of what I'm talking about. A lone terrorist wires a bomb on a bus so that, if its speed falls below 50 mils per hour, it explodes. Throw Keanu Reeves' terrible acting into the mix, and you've got a stupid, but potentially badass action movie on your hands. Choice quotes: "There's enough C4 on this bus to make a hole in the world!"
"Don't even think about growing a brain!"
Here's a riveting scene where the bus does a crazy-ass jump that is totally sweet, dude.Apparently, Keanu Reeves called upon the eagle totem spirit to lift his bus over the jump. This is just one example of the many ridiculously stupid, but badass scenes that defined this movie. Other samplings of badassery include: a fight on top of a train where one of the combatants is holding a detonator; a scene where Reeves tries to disarm a bomb under the bus; and of course, many big fancy explosions.
Overall, I would give this movie 1.5 out of 4 stars for some cool fight scenes and big explosions, but a swiss-cheese plot and some terrible acting made it cringeworthily enjoyable. This seems to be true for all my recent views, hasn't it?
This is Jimbo, signing off/out.

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