The premise was going to work almost no matter what: Dennis Hopper’s mad bomber has rigged a city bus to blow if it drops below 50 mph as it careens through bottlenecked LA. But director Jan De Bont, editor Jon Wright, and athletic young star Keanu Reeves create kinetic cinema magic here. It doesn’t hurt that Reeves’s cop and Sandra Bullock’s plucky passenger spark cute. – Lee Gardner
1994 Jan De Bont 2.35:1 Color DCP 116 min.
