Word: hoppers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dennis Hopper: Bruce Smith's shoe, man, a new overcoat and a life-time supply of "Halitosis" breath freshener...
Speed. Another action movie, I know, but my expectations were so low, and it was so much fun. Dennis Hopper was much better in Red Rock West, a movie released earlier this year that deserved a better fate than it got, and Keanu Reeves was passable, though much better than when he played one of the world's most important religious figures in Little Buddha, Bernardo Bertolucci's failed attempt to recapture the pomp and pageantry that won him a Best Picture Oscar for The Last Emperor...
...plot is well-known by now. Staunch LAPD member Jack Travens (keanu Reeves) play a game of wits with crazy man Howard Payne (Dennis Hopper). Their showdown of sorts centers around a bus that Payne his wired with a bomb set to go off if the speed drops below...
...even hold his own with Dennis Hopper, his usual maniacally brilliant self. Hopper plays Howard Payne, an articulate, intelligent psychopath--such a big departure from all of his other roles. But Hopper is particularly unlikable and unsympathetic here...
Speed has terrified (and nicely particularized) passengers, a resourceful hero (Keanu Reeves), a gutsy heroine (the always appealing Sandra Bullock) and & a terrific villain (Dennis Hopper, doing what he does best -- rationalism gone gaga). The can't-slow-down bus ride is bookended with a pair of thrill sequences, either one of which would provide enough of a plot for most movies. Speed begins with a crowded elevator that is sometimes in free fall and is rigged to explode at a certain floor, and it ends with a driverless subway running out of control, the heroine helpless inside...