WHOA I’m moving at a really high rate of speed! Wait, that’s not even what I’m doing at all. I was mistaken. I believe this confusion is mostly a result of recently watching Speed, the movie from 1994. Perhaps movies can disorient us a bit and make us forget what is real! I actually thought I was moving at a high rate of speed with no justification whatsoever being that I’m sittin’ down doin’ nothin’. Well anyway, I finally watched Speed when it’s over 30 years old, and I’m extraordinarily late to seeing this movie. Though that does make me question – at what point is it mandatory that you’ve seen a movie? For example: it’s not like everybody has seen every movie from the ‘20s, right? So technically nobody can say “Hey you haven’t seen Ghostbusters? It’s been long enough! You gotta go see Ghostbusters!” And then the other person is like “Man, I just got no idea what that movie is about and have no idea what any of the characters look like. Is it about people or something?”
You know, in this movie there is more than just a fast bus. There is also a fast elevator action scene. How cool is that – more than one fast vehicle involved in this epic production! And at the very end, there is a fast subway! Yummmm, subway system… Maybe I’m accidentally confusing a thing or two or many many more. OK forget I said anything, and you might as well not read on. [Whistling] Oh wow, are you still here reading? I’d be surprised if anyone wanted to read any more words of mine after that earlier part. So what was I talking about again, oh yeah – a Hollywood movie with fast vehicles! Wait, I didn’t even mention the fact that it had intensely energetic title cards at the beginning of the film! Well now I did mention it.
Maybe this was just my incorrect interpretation of the movie, but the villain struck me as the kind of guy who had pretty much given up on things in life. The only issue was, he was watching football on television. Hope I got the name of that sport correct…anyway some kind of football play happened on the television, and he seemed to care about it! So the man did care about things after all! I mean maybe just football so maybe he just cared about one thing. I guess he also wanted some money, so there are at least two things this guy liked in life.
Is It Worth Watching?: Tough one to say for sure on this particular movie. I will say that I myself enjoyed the movie. Whether or not it is WORTH WATCHING for someone else…I would say if you like ‘90s action movies, Sandra Bullock, and/or Keanu Reeves – then yes, it is worth watching.
Final Thoughts: I just realized as I’m finishing this review that I didn’t even have a number in mind yet for my Crown Rating! Hmmmmmmmmmm I will give Speed (arguably a prequel to that one where Keanu Reeves fights crime as a superhero that calls himself “The Matrix”) a 6.5/10 Crowns. I don’t know if that number is quite right, yet that’s what pops into my head. Sometimes you just gotta go with the aether I guess. One highlight I wanted to mention about this film is that the two main characters fall in love by the end, so it’s really just a love story where a bus and a subway san—, I mean, tasty subway SYSTEM get in the way. Did I get it right that time?
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