“Films like Speed belong to the genre I call Bruised Forearm Movies, because you're always grabbing the arm of the person sitting next to you. Done wrong, they seem like tired replays of old chase cliches. Done well, they're fun. Done as well as Speed, they generate a kind of manic exhilaration.”

— Roger Ebert

Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/speed-1994 of Speed (10 June 1994)
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