Realizing that he has been fooled, no one died in the explosion, and the LAPD are waiting for him, a furious Payne poses as a police officer to kidnap Annie and recover the ransom. Jack and Mac head to Pershing Square to drop the ransom. Jack and Annie escape through a floor access panel before the empty bus collides with a Boeing 707 cargo plane and explodes. Mac has a local news crew record the transmission and rebroadcasts it on a loop to fool Payne while the passengers are offloaded onto an airport bus. When the sled breaks from its tow line, he accidentally punctures the fuel tank.Īfter the passengers bring him back aboard, Jack learns that Payne has been watching the passengers on a hidden surveillance camera, allowing him to be one step ahead at every moment. In a last-ditch attempt to defuse the bomb, Jack goes under the bus on a towed sled. He leads a SWAT team to Payne's home, but the property explodes, killing him and most of his team. Meanwhile, Harry finds out Payne was an Atlanta PD bomb squad officer. After narrowly succeeding, he directs her to Los Angeles International Airport, which has unobstructed runways. When Jack learns part of the freeway is incomplete, he persuades Annie to accelerate so they can jump the gap. While being convinced to allow Sam to be offloaded for medical attention, Payne detonates a smaller bomb after witnessing a passenger attempt to get off, killing her. Mac demands that they offload the passengers onto a flatbed trailer, but Jack warns him about Payne's plot. The bus is cleared to drive on an unopened freeway section. Jack examines the bomb underneath the bus and calls Harry. When she tries to slow down so he can get help, Jack is forced to reveal the bomb to the passengers. Another passenger, Annie Porter, takes over for Sam. A felon on board, fearing Jack is about to arrest him, wildly discharges his gun, accidentally wounding Sam Silver, the bus driver. Jack races through freeway traffic and boards the bus, but the bomb is already armed. Payne also demands a ransom of $3.7 million and threatens to detonate the bus if the passengers are offloaded. Contacting Jack, he explains that a similar bomb is rigged on another bus, which will activate once it reaches 50 miles per hour (80 km/h) and detonate if it drops below 50. The next morning, a mass transit bus explodes from a bomb planted by Payne. Having survived the incident, however, Payne watches from afar. Jack and Harry are praised by Lieutenant "Mac" McMahon, and Harry is promoted. Payne flees and detonates the bomb, seemingly dying. Jack shoots Harry in the leg, forcing the bomber to release him. As they corner Payne, he takes Harry hostage. LAPD SWAT bomb disposal officers Jack Traven and Harry Temple thwart an attempt to hold an elevator filled with people for a $3 million ransom by Howard Payne, an extortionist bomber. David Edelstein considered it to be the worst sequel of all time. A sequel, Speed 2: Cruise Control, was released three years later on June 13, 1997, without Reeves' involvement. The film premiered in Hollywood on June 7, 1994, and was released in the rest of the United States on June 10, 1994, it became critically and commercially successful, grossing $350.4 million on a $30–37 million budget, becoming the fifth-highest-grossing film of 1994 and winning two Academy Awards for Best Sound Effects Editing and Best Sound. Its story revolves around a bus that is rigged by a terrorist to explode if its speed falls below 50 miles per hour. The film stars Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Joe Morton, and Jeff Daniels. Speed is a 1994 American action film directed by Jan de Bont in his feature film directorial debut.
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