Speed

Speed makes you eat your popcorn with a quickness. The story line is a simple, but not too simple to be all together boring. After his first extortion attempt is thwarted by two LAPD cops (Keanu Reeves and Jeff Daniels), a crazy bomber (Dennis Hopper) slaps a bomb under a city bus in order to demand a very specific amount of money from the city. The trick is that the bus can't go under 50 miles an hour or it will explode. Oh my! The movie doesn't have much character development but you don't need that to appreciate the characters. It is certainly not hard to appreciate Sandra Bullock in this movie. She plays the character that has to drive the speeding death tube. She's adorable and quite possibly the most believable character in the film. In fact, other than Bullock there is not much about this movie that is believable; that's what is great about it though. It's the perfect movie to watch when you want to tune out the real world and give your mind a break. It's thrilling, intense, exciting and extremely hard to believe. Speed is worth watching.