Speed – Five Star Collection

Cast View all

	Keanu Reeves	Jack Traven
	Dennis Hopper	Howard Payne
	Sandra Bullock	Annie
	Joe Morton	Capt. McMahon
	Jeff Daniels	Harry
	Alan Ruck	Stephens
	Glenn Plummer	Jaguar Owner
	Richard Lineback	Norwood
	Beth Grant	Helen
	Hawthorne James	Sam
	Carlos Carrasco	Ortiz
	David Kriegel	Terry
	Natsuko Ohama	Mrs. Kamino
	Daniel Villarreal	Ray
	Simone Gad	Bus Passenger #1
	Loretta Jean	Bus Passenger #2
	Sherri Villanueva	Bus Passenger #3
	Margaret Medina	Robin
	Jordan Lund	Bagwell
	Robert Mailhouse	Young Executive
	Patrick Fischler	Friend of Executive
	Patrick John Hurley	CEO
	Susan Barnes	Female Executive
	Rick Dano	S.W.A.T. Driver
	Michael Sottile	S.W.A.T. Cop

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Director	Jan de Bont
Writer	Graham Yost
Producer	Ian Bryce, Mark Gordon, Allison Lyon Segan
Musician	Mark Mancina
Photography	Andrzej Bartkowiak

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Story Synopsis:
Speed is the action suspense thriller about a crazed and vindictive extortionist (Dennis Hopper) who has rigged a city bus to blow if the bus slows to below 55 miles per hour. Keanu Reeves plays a fearless SWAT team specialist who, teaming up with a passenger (Sandra Bullock) who takes the wheel, risks all to get aboard the rigged vehicle to prevent a major catastrophe.


DVD Picture:
The non-anamorphic widescreen DVD has been sourced from a composite digital master and exhibits noticeable aliasing problems and moiré. These artifacts are more pronounced than those apparent the new DTS LaserDisc and on the previous composite LaserDiscs reviewed in Issues 12 and 24. Otherwise picture quality is about the same with slight improvement in color resolution and fidelity. There is slight chroma noise apparent but less than on the LaserDiscs and some artifacts, but otherwise the picture is sure to please. The DVD is framed at 2.30:1.


Soundtrack:
The Dolby® Digital credited 5.1 discrete soundtrack is actually the same 5.0 discrete Dolby Digital soundtrack as the previous Laser Disc. While low level ambient sounds are not audible on the Dolby Digital, though reproduced on the matrix PCM and DTS® Digital Surround version, the soundtrack is nicely produced with an aggressive split surround presence that effectively complements the stereo sound effects. The music score is dynamic and well recorded with deep bass response. The DTS Digital Surround version has superb clarity and dynamics as well. There are some really terrific sounding scenes throughout, though the .1 LFE channel is not used for added deep bass emphasis on either discrete version.

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This Disc Contains The Following WSR-Rated Superb Qualities:
Superb Sound Effects Recording Quality
Superb Music Score Recording Quality
Superb Special Visual Effects Quality

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