What makes Speed such a great movie?

Question by Spike: What makes Speed such a great movie?
Speed, besides Die Hard of course, is one of my all time favourite action movies. It’s also very different from some of the other action movies I know. It’s very fast paced and lots of fast decisions have to made. But I was just wondering, why was this movie such a success? Also, everyone has been commenting on the horrible acting Keeanu Reeves performs in every movie, with his non emotional mono tone voice, they say. But I quite like him, at least in this movie, so what’s the deal here? Maybe Dennis Hopper made the movie great.

Best answer:

Answer by B.Baldwin
Humour+action+ a good looking nice hero+ a very bad villain = answer to your question.

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