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Speed
(Five Star
Collection)
(Fox Home Entertainment)
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| DVD
Release Date:
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July
30, 2002
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Length:
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115 mins.
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| Rated:
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R
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Widescreen (2.35:1)
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Languages:
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English, French
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English, French
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2 Screen-Specific Audio Commentaries, HBO First Look Special, 5
Making-Of Featurettes, Filmmaker Interviews, Deleted Scenes,
Still Galleries, Music Video, Theatrical Trailers, TV Spots
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This hit film from 1994 didn't show any
of it's age and can still measure up to anything put out today. In
fact, I found it far more exciting than almost anything I could think
of from the last few years. Sure, the plot was a little suspect, but
the perfectly paced action was truly the star. Tremendous tension was
present from the get-go, and a few moments of nervous levity were
smartly placed to compliment all the excitement. To that, they just
added staples of the genre, some gunplay, several stunts and big
explosions - your usual fun destruction. Seems formulaic, I know, but
it works. Wonderfully in this case.
This set consisted of two discs with an incredible amount of extras
found on the second one. These included a great HBO making-of
featurette, two terrific stunt specific featurettes, four interesting
multi-angled stunts sequences, three multi-angled storyboard
comparisons, a look at an unfilmed storyboard with optional commentary
from director Jan De Bont, the full Graham Yost script, five ordinary
extended scenes without commentary, production design notes with
optional concept art/photos, an interesting collection of five
semi-polished interviews with the leads and the director, three decent
short featurettes (each focused on overall stunts, visual effects and
the general making-of the film), numerous production photos, the
theatrical trailer, eleven TV spots, press kit notes and finally, a
Billy Idol music video. The first disc had the movie as well as two
informative commentary tracks. The first, from De Bont, was a little
difficult to understand due to his accent, and another from Yost and
producer Mark Gordon was fun, as those two were quite entertaining
together.
Genuine fervor from beginning to end with no boring parts. They just
don't make 'em like this anymore.
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10/10 |
| The Extras: |
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9/10 |
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| Recommendation: |
One
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