The Speed film series is a series of action films. The series is composed of Speed and Speed 2: Cruise Control. which all follow a hero cop to stop a vengeful, intelligent criminal who have taken control of occupied, moving vehicles as the different hero scrambles to stop a different villain and try to prevent a commandeered transportation vehicle. Combined, all 2 films had grossed over $514 million worldwide from the first one to the second one.
Films[]
Speed (1994)[]
- Main article: Speed
In the first film, SWAT officer Jack Traven tries to defuse a bomb on a bus planted by vengeful ex-bomb squad sergeant Howard Payne and has to keep it above 50 mph to prevent detonation with Annie Porter drive the bus.
Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)[]
- Main article: Speed 2: Cruise Control
In the second film, off-duty SWAT officer Alex Shaw tries to stop disgruntled computer hacker John Geiger, who commandeered the cruise ship's computer systems and sets it into a oil tanker with Annie Porter in the middle of the chaos.