Speed is a 1994 American action-thriller film directed by Jan de Bont. LAPD officer Jack Traven becomes the focus of a bomber and extortionist, retired Atlanta bomb squad sergeant Howard Payne.

The 1994 bus-bound thriller ... universal acclaim from critics. Speed stars Reeves as LAPD officer Jack Traven, who's on the trail of a mad bomber, Howard Payne (Dennis Hopper).

Director Jan de Bont and his Speed stars remembered the late ... played the film’s antagonist Howard Payne, a retired bomb squad officer who goes toe-to-toe with Keanu Reeves’ Los Angeles ...