You can always count on Joss Whedon to produce greatness.

When called in to doctor the script for Speed and make the lead character Jack Tavern (Keanu Reeves) more believable, less clich, and frankly just less of an overall wang, Whedon waved his magic JossWand and helped create one of the most financially and critically successful action movies of its time.Howard Payne (Dennis Hopper), a pissed off retired police officer, decides to earn his retirement fund by planting bombs on a couple of buses and then demanding ransom in exchange for not blowing them up. SWAT team member Jack Tavern races to action after witnessing one bus explode in a hailstorm of flames and metal. He boards another bus only to find that it, too, has a bomb and a Sandra Bullock, and that this bus will also explode if it drops below 50 miles per hour. What to do, what to do?