The next morning, a mass transit bus explodes from a bomb planted by Payne. Having survived the incident, however, Payne watches from afar. Jack and Harry are praised by Lieutenant "Mac" McMahon, and Harry is promoted. Payne flees and detonates the bomb, seemingly dying. Jack shoots Harry in the leg, forcing the bomber to release him. As they corner Payne, he takes Harry hostage. LAPD SWAT bomb disposal officers Jack Traven and Harry Temple thwart an attempt to hold an elevator filled with people for a $3 million ransom by Howard Payne, an extortionist bomber. David Edelstein considered it to be the worst sequel of all time. A sequel, Speed 2: Cruise Control, was released three years later on June 13, 1997, without Reeves' involvement. The film premiered in Hollywood on June 7, 1994, and was released in the rest of the United States on June 10, 1994, it became critically and commercially successful, grossing $350.4 million on a $30–37 million budget, becoming the fifth-highest-grossing film of 1994 and winning two Academy Awards for Best Sound Effects Editing and Best Sound. Its story revolves around a bus that is rigged by a terrorist to explode if its speed falls below 50 miles per hour. The film stars Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Joe Morton, and Jeff Daniels. Speed is a 1994 American action film directed by Jan de Bont in his feature film directorial debut.
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