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Speed

In the beginning, Jack shoots Harry in the RIGHT leg. Throughout the rest of the movie, Harry limps on his LEFT leg.

After the first bus is blown up, if you look closely there is a truck with a huge chain pulling the burning bus.

If you look at the missing part of the bridge, and look at the shadow underneath, the shadow is of a full bridge.

If you look at the bus jumping in slow motion, you will see that there is no-one inside the bus.

When the bus is going to the airport, the black/white sign on the side is crooked at one point, then straight, then crooked again.

When Dennis Hopper psyches the police chief out by making him think he's on the third floor, the elevator beeps one too many times. The camera shows the numbers: "5, beep, 4, beep" then it switches to the police chief, during which time you hear another beep. It then switches back to the numbers: "3, beep." Shouldn't it be on floor 2?

When Jack and Annie are getting off the bus via the access panel on the floor you can see wheels on the bottom of it.

When Jack and Harry are bursting onto the roof, you can see a another hand and gun right behind Harry. It looks like a double exposure or reflection.

When Jack tries to get on the bus on the highway, he his the door window and breaks it with his elbow. Later, when he finally catches up with the bus and gets on from the moving car, the door window is intact. Several times later it is visible, no break. Then later, when the bus is on the freeway, the glass is shown broken again, but in a different pattern.

When the subway carriage bursts out into the street, Annie's handcuffs slide off the broken pole and in slow motion you can see the pole is shorter than all others. Besides, all the other poles in the carriage are intact.

When Jack and Harry are pulling people out of the elevator there are two men offering to help the stubborn lady out of the elevator. 2 seconds later there is only one man jumping to get out.

After the first bus explosion when Jack answers the phone, he looks at his watch, which shows 8:00a.m. If you look closely the watch is on alarm, not regular time.

At the airport the black sign on the side of the bus disappears for one shot.

At the scene before they jump the gap, they played the film in fast forward to make the bus appear to be going faster. If you watch the police on the truck in the background, they are moving in fast forward as well!!

Right before Keanu Reeves unhandcuffs the one guy from the railing of the bus, if you look closely there is a shot of one of the camera guy's bald head as he moves out of the way. The shot is right before the bus jumps over the bridge.

At one point Dennis Hopper is mouthing something but saying something else.

When the train is sliding along the ground near the end, there are sparks coming from the underneath (supposedly where the metal scrapes the pavement). Look more closely, and you can see that the sparks are coming from a bit of the train that's not touching the pavement anywhere.

When the bus is going around the very tight corner onto the highway everyone is told to lean to one side so the bus won't go over. The bus is turning left but on the interior shot of the bus everyone is leaning as though they were turning right (or vice versa).


Speed 2: Cruise Control

Throughout the movie, the cameras show a wide shot of the cruise liner from the sky, the evening before all the commotion look for the name of the ship, it is painted over, but the next morning, the name is perfectly readable.

When the oil tanker blows up, if you slow the video down you can see a cow go flying out of the explosion in the upper right corner of the screen.

Updated 29/5/98 by JWES