Is Speed actually good?

Speed sits in the 85.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 85.4% of them.

How does Speed compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Speed lands in the 86.8% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Speed's score based on?

489 calibrated reviewers stand behind Speed's score.

1994

global pct

85.4

Film · 1994 · Films · 1990s

Speed

Name: Speed
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Released: 1994

Scored from 489 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

85.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

86.8%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

98.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

489 calibrated reviewers

Summary

An LAPD SWAT officer must keep a Los Angeles city bus moving above 50 mph after an extortionist rigs it with a bomb that will detonate if the bus slows down. With a passenger drafted into driving, he races to find a way to disarm the device and stop the bomber before time and road run out.

Speed is a 1994 action, adventure and thriller film.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 15,207 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 489 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 500 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them.