Kevin Lomax (Keanu Reeves) may be the best trial lawyer you ever meet. He’s never lost a case. So when he manages to win one where he just knows the guy is guilty, he attracts some unexpected attention.
He gets an invitation from a fancy New York City law firm to come up and visit, all expenses paid, to pick a jury. And what’s more is that he gets to bring his wife Mary Ann (Charlize Theron) along for the ride. It’s too good to be true.
Officer Jack Traven (Keanu Reeves) foils the plot of a bomber, and the next day as he gets a coffee, he witnesses a city bus blown to smithereens. Then he receives a call that another city bus has a bomb on it, and when it accelerates to fifty miles per hour, the bomb is armed. If it goes below fifty, the bomb will detonate. Suddenly he has to try to help the people on this other bus. Can he make it in time?
The first task is to find the bomb, and the bomber has determined that this game has certain rules. Of course one of those rules is finding the bus, and in a city the size of Los Angeles, being able to find a lone bus is a difficult task at best, so Jack has a bus number and is told where the bus is. Now he just needs to get to it. This he does.
Since he can’t get to the bus stop on time, he has to catch a lift by taking over a car and driving alongside like a maniac, and eventually jumping into the bus itself, but by then it’s too late. The bus has already hit fifty miles per hour and the bomb is armed. The game is on.
Keanu Reeves sure has come a long way since the days of Bill and Ted. This time around, he plays John Constantine, star of the comic Hellblazer, cursed with the “gift” of seeing those spirits that are unseen by the rest of the world.
So he spends most of the movie running about the place (which could be a single city, a larger state, country or even an entire world), battling these demons, which only he can see, wth some supposed purpose that us mere mortals cannot hope to fathom. And that essentially wraps it up, so far as I coudl tell.
This one won’t make many classic lists. It won’t make many lists at all, unless you count lists of movies that need to be thrown out. But it is typically good for an afternoon (or morning, as the case may be) of fun. Starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter (talk about diverging career paths) as two high schoolers on the verge of flunking history.
Lucky for them, Rufus (played by the inimitable George Carlin) is on his way from the future with a time-traveling phone booth that will allow them to pick up some of history’s most notable characters, bring them back to present-day San Dimas, and pass their history report.
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