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Speed

Speed

Common Sense Media Age 15

Parents Need To Know

Positive Messages
Treatment of ethnic minorities is even-handed and inclusive. Members of the police force treat people well and are unselfish, respectful, and extremely courageous, willing to sacrifice their lives for the welfare of the people they serve. A female character, who is an ordinary citizen, is shown to be brave, capable, and strong. The heroes behave honorably; the villain is a maniacal criminal.
Positive Role Models & Representations
Violence
Opening scene: a knife into the head of a security guard, killing him instantly, followed by a scary sequence with a bomb in an elevator shaft. More bloody action follows, including: a bus explosion with driver inside, woman falling to her death under a bus, hostages shown with dynamite strapped to their bodies, a house blown up with several police officers inside, an on-camera decapitation, and multiple hand-to-hand fighting scenes. Leading characters are frequently in life-and-death situations, some of which end badly.
Sex
While getting lifted out of an elevator on verge of falling down the shaft, a woman's skirt rises, briefly exposing buttocks in pantyhose. While drunk in a bar, a lead character announces that he's going home to have sex. Lead characters talk about how they will have to "base [their relationship] on sex then." Reference to masturbation. Reference to ejaculation. Kissing.
Language
Profanity regularly used. "F--k" used several times. Also "bulls--t," "s--t," "pr--k," "a--hole," "goddamn," "pissed," "balls," "hard-on," "cajones."
Consumerism
Not applicable
Education Value
Ease of Play
Privacy
One scene shows police officers drinking at a celebration after a rescue operation.
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