Speed
A retired bomb-squad officer with a grudge against the city wires a Santa Monica commuter bus so that it detonates if the speedometer drops below fifty, and a young SWAT officer boards it in Los Angeles morning traffic with a passenger at the wheel. Every choice is a routing problem worked out at speed. A high-concept exercise built entirely on one mechanical constraint, and the era's most imitated action premise.
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