


But most were pretty disappointing for one reason or another. Don’t get me wrong, some of those movies, like True Lies, are decent. Instead, Tinseltown was betting its chip stack on The Crow, Beverly Hills Cop III, Blown Away, The Shadow, True Lies, The Client, and Clear and Present Danger. And yet, as May approached, no one in the industry expected Fox’s $30-million bomb-on-a-bus flick, Speed, to be the phenomenon it would become.

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