"Blown Away" and "Speed" weren't quite the same movie same year like "Big" and "Vice Versa" in 1988, or "Leviathan," "DeepStar Six," and "The Abyss" in 1989, or like "The Prestige" and "The Illusionist" in 2006, but they were close enough.
"Blown Away" featured a Spy-vs.-Spy type plot with Jimmy Dove (Jeff Bridges) as the good spy and Ryan Gaerity (Tommy Lee Jones) as the bad spy. Gaerity was a savant when it came to explosives and he had a thing for Jimmy. When Gaerity broke out of prison in Ireland he headed straight to Boston, Massachusetts in order to blow up Jimmy's world.
Jimmy was an explosives expert with a near death wish. He was always throwing caution to the wind to save whoever he could, much to the chagrin of his fiancé, Kate (Suzy Amis).
Unfortunately for this movie, though it had amazing pyrotechnics and cool close up shots, it was a little to similar to the more successful movie, "Speed." There was even a scene at the end in which Kate couldn't tap the brakes on her car or else it would've blown up.
"Blown Away" went for more dramatic flare and emotionality juxtaposed to the action-packed "Speed." I think they made it too passionate and emotional. It seemed like every other scene Jimmy aka Liam was in a slow motion run to save someone's life with his mouth agape in a desperate yell. You gotta limit those types of scenes to maximize their effect. Too much drama equals desensitization-just like a T.V. show in which main characters are killed left and right.
"Blown Away" featured a Spy-vs.-Spy type plot with Jimmy Dove (Jeff Bridges) as the good spy and Ryan Gaerity (Tommy Lee Jones) as the bad spy. Gaerity was a savant when it came to explosives and he had a thing for Jimmy. When Gaerity broke out of prison in Ireland he headed straight to Boston, Massachusetts in order to blow up Jimmy's world.
Jimmy was an explosives expert with a near death wish. He was always throwing caution to the wind to save whoever he could, much to the chagrin of his fiancé, Kate (Suzy Amis).
Unfortunately for this movie, though it had amazing pyrotechnics and cool close up shots, it was a little to similar to the more successful movie, "Speed." There was even a scene at the end in which Kate couldn't tap the brakes on her car or else it would've blown up.
"Blown Away" went for more dramatic flare and emotionality juxtaposed to the action-packed "Speed." I think they made it too passionate and emotional. It seemed like every other scene Jimmy aka Liam was in a slow motion run to save someone's life with his mouth agape in a desperate yell. You gotta limit those types of scenes to maximize their effect. Too much drama equals desensitization-just like a T.V. show in which main characters are killed left and right.