It’s certainly an alternate ending we’d like to watch, if only so we could see the inevitable reaction shot of Arnold, still sitting awkwardly in the pilot seat of the Harrier. Picking fault with one aspect of such a wilfully over-the-top film is probably futile, but we’re going to do it anyway: with the weight of a fully-grown man dangling off it, wouldn’t the missile just drop down to the ground, perhaps blowing up any curious bystanders lurking below? As Homer Simpson once said, “I think it’s called, ‘The Bus That Couldn’t Slow Down’”. Jan de Bont’s relatively low budget 1994 thriller was a brisk, fun ride, thanks in part to its taut direction, but also because of its premise, which is surely the stuff of Hollywood cliché by now – crackpot bomber Howard Payne (Dennis Hopper) has wired an explosive device to a busy commuter bus, which will detonate if the vehicle drops below 50 miles per hour. The pair must have skeletons made from Adamantium. This being a Fast movie, the two heroes get out of the car with little more than a scratch. We’re pretty certain that, if this stunt were attempted in real life, both passenger and driver would be killed on impact. In a gonzo act of heroism worth of the Dukes Of Hazzard, crackpot driver Brian Spilner and wisecracking passenger Roman Pierce send their classic Chevrolet Camaro careening into the side of a luxury boat owned by drug baron, Carter Varone.

The Fast franchise has always played fast and loose with the rules of physics, and at the end of 2 Fast 2 Furious, the movie reached a kind of batty zenith.

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