A pedestrian thriller that never captures the thrill of the first, and even more criminally sidelines Bullock.
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01/01/00
Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)
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Reviews Counted:50
Fresh:1
Rotten:49
Average Rating:3.1/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: Spry "Speed" survivor Annie Porter (Bullock) can't seem to escape maniacal terrorists, as she discovers soon after boarding a posh luxury liner with her engagement-minded boyfriend, Alex. The bad... [More]
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Jason Patric, Willem Dafoe, Temuera Morrison
Director: Jan de Bont
Reviews for Speed 2: Cruise Control
Top CriticA witless, charmless actioner that even Bullock has distanced herself from -- and by the time it reaches the just plain silly finale, it isn't hard to see why.
07/21/09
Top CriticDafoe's take on Dennis Hopper's Hopper impersonation is plain pointless; Bullock too is wasted in a ditzy half-role; and Patric is unsmiling and resolutely uncharismatic.
02/09/06
Top CriticThis film is less of a sequel and more of a carbon copy.
02/11/04
Sixty minutes of poorly photographed rescue attempts sum up the substance of the movie.
05/14/03
Speed 2 can be numbered among the worst second chapters ever made.
01/01/00
The most un-called for sequel in recent memory.
01/01/00
This is the kind of movie that Chuck Norris would have made 15 years ago, except there would be two dozen bad guys and plenty more excitement.
10/18/08
De Bont simply reprises the first film.
04/09/05
Cruise control indeed, as in slow and phoned-in, coasting by on what is passed off as thrills.
10/13/07
Movies like this embrace goofiness with an almost sensual pleasure. And so, on a warm summer evening, do I.
01/01/00
Top CriticIf Speed 2 and let's say, Kissed, a dark comedy about a woman necrophile, were the very last two movies at the video store, I would pick Kissed.
06/23/04
Bullock and Patric seem to be extremely good sports, given how little they have to work with (the film is clever, but strangely unengaging).
01/01/00
Speed 2 finds director De Bont and actor Bullock too content to coast on automatic.
01/01/00
This one is so chaotic that it's hard to believe it was directed by Jan De Bont, even though he is perhaps to blame more than anyone else for the corruption of this genre.
01/01/00
What a reeking bag of nothingness! What emptiness, what vaporous vapidity! What rot, stink, and whiff of mold spore!
01/01/00
The fact that the rescue process inadvertently kills off more people than it saves tends to lessen the tension by utterly devaluing human life.
06/05/02
There went two hours of my life that I shall never see again.
01/01/00
As the shipboard action erupts, so do several annoying movie clichés.
01/01/00
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