A 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.
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07/21/09
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 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 CriticA pedestrian thriller that never captures the thrill of the first, and even more criminally sidelines Bullock.
01/01/00
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04/12/02
Top CriticLiterally has to be the worst 'event' film ever made.
04/01/03
A complete waste of time.
08/22/02
Bullock should be thinking about changing management.
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
When some people talk about how much they loathed 1997's Big Boat Movie, I think they must mean this one.
10/20/03
I hope that somewhere Keanu Reeves is laughing about being considered a nonactor while the wax dummy Jason Patric has somehow achieved a rep as intense and gifted.
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
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
Just about as bad as they come.
01/01/00
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
[It] sinks faster than a rock.
07/21/09
This film is less of a sequel and more of a carbon copy.
02/11/04
As the shipboard action erupts, so do several annoying movie clichés.
01/01/00
Speed 2 suffers from a slender script, a tedious first reel and a routine villain who lacks the entertaining menace that Speed's diabolical madman projected.
09/01/08
Top CriticSpeed 2 finds director De Bont and actor Bullock too content to coast on automatic.
01/01/00
Speed 2 can be numbered among the worst second chapters ever made.
01/01/00
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