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Speed 2 - Cruise Control

Speed 2 - Cruise Control (1997)

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6

Average Rating: 3.1/10
Critic Reviews: 16
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 15

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28

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Average Rating: 2.2/5
User Ratings: 204,130

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Indications were that this action sequel was in trouble before production began, when the male lead from the first film, Keanu Reeves, declined a role in the follow-up. Sandra Bullock returns as Annie Porter, an accident-prone ditz who is thrilled when her boyfriend Alex (Jason Patric) presents her with two tickets for a cruise ship vacation to the Bahamas. The trip is a peace offering presented because Annie has just learned that Alex is a police officer who's been lying to her about his choice

Mar 9, 1999

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All Critics (52) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (51) | DVD (8)

Do yourself a favor and see a movie instead.

July 21, 2009 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comments (2)
Chicago Reader
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[It] sinks faster than a rock.

July 21, 2009 Full Review Source: Washington Post
Washington Post
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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.

September 1, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety
Variety
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Dafoe'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.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
Time Out
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Speed 2 doesn't have much in mind besides convincing an audience that a runaway ocean liner is a dynamic menace. Fine, but it doesn't beat a runaway bus.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times
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Even the film's big-ticket closing stunts are more impressive for their size than for any excitement they generate.

February 14, 2001 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times
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By the time you get to rescue Annie from the madman one last time, it's time to check out.

July 21, 2009 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide
TV Guide's Movie Guide

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.

July 21, 2009 Full Review Source: Film4
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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.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews
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Cruise control indeed, as in slow and phoned-in, coasting by on what is passed off as thrills.

October 13, 2007 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com
TheMovieReport.com

De Bont simply reprises the first film.

April 9, 2005 Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews
Reeling Reviews

If 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.

June 23, 2004 Full Review Source: Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)

This film is less of a sequel and more of a carbon copy.

February 11, 2004 Full Review
rec.arts.movies.reviews

When some people talk about how much they loathed 1997's Big Boat Movie, I think they must mean this one.

October 20, 2003
AboutFilm.com

Sixty minutes of poorly photographed rescue attempts sum up the substance of the movie.

May 14, 2003
Palo Alto Weekly

Literally has to be the worst 'event' film ever made.

April 1, 2003
Juicy Cerebellum

Incredible ineptitude, a terminally shaky camera and plotholes you could drive the universe through.

March 28, 2003
Oz
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Sandra Bullock is as winning as usual and Willem Dafoe has great fun chewing up the scenery as the villain. Unfortunately, there's not much chemistry between Bullock and Patric, so the love story doesn't work.

March 16, 2003 Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope
Laramie Movie Scope

It's painful to see Mr. Dafoe, an excellent actor, reduced to a snarling mad dog who treats his fatal disease -- copper poisoning? -- with leeches and spouts lines like ''Now you're gonna get it!''

October 15, 2002 Full Review Source: Cincinnati Enquirer
Cincinnati Enquirer

A complete waste of time.

August 22, 2002
Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah)

Audience Reviews for Speed 2 - Cruise Control

Not as good as the first movie. This time it's a speeding boat! Good cast.
July 14, 2007
thmtsang
Candy Rose

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Whereas SPEED was implausible fun, SPEED 2 is a thoroughly quizzical bore. The first half an hour is a fluffy romance. Alex waves tickets to a cruise liner in front of Annie's face, Annie complains, cut to the next scene when they're on the ship and suddenly Annie is having the time of her life, flaunt the grandeurs of the cruise ship, flaunt Annie's love toward Alex, yadda yadda yadda. There is little transition to the panicking of the action sequences that begin nearly thirty-five minutes through, and we're still stuck in the bright, happy, cheerful state of mind that blanketed the film for so long. The worst part about these action sequences is that somehow, they can't manage (even with a villain who is slightly less corny than Dennis Hopper) to make a human heart accelerate any faster than it normally does. The first SPEED was a well-done thriller. Acting, camerawork, and music guaranteed heartrate to double. But those all seem to drown here. I got tired of predicting and laughing at every action that happened, so I got bored. I got bored of being bored, so I asked for some chloroform.

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August 12, 2011
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