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Do yourself a favor and see a movie instead.
[It] sinks faster than a rock.
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.
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.
Even the film's big-ticket closing stunts are more impressive for their size than for any excitement they generate.
Speed 2 can be numbered among the worst second chapters ever made.
By the time you get to rescue Annie from the madman one last time, it's time to check out.
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.
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.
Cruise control indeed, as in slow and phoned-in, coasting by on what is passed off as thrills.
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.
De Bont simply reprises the first film.
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.
This film is less of a sequel and more of a carbon copy.
When some people talk about how much they loathed 1997's Big Boat Movie, I think they must mean this one.
Sixty minutes of poorly photographed rescue attempts sum up the substance of the movie.
Literally has to be the worst 'event' film ever made.
Incredible ineptitude, a terminally shaky camera and plotholes you could drive the universe through.
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.
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!''
A complete waste of time.
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