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Speed 2: Cruise Control

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Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)

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Reviews Counted:13

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Rotten:12

Average Rating:3.2/10

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... 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 news is that the disgruntled--and recently fired--mastermind behind the ship's electronic control systems wants revenge against the ship's management, so he sets the ship on a collision course with such deadly targets as an offshore oil tanker. The good news is that Alex has been training on the sly with an elite LAPD SWAT team, so the plucky pair resolves to save their fellow passengers. [More]

Starring: Sandra Bullock, Jason Patric, Willem Dafoe, Temuera Morrison

Starring: Sandra Bullock, Jason Patric, Willem Dafoe, Temuera Morrison, Glenn Plummer, Brian McCardie, Joe Morton, Gustavo Laborie, Bo Svenson, Jeremy Hotz, Michael G. Hagerty, Colleen Camp, Lois Chiles, Francis Guinan, Tamia, Enrique Murciano, Jessica Diz, Connie Ray, Patrika Darbo, Royale Watkins, Tim Conway

Director: Jan de Bont

Director: Jan de Bont
Producer: Jan de Bont, Steve Perry
Screenwriter: Jeff Nathanson, Kevin Peterka, Gregg Chabot
Composer: Mark Mancina
Story: Jan de Bont, Randall McCormick

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Do yourself a favor and see a movie instead.

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Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
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[It] sinks faster than a rock.

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Desson Thomson
Desson Thomson
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.

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Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
Variety
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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.

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Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin
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Even the film's big-ticket closing stunts are more impressive for their size than for any excitement they generate.

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02/14/01
Kenneth Turan
Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
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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.

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01/01/00
Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor
Salon.com
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Speed 2 can be numbered among the worst second chapters ever made.

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James Berardinelli
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They keep getting worse and worse and worse . . .

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Mick LaSalle
Mick LaSalle
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A waterlogged sequel that'll soon be bottom-feeding with Beyond the Poseidon Adventure.

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Mike Clark
Mike Clark
USA Today
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Movies like this embrace goofiness with an almost sensual pleasure. And so, on a warm summer evening, do I.

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01/01/00
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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What a reeking bag of nothingness! What emptiness, what vaporous vapidity! What rot, stink, and whiff of mold spore!

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Stephen Hunter
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