Speed 2 - Cruise Control Reviews
Top CriticSpeed 2 is frantic action, tinny dialogue, perfunctory characterization and tried-and-false plot pilferings.
Baltimore Sun
Action heroes are best when they are charming, winsome and witty. Bullock is inane, annoying and whiny.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
De Bont remains an expert director of action, but putting the reference to cruise control in the title serves as fair warning of an unengaged filmmaker on automatic pilot.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Philadelphia Daily News
A movie that is blessedly bad enough to ensure that there will be no Speed 3.
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| Original Score: 1/4
AV Club
Speed cost something like $30 million; this sequel cost four times as much. So why is it such a feeble, aimless piece of junk in comparison?
The human propensity to tamper with a good thing is probably ineluctable.
Christian Science Monitor
It's all idiotic but energetic, directed by Jan De Bont in his usual techno-action style.
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| Original Score: 2/4
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
The wind goes out of this tub's sails long before it reaches port.
Speed 2 is the most exciting to date of this summer's big action pictures.
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| Original Score: 3/4
It's a complete lack of story that explains why this expensive production from the proficient creator of Speed and Twister sputters out on the high seas.
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| Original Score: D+
TV Guide's Movie Guide
By the time you get to rescue Annie from the madman one last time, it's time to check out.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Film4
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.
Do yourself a favor and see a movie instead.
rec.arts.movies.reviews
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.
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.
