Speed 2 - Cruise Control Reviews
Top CriticSpeed 2 is the most exciting to date of this summer's big action pictures.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Movies like this embrace goofiness with an almost sensual pleasure. And so, on a warm summer evening, do I.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Speed 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.
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.
