Speed 2 - Cruise Control Reviews
Speed 2 is frantic action, tinny dialogue, perfunctory characterization and tried-and-false plot pilferings.
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
The human propensity to tamper with a good thing is probably ineluctable.
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+
Do yourself a favor and see a movie instead.
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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Top CriticDafoe'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.
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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| Original Score: 2/5
Even the film's big-ticket closing stunts are more impressive for their size than for any excitement they generate.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
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
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.
A waterlogged sequel that'll soon be bottom-feeding with Beyond the Poseidon Adventure.
| Original Score: 1.5/4
Speed 2 can be numbered among the worst second chapters ever made.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
What a reeking bag of nothingness! What emptiness, what vaporous vapidity! What rot, stink, and whiff of mold spore!
