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Speed 2: Cruise Control

Starring Sandra Bullock, Jason Patric, Willem Dafoe

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Please Note: Reader Reviews are submitted by the readers of The BigScreen Cinema Guide and represent their own personal opinions regarding this movie, and do not represent the views of The BigScreen Cinema Guide, or any of its associated entities.

Jan 25, 2000
Trouble seems to follow Sandra Bullock everywhere she goes, and that doesn't change with this movie. The beginning of the movie has Annie taking her drivers license test with instructor Mr. Kenter (Tim Conway). Her old driving habits haven't changed!

But, this movie isn't about driving buses, cars, or other land-based vehicles, it's about a huge cruise ship that careens out of control across the Caribbean.

Annie (Bullock) has dumped Jack (Keanu Reeves) in favor of a police officer, Alex (Jason Patric) who is supposedly a little more stable. However, he wasn'tcompletely honest with her on what his job with the police force really was.

To appease Annie, Alex suggests that the two of them get away on a tropical vacation aboard a nice relaxing cruise ship.

Of course, from there is quickly descends into one disaster scene after another. Alex is all too serious about everything, and all Annie can do is complain,"Why does this always happen to me!?"

This was another one of those mindless action movies where if you don't pay any attention to the plot, and don't get caught up in hating the characters too much, the picture is kind of enjoyable. Sure there are numerous scenes too far fetched to be believable, but it's not like this movie was supposed to be a documentary.

I liked the return of the "guy with the Jag" from the first movie even though he's equally as useless here.

Think of a cross between the Poseidon Adventure and Die Hard, and you've got the movie figured out. Wait till it's at a budget theater so you can still see it on the "Big Screen", but don't go out of your way to see this film over any other one.

Copyright 1997 - Ron Higgins
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Jan 25, 2000
First of all...it was an okay film to watch, I've definitely seen worse sequels!

I will cut right to the chase...remember in Speed 1, when the bus just rolled along the airport runway for about fifteen minutes and the bus kept running over that same tire tread (and you wondered why no one went out there to move it out of the way)...well in Speed 2, they just kept running over the same patch of water over and over. I swear if the Titanic takes this long to sink, we are not going to have a big boat movie again for some time (sorry, Love Boat fans).

Honestly, the movie just got boring...Baywatch has just as exciting opening scenes with fast boats (and cuter characters) than this film did. Bottom line....go see it in the theater, because if you are going to be disappointed, you might as well see a big boat go down on a big screen rather than down the tube.

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Jan 25, 2000
"Speed 2: Cruise Control" is slow. And for a sequel to one of the greatest action films of all time, that is disaster. This new sequel actually has severalscenes without action. Let me take that back, the first forty mintues are action free.

After that, "Speed 2" plays like an aquatic version of "The Towering Inferno." For 124 minutes, it's a disaster flick about a terrorist who takes over a cruiseliner to steal some expensive diamonds, but the ship has fires, bombs, water. ("Towering" territory) You have a disaster couple: Annie (Sandra Bullock), the charming and likeable girl from the original film who is a snappy and boring girl here, and Alex (Jason Patric), who is NOT Keanu Reeves' substitute, rather a LAPD cop. You get disaster couples and groups of people ("Towering" territory) on board: a deaf girl, a fat people's convention, etc. So when the action kicksin, we are asked to care about these ten or twelve people while the photography, both dizzying and furious (95% of this film was shot with a handheld camera) makes you seasick.

But when the action does kick in, it's fairly exciting. There is a good scene involving Alex trying to stop the propellor with rope swimming right next to it,and the ship crashing near an oil tanker is a good sight. But when the characters are dead, along with some of the story, and since this is a sequel to an all-time contender action masterpiece, it's quite a shock. The original was actual speed. This movie is cruise control. Grade: C+

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Jan 25, 2000
This should have been titled "Speed 2: Snooze Control"!

Feb 21, 2006
Keanu Reeves\' absent from this sequel didn\'t slow this movie down. Sandra Bullock is back, this time it\'s on a cruise like with another crediable villian. Not as good as the first movie, but \"Speed 2:Cruise Control\" has it exiciting moments.
Jan 28, 2008
This is definitely rental-only material. It screams of being a sequel for a sequel's sake.

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