Speed 2: Cruise Control | | Cast : | Sandra Bullock, Jason Patric | | Director : | Jan de Bont | | Studio : | Fox Home Entertainme | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | June 13, 1997 | | DVD Released Date : | July 30, 2002 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 09, 2005 | | Summary | Horrible | Content
 | This is by far the worst sequel ever. An award winning movie (worst remake/sequel) deserves its award and more. Dennis Hopper is replaced by Willem Dafoe who does an awful job considering his incredible performances in other films like Platton and The Clearing. Sandra Bullock is still here but her original intensity in the first movie is replaced by screwball, moronic diologue and bad acting. And Keanu Reeves is replaced with Jason Patric (Did I get his name right?) who does a fake acting job (I'm not saying that Keanu is the best actor on the earth, but he did a much better job). And Jan de Bont screws up the perfect movie with a retarded sequel. Skip this one. I don't usually encourage the Nazi way of life, but go ahead and burn this one in a huge pile. Crap Crapity Crap.
The Plot
They're on a boat and it's going to hit and island. That's about it. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 04, 2005 | | Summary | SPEED 2 NEEDS A LIFEBOAT | Content
| SPEED was such a rush of a film because it took off like a cannonball and never let up; we felt real jeopardy was in place for the people on the bus and Keanu and Sandra made the heroes believable and likeable. In this alarmingly ineffectual sequel, Sandra Bullock is reduced to whining and moaning about Jason Patric's deception, and she doesn't play as pivotal a role in the capturing of demented maniac Willem Defoe. They even bring back the irrepressible Glenn Plummer in a different role but providing the same type of character: a nervous guy who finds his boat taken over by Patric in his attempts to snare Defore. He did it in the first one with his Porsche and Keanu. Director Jan DeBont's pacing is significantly slower in this one, although the movie somehow ALMOST redeems itself with its cataclysmic climax of the boat destroying a small resort area. We don't feel the same kind of breathless peril we felt in SPEED, and Dafoe's reasoning for wanting to wreck the ship into the oiler is far less convincing than madman Dennis Hopper's in the original. The leeches addition is banal, and Dafoe's fate because he was a computer programmer (deadly copper exposure) is as far fetched as it is ridiculous.
SPEED 2 didn't catch on at all, and whether Keanu had returned, it probably still wouldn't have improved it..the script is so poorly conceived, I don't think Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman could have saved this one. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 12, 2005 | | Summary | Why do they make junk like this? | Content
| You would have to be a moron to like this movie.
Stupid plot. Bad acting. no redeeming scenes at all! |
| Rating | | | Date | March 11, 2005 | | Summary | When it comes to money losing sequels, here is the champ | Content
| The primary point of a sequel is usually to make money (the second chapter in trilogies regarding Hobbits or Jedi masters do not count), but when such a movie fails to do that it simply confirms how good the original was in the first place. This week I am seriously thinking that "Speed 2" is a prime contender for the worst sequel of all time. From a monetary perspective there are few challengers. The original "Speed" was made for $28 million and raked in $121 million at the box office. 20th Century Fox spent $110 million making "Speed 2," and it showed a return of $48 million. At what point in the history of the known universe the script for "Speed 2" read like it was worth four times the funding? Is there somebody in Hollywood right now thinking they should give somebody a billion dollars to make "The Silmarillion" into three or four films?
The other driving question is whether the film would have been better if Keanu Reeves had come along for the repeat ride? Granted, he was right to walk away from this script written by Randall McCormick and Jeff Nathanson based on a story by McCormick and director Jan de Bont, which uses characters originally created by Graham Yost. But "Speed 2" would have probably worked better if Officer Jack Traven was still around. That is because the biggest flaw of the film, beyond the fact that the same characters end up in incredibly strange circumstances, is that the main character who does return for the sequel, Sandra Bullock's Annie Porter, is playing second fiddle to a new hero, Jason Patric's Officer Alex Shaw. If Annie is still Jack's sidekick that is one thing, but given her experience she should be doing more when teamed up with Alex, because he ain't Jack (he just plays the same role in this movie).
Annie has broken up with Jack and has been in a relationship with Alex, but since they are going through some bumpy times he takes her on a romantic cruise in the Caribbean on the "Seabourn Legend." The only problem, and it is a big one, is that John Geiger (Willem Dafoe), a crazy computer genius, takes over the ship, puts the engines on maximum overdrive, and starts looking for something big to crash the ship into in a blaze of destruction. One of the many problems with this film is that the ship has to end up in a spectacular crash (the bus in Speed had to blow up; the question was whether they could get everybody off before they did, but that will not work with a luxury liner). But before that happens there have to be a series of set pieces involving key parts of the "Seabourn Legend" (I know, it is "The Love Boat" on "Speed," but that is just too easy a shot to take). Unfortunately none of them have the energy or creative flair of the original film and for most of this film we are saying, "Just crash the ship already."
Another major problem is that Bullock is the most interesting character in the film be default. True, there is a reservoir of good will towards the actress because she was so winsome in the first film, becoming America's new gal next door in the process. But Defoe, who is capable of playing a magic psycho is doing this one by rote, and Patric is stuck in serious gear from start to finish. It is not surprising that they are having problems, but that they got together in the first place (the psychological problems of Annie finding a Jack-clone as her new boyfriend is not as strange as the ex-First Lady ending up with a look-alike of her dead husband in "Dave," but it does not bode well). The only reason to do a third film in this series is so that Annie can finally get a decent boyfriend who will stick around.
"Speed" was basically sold to Hollywood as "Die Hard" on a bus, and in terms of tinsel town's penchant for making major economic decisions on the basis of such cinematic reductio ad absurdum it was the exception that proves the rule. At least, you could mention "Speed" and "Die Hard" in the same breath. But with "Speed 2" we are talking about being in the company of "Caddyshack II," "Exorcist II: The Heretic," and "Nightmare on Elm Street, Part 2: Freddy's Revenge" (feel free to add you own personal stinker sequels to this list). |
| Rating | | | Date | November 10, 2004 | | Summary | did anyone read the script? | Content
| I guess no one read the script thouroughly before jumping feet first with the kitchen sink into the vast mess of this horrible sequel. The only satisfying note I want to add is Keanu Reeves is a genius...he didnt star in this one, thank god. Good for you Keanu..good for you dude. This one has Sandra Bullock (Speed, Murder 8y Numbers) now, without a Keanu Reeves and now with a Jason Patric (Narc, The Lost Boys) only reason he didnt tell her he was working for ironically for the people Keanu was working for. So this pisses her off, he surprises her with a cruise ship....they have a good time but the only thing is they got on the wrong boat at the wrong time see there's this terroist, Willem Dafoe (Spider-Man, Wild At Heart) and he has taking hold of the boat. Now he wants demands and stuff otherwise he blows it up. Patric then thinks he can try to stop Dafoe. Are we sensing a familiar sense? Long, dreadful sequel to the already better original. Jan DeBont must of been smoking the wrong stuff when he came up with this one. Even some interesting but washed away action scenes dont even cut the bill. Also starring Joe Morton (Speed, Executive Decision), Tim Conway, Temuera Morrison (Six Days, Seven Nights, The Island Of Dr. Moreau 96'), Collen Camp (Die Hard With A Vengance, Clue) and Glenn Plummer (Speed, The Salton Sea). what a waste, huh? |
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