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Speed 2: Cruise Control
1997
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Speed 2: Cruise Control
Positive Reviews
10
Negative reviews
31
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1.9
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1.0
But like De Bonts awful Twister, Speed 2: Cruise Control somehow manages to fail in every way.
Av Club
2.0
As Einstein pointed out, two hours in a movie theater can feel like eternity if youre going nowhere fast.
EW
3.8
And when pleasure boaters somehow fail to see a full size runaway ocean liner until it is three feet from them.Movies like this embrace goofiness with ..
Rogerebert
0.5
Dafoes take on Dennis Hoppers Hopper impersonation is plain pointless; Bullock too is wasted in a ditzy half role; and Patric is unsmiling and resolut ..
Time Out
1.5
Its really more a remake of Stallones recent Daylight than any kind of sequel to Speed.
1.0
This endearingly goofy behavior is enough to make us wish someone had pumped those bus brakes in the first movie.
2.0
Speed 2s seemingly endless climax is a good example of this, despite the fact that its, well, seemingly endless.
1.3
It wont be long before shes past the age for playing plucky yet ditsy females.
San Francisco Chronicle
0.0
This may be hard to believe, but theres not a single moment of drama or tension in any of the action sequences.And the film is made up almost entirely ..
San Francisco Chronicle
3.0
The inevitable Speed 2 docks with a dippy subtitle, a convenient pun characteristic of the entire movie, which isnt anything like bad just likely to i ..
2.5
The original Speed and its successor are as streamlined in purpose as a bus hopping a concrete divider these movies are about the pleasure of resource ..
Ny Daily News
1.9
Geiger has no manic energy, and Dafoe doesnt seem particularly excited to be playing him.
ReelViews
1.0
Speed made millions on mindless, empty thrills; this laborious sequel is just as mindless and empty but lacks the thrills.
Chicago Reader
4.0
This is the mark of the exciting combination of good writing, good directing and good acting.
3.0
There are lots of stunts and lots of explosions and lots of close calls.Lots of humor is added to the plot and surprisingly few people are killed for ..
Lariat
2.0
Action thriller sequel, with Sandra Bullock, Jason Patric and Willem Dafoe.
Radio Times
2.5
Its all idiotic but energetic, directed by Jan De Bont in his usual techno action style.
Cs Monitor
2.5
This one is so chaotic that its hard to believe it was directed by Jan De Bont, even though he is perhaps to blame more than anyone else for the corru ..
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
1.0
As the shipboard action erupts, so do several annoying movie clichs.
Internet Reviews
4.5
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.
Internet Reviews
1.5
Men dont need to fear her, because she isnt too competent shes a terrible driver, for example.
1.9
Ant Man and the Wasp Like its predecessor Ant Man (2015), Ant Man and the Wasp benefits substantially from its relatively low stakes.
Q Network
4.5
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 intens ..
Salon
3.0
A pedestrian thriller that never captures the thrill of the first, and even more criminally sidelines Bullock.
Empire
1.0
Speed 2 is a disaster of a disaster movie, an overly long (at 125 minutes), intensely dull and highly predictable film that is badly made and hideousl ..
2.0
The human propensity to tamper with a good thing is probably ineluctable.
Time
2.5
Cruise control indeed, as in slow and phoned in, coasting by on what is passed off as thrills.
Mr Brown Movies
2.5
EDT (0157 GMT) By Movie Reviewer Carol Buckland The original Speed was a surprise smash.It was a Grade B action flick that unexpectedly clicked with a ..
Cnn
1.3
It rose above the action genre because of DeBonts relentless direction and clever casting.
Spliced Wire
2.0
The fact that the rescue process inadvertently kills off more people than it saves tends to lessen the tension by utterly devaluing human life.
Boxoffice Magazine
2.5
This is not a surprising sequel, popped out of the same only different mold.
Movies Tv Guide
2.0
Fortunately, the music by Mark Mancina returns, though it doesnt chime in frequently enough.
1.5
A witless, charmless actioner that even Bullock has distanced herself from and by the time it reaches the just plain silly finale, it isnt hard to see ..
Film 4
2.5
Only one man has the expertise and the nerve to stop him, and its not the overweight representative of Fatbusters.
La Times
3.8
Our Flick of the Week is Speed 2, which succeeds just as its predecessor did by giving us enough fresh action for two movies, hosted by two extremely ..
Articles Chicago Tribune
1.0
Director Jan De Bont made a dazzling debut with the 1994 Speed.His riveting direction of action triumphed over a hackneyed, illogical script littered ..
Sf Weekly
2.5
Theres very little to tell about the story that you cant figure out from the two minute trailer.
Tulsa World
2.5
Its the only way youll achieve satisfaction.Its vindictive, but somebody should pay for this truly horrid sequel.
Seattle Times
2.0
As if character development and narrative complexity are what make these movies so much fun.
Articles Orlando Sentinel
2.5
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 filmmake ..
Articles Philly
1.3
A movie that is blessedly bad enough to ensure that there will be no Speed 3.
Articles Philly
1.9
The biggest shortcoming of Speed 2 is that it lacks the clever conceit of its predecessor, the idea that a bus will explode if it slows down.
Articles Baltimore Sun
2.0
Speed and Twister were hardly models of dramaturgy and performance, but owing to De Bonts imagination and masterful pacing, they were superior example ..
Articles Sun Sentinel
1.3
With the middle hour removed, Speed 2 would be a mildly entertaining experience.The first half hour is all Bullock, whose charm and breezy one liners ..
Paloalto Online
1.5
The sequel retains only the title, a bored director, and a boring actress.
Boston Phoenix
1.3
It is exactly the type of movie that gives a bad name to sequels.
Cine Matter
0.5
They truly ruined a whole franchise in just two movies...never seen something like this, cant even reboot it now...
Double Toasted
3.1
If Speed 2 and lets say, Kissed, a dark comedy about a woman necrophile, were the very last two movies at the video store, I would pick Kissed.
Courier-Journal (Louisvill ..
1.5
Bullock and Patric seem to be extremely good sports, given how little they have to work with (the film is clever, but strangely unengaging).
3.0
The males had a positive reaction to Bullock in a couple of skimpy outfits; females had the same reaction to Patrics open shirts and tux.But that isnt ..
Film Scouts
1.3
Omarosa has treasure trove to back her book Its more than just audio tapes: Omarosa Manigault Newman has a trove of tapes, video, emails, texts and ot ..
Enquirer
2.5
De Bonts annoyingly jerky camera seldom stays still, the personable and appealing Bullock is given virtually nothing to do, the plot twists range from ..
Spokesman-Review (Washingt ..
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