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Annie Porter and her new boyfriend Alex Shaw are having problems... she's just found out he has lied to her about his job, he is in the LAPD SWAT but had lied to her because of the stories she told him about the problems she had with Jack Travern.
He offers to make amends by taking her on a romantic Cruise around the Caribbean...
... unbenkown to them, John Geiger is aboard the ship and he plans on robbing the ship of its cargo of Jewellery... and to add more peril, he's laced the decks of the ship with explosives...
It's up to Alex and Annie to stop the maniac and get on with their romantic break.
What an awful movie.
Speed 2 is not just cashed in, it's cheap, cheesie, full of terrible action sequences and is filled to the brim with wooden acting and badly written dialogue.
Sadly, it's just trying to live up to the superior original.
It's also easy to see why Keanu Reeves turned down an offer to return.
Which may be why it doesn't work on many other levels, there's little for the audience to care for with the rewritten characters.
The filmmakers have tried very hard to give the film an air that's recognisable, but it falls flat with the cashed in script and screenplay.
The overall exposition is pretty dull and uninteresting too. You just don't care about what's going on.
The story is also boring and much of a muchness. A guy who is threatening to detonate bombs while stealing jewellery. Yawn.
The acting is awful too.
Sandra Bullock returns as Annie... and even Bullock herself has been quoted as hating the film, wishing she'd never made it.
Willem Dafoe is also off form. He's hardly threatening, has little charisma and seem to be wondering why he's in the film.
Jason Patric is also miscast. I love Patric, he's one of my favourite actors, but here in a rewritten Keanu role, he just completely dies. He's wooden, out of his depth in the action and has very little likeability.
Temuera Morrison makes a show too... put it this way, any film with Morrison on the cast list is bound to be a Razzie winner.
Which brings me to the overall action and effects.
They're cheap, badly choreographed and the handful of computer effects are badly rendered and hold little excitement when they're used to 'enhance' the more exciting cinema.
There's not really much else I can say about Speed 2 without resaying more and more about how crap it is.
Speed 2: Cruise Control
Year Of Release
1997
Director
Jan De Bont
Producer
Jan De Bont, Steve Perry, Michael Peyser
Writer
Jan De Bont, Randall McCormick, Jeff Nathanson
Cast
Sandra Bullock, Jason Patric, Temuera Morrison, Colleen Camp and Willem Dafoe
Notes
Similarly to Speed, Speed 2 has connections to other action movies... initially the script for Speed 2 was written to be the sequel to Die Hard, basically Die Hard on a boat... but was rewritten into Speed 2. On a similar note, the original Die Hard film was actually written to be a sequel to Schwarzenegger's Commando
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Year Of Release
1997
Director
Jan De Bont
Producer
Jan De Bont, Steve Perry, Michael Peyser
Writer
Jan De Bont, Randall McCormick, Jeff Nathanson
Cast
Sandra Bullock, Jason Patric, Temuera Morrison, Colleen Camp and Willem Dafoe
Notes
Similarly to Speed, Speed 2 has connections to other action movies... initially the script for Speed 2 was written to be the sequel to Die Hard, basically Die Hard on a boat... but was rewritten into Speed 2. On a similar note, the original Die Hard film was actually written to be a sequel to Schwarzenegger's Commando
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Annie Porter and her new boyfriend Alex Shaw are having problems... she's just found out he has lied to her about his job, he is in the LAPD SWAT but had lied to her because of the stories she told him about the problems she had with Jack Travern.
He offers to make amends by taking her on a romantic Cruise around the Caribbean...
... unbenkown to them, John Geiger is aboard the ship and he plans on robbing the ship of its cargo of Jewellery... and to add more peril, he's laced the decks of the ship with explosives...
It's up to Alex and Annie to stop the maniac and get on with their romantic break.
What an awful movie.
Speed 2 is not just cashed in, it's cheap, cheesie, full of terrible action sequences and is filled to the brim with wooden acting and badly written dialogue.
Sadly, it's just trying to live up to the superior original.
It's also easy to see why Keanu Reeves turned down an offer to return.
Which may be why it doesn't work on many other levels, there's little for the audience to care for with the rewritten characters.
The filmmakers have tried very hard to give the film an air that's recognisable, but it falls flat with the cashed in script and screenplay.
The overall exposition is pretty dull and uninteresting too. You just don't care about what's going on.
The story is also boring and much of a muchness. A guy who is threatening to detonate bombs while stealing jewellery. Yawn.
The acting is awful too.
Sandra Bullock returns as Annie... and even Bullock herself has been quoted as hating the film, wishing she'd never made it.
Willem Dafoe is also off form. He's hardly threatening, has little charisma and seem to be wondering why he's in the film.
Jason Patric is also miscast. I love Patric, he's one of my favourite actors, but here in a rewritten Keanu role, he just completely dies. He's wooden, out of his depth in the action and has very little likeability.
Temuera Morrison makes a show too... put it this way, any film with Morrison on the cast list is bound to be a Razzie winner.
Which brings me to the overall action and effects.
They're cheap, badly choreographed and the handful of computer effects are badly rendered and hold little excitement when they're used to 'enhance' the more exciting cinema.
There's not really much else I can say about Speed 2 without resaying more and more about how crap it is.
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All in all, dubbed by critics as one of the worst sequels ever made, and one of the worst films ever made too.
I'd have to agree to an extent, though I have seen worse... a couple of those worse are in my thread somewhere too.
Still though, anyone who hasn't seen the original may enjoy it a touch, just do youself a favour and miss this one anyway.
Awful movie.
My rating: 4%
All in all, dubbed by critics as one of the worst sequels ever made, and one of the worst films ever made too.
I'd have to agree to an extent, though I have seen worse... a couple of those worse are in my thread somewhere too.
Still though, anyone who hasn't seen the original may enjoy it a touch, just do youself a favour and miss this one anyway.
Awful movie.
My rating: 4%
