Speed 2: Cruise Control
Tags: good versus evil, revenge, suspenseful, violence

Plot synopsis:
Alex Shaw is on a motorcycle chasing a vehicle with stolen goods. After he catches the driver of the vehicle, his girlfriend Annie runs into him during her driving test. She finds out that Alex is on the SWAT team after he lied and told her he was a beach officer. As an apology, Alex surprises her with a Caribbean cruise on Seabourn Legend.
Aboard the ship, passenger John Geiger hacks into the ship's computer system, and the following evening, he destroys the ship's communication systems and kills the captain. After remotely shutting down the ship's engines, Geiger calls the bridge to tell the first officer, Juliano, that the captain is dead and he is in charge. Juliano is ordered by Geiger to evacuate the ship. Geiger steals jewelry from the ship's vault. As passengers evacuate, Drew, a young deaf girl, becomes trapped in an elevator, and a group of people become trapped behind locked fire doors in a hallway filling with smoke. As Annie and Alex attempt to board the last lifeboat, Geiger programs the ship to continue sailing. The winch lowering the lifeboat jams. Alex jumps into the boat to rescue the passengers who are falling off, and Annie and Juliano use the ship's gangplank to get them back on deck.
Alex realizes Geiger is controlling the ship. Armed with skeet guns, he goes with Juliano to Geiger's cabin. Geiger remotely detonates explosives inside the room. Annie and Dante, the ship's photographer, notice the people trapped behind the fire doors, and Annie uses a chainsaw to cut the door open and let them out. Meanwhile, Alex orders the navigator, Merced, to flood the ship and slow it down by opening the ballast doors. As the ship floods, Alex sees Drew on a monitor after she climbs out of the elevator, and runs to save her. Alex notices Geiger leaving the vault and holds him at gunpoint, but he escapes by closing the fire door in front of him. Using the ship's intercom, Geiger explains that he designed the ship's autopilot system and is taking revenge against the cruise line after being fired when he got sick from copper poisoning. Geiger again escapes from Alex by attaching a grenade to a door.
The crew notice that Geiger has set the ship to crash into an oil tanker off the coast of Saint Martin. Alex decides to stop the ship by diving underneath it and jamming the propeller with a steel cable. Geiger realizes Alex is trying to stop the ship, so he jams the cable winch while Alex is underwater, causing it to break off the ship and free the cable. Geiger takes Annie hostage and escapes with her on a boat from the ship's stern.
To avoid collision with the oil tanker, Alex and Dante go into the ship's bilge and use the bow thrusters to turn it. The ship screeches down the side of the tanker, but manages to withstand the damage, and heads straight into a marina. It then crashes into a Saint Martin town and eventually stops. Alex jumps off to rescue Annie and hijacks a speed boat. Geiger takes Annie into a seaplane. Alex shoots at it from the boat with a speargun and reels himself in through the water. He climbs onto the plane and rescues Annie, and both escape from the plane on one of its floats, which falls onto the ocean. Geiger loses control of the plane and crashes into the oil tanker, causing it to explode. The tanker crew however are safe, having launched their lifeboat just in time. Annie and Alex travel back to shore in the speed boat, and he gives her an engagement ring, asking her if she will "wear it for a while", and she accepts.

Review: Unless I am completely mistaken, her character between the events of the first film and this one, turned into a complete and total airhead bimbo.Add in Jason Patric (who will never be leading man material) and it seems that only Willem Dafoe was having any fun.
So, I can understand why Keanu turned down the movie, first off not only the script was bad, but the coincidences were beyond ridiculous of Sandra Bullock being in the same position twice and Jason Patrick?!
The movie just lost it's course and didn't work on any level, if it had different characters, maybe, but these great actors should know better and check twice before signing onto these sequels.Annie is with this new policeman, Alex, and he surprises her with cruise tickets.
Speed 2: Cruise Control was just a money maker that is truly a fake movie that was really sad.
Bullock tries to repeat her sparky performance from the first film - when she manages it, it only feels like an impression, when she doesn't manage it she is cast as a shrieking beauty needing saving.
the first movie wasn't that bad, and so the other day I decided to watch speed 2, which appeared on television here.
They have to ask AGAIN and then she's all like: "oh oh oh, yeah yeah yeah yeah, sorry sorry sorry." taking another 5 minutes to apologize before she finally removes the roaring blade....another great feature about this movie is the fact that people have to die 4 times before actually dying, or other impossible things that somehow the actors can make possible with their magic wand or something.
The movie doesn't even deserve to be called 'Speed' because there was nothing about 'speed' in it, sure it had Sandra Bullock in it, but Keanu Reeves was missing in it.
There was twice as much action in the elevator scene at the beginning of Speed One!I found the gigantic tanker explosion, the ship crashing through the dock at the end TOO long and boring.
It was a solid action movie with good performances and - most importantly - lots of speed, the essence of the film.
Unfortunately, Speed 2 lacks both of these things, as well as anything else which could make it a good film.Annie (Bullock) is off on a cruise with her new boyfriend, Alex (Patric).
Where Speed screamed along at 100mph, the sequel kind of meanders along like a pensioner driver.Verdict: Bad story, bad acting, bad script, bad film.
this was one of the worst action movie I ever saw.First of all,I never heard of a guy named Jason patric and I was quiet dissapointed because Keanu Reeves was'nt there,there was'nt much action in it.This was like a titanic movie.You only see people running around,screaming like maniacs and dying on the ship that was going really fast.I give this movie a 3/10..
Sad sequel to the early 90's hit with Bullock and Patrick playing a vacationing couple who save the day when a madman (overbearing and overacting Willem Dafoe) commandeers their cruise ship.
No link exists in setting and plot, and the premises are completely different.Sandra Bullock reprises her role as the lovable Annie Porter, this time with Jason Patric playing her boyfriend.
A bald Joe Morton and Glenn Plummer have cameos, but aside from that and a few humorous references to "Speed" there is no connection.Annie and her boyfriend Alex Shaw (Jason Patric) decide to go on a Caribbean cruise aboard the luxurious Seabourn Legend and have the bad luck to be on the same vessel with John Geiger (Willem Defoe).
After seeing this and "Spider-Man," my dad wondered out loud if Defoe could go into public places without getting funny looks.The action onboard the ship is the film's best in concepts, execution and intensity.
Not just from of the content of the film, but because the film makers wasted over 100 million dollars making the film whose best aspect is that it shares the same title as the original.Speed 2 consists of a two hour sequence of a bad story, supported by a lot of shallow acting and shocking dialogue.
Sandra Bullock displays the full range of her acting ability as she did in the first film, but this time the direction and script don't come to the rescue.
From here the bad guy (Willem Defoe) starts to do his stuff and the show falls into a ramble of shodily put together events which seems to have little to do with each other or the script.At this point the director probably could have saved the film by playing off the acting skills of Willem Defoe in a head-to-head type matchup of skill and wits.
This moving movie deals with some desperate passengers threatened who are saved by Jason Patric and Sandra Bullock , based on the characters created by Graham Yost.
The daredevil L.A.P.D. cop( Jason Patric) and his love interest (Sandra Bullock) taking on an extreme terrorist (Willem Defoe) who wires a cruise that is triggered to explode and where passengers face certain death .
Here's what happens, Sandra Bullock and Jason Patric go on a cruise were madman Willem Dafoe uses crazy computer schemes to blow everything up.
People having fun on a cruise, Jason Patric going to propose to Sandra Bullock.
Sandra Bullock returns as Annie Porter, who, along with her fiancée officer Alex Shaw(Jason Patric) are on a romantic cruise liner which is (of course) hijacked by a deranged computer programmer(Willem Dafoe) out for revenge against his company, and wants to use the SeaBourn Legend as the instrument of revenge.
Idiotic plot, poor editing and direction(Jan De Bont) and a bizarrely different portrayal of Annie that is most unappealing(What went wrong between her and Jack Traven I wonder?) Jason Patric tries, but dreadful film is a sinking ship that he can't save.A total disaster..
When I saw this at the pictures, it did originally come across as an exciting film plenty of action, suspense, humour and feasible storyline.But, I have to say having seen the film a few times, Jason Patric is awful and fails miserably to step into the shoes of Keannu Reeves.
I know that it's supposed to be juxtaposition to the first Speed film but some of the scenes towards the end are like watching paint dry - the action is so slow..
But I was wrong, Speed 2: Cruise Control was not a good movie at all, in fact it was very bad.
Anyway, it's an entertaining film starring once more the gorgeous beauty/genius Sandra Bullock and Jason Patric (replacing Keanu Reeves) and as his predecessor, fills the screen with beauty and charm.See it and (try) to enjoy it ------------------ 5/10.
Hence I recently watched the universally panned "Speed 2"Plot In A Paragraph: Annie (Sandra Bullock) and her new beau Alex (Jason Patrick, who I last saw in "Lost Boys") are taking a vacation in the Caribbean aboard a luxury cruise ship, which is hijacked by a villain (Willem Defoe) who hacked into the ship's computer system.
As they are trapped aboard the ship, Annie and Alex work with the ship's first officer (The guy who plays Jango Fett in Star Wars) to try to stop the ship, which they discover is programmed to crash into an oil tanker.OK is it as bad as people say??
The film's final scene, where the ship crashes into the island of Saint Martin, cost $25 million of the film's $160 million budget (which is more than the entire production budget of the first film)As for Sandra Bullock (who agreed to star in this film in order to get financing for her pet project Hope Floats) she remains one of the most talented and beautiful women in movies, and her ladylike sexiness is in rare supply.
The first time I went on a cruise, I asked my mother what would happen if some madman tried to hijack the ship, and she said, "Oh, that's not going to happen." I thought that Annie (Sandra Bullock) and Alex (Jason Patric) looked good in the attire they wore when they were dancing with each other.
The first SPEED was bad enough, was there really a need for a sequel, and on a cruise ship, give me a freaking break.
Every time an action piece occurred it was like we were watching the entire plot for a new movie.
Sandra bullock and William and Jason patric and others played very good roles in this movie.
Sandra is annoying in this but the action scenes are good like the boat the hits the beach and stuff.
Sandra Bullock lost everything she gained from Speed, and then some...As I was watching the movie, I predicted each event and even found myself saying the lines VERBATIM before the characters did.
Mad hacker John Geiger (Dafoe) who's looked better, has hacked into the control system on this cruise ship, that just so happens to have the annoying Bullock on board with her new Beau (Patric, totally wasted) sending it on a course with death, if he doesn't get his ransom of moolah.
The sequel to "Speed" replaces lead actor Keenu Reeves with Jason Patric, who plays cop Officer Alex Shaw.
The delightfully entertaining bad guy gets what was coming to him, a bunch of stuff explodes, the world is safe again and Keanu Reeves kisses a still hot Sandra Bullock, we got on with our lives.
Speed 2 was an unnecessary sequel which plodding pace makes it hard to sit through even with tons of action on screen.Premise: A psychotic computer genius(played by Willem Dafoe) takes control of a ship(via a computer) and tries to crash it into an oil tanker miles away.
I know Sandra Bullock is a cutie, but Keanu really made the original "Speed" a top mark thriller where not only was it a original masterpiece of heroes, villains and memorable characters.
It turns out he has another ulterior motive, but you'll find you really don't care, anyway.Who else but the hero of "Speed" should just happen to be aboard (with a new and very boring boyfriend since Keanu Reeves wisely nixed this one), and is the only person who has any plans to save the ship.
From the fact that Reeves himself turned down the opportunity to star in this sequel to the pitifully awful pun in the subtitle of the film, this is just so obviously a bad idea, and one with pretty poor execution, at that.
Although Sandra, Willem and director Jan try to prevent this already waterlogged sequel from sinking to the bottom of the ocean by inserting some twists and turns, a few action sequences and some laughable dialogue, the biggest flop of this sequel is the lack of thrill with a slow-moving cruise ship rather than a fast, wired-for-explosive-destruction bomb laden city bus zooming above 50 MPH through the streets of Los Angeles and ending up at the airport.
This film is as stupid as a ship that's trying to leave port but they forgot to take the anchor off first, Keanu Reeves made the right career decision to not return for the sequel to the 1994 blockbuster hit film which by the way leads to a big problem as it's like Die Hard but without John McClane, instead we have to make do with a very boring and poor substitute lead hero Officer Alex Shaw played by Jason Patric.
It's like they turned her character into an idiot while in the original film she wasn't that stupid.The action was very campy, most of the characters are very bad with poor acting, it lacks the seriousness which the original film had and worst of all it's like the people who were making this movie had no clue what they were doing.
Whoever said changing what works is the best idea for a sequel clearly never seen Speed 2:Cruise Control.
It follows the same formula as Speed did however this time the film take places on a cruise ship.
Speed 2: Cruise Control earns its spot as one of the worst sequels of all time, right amongst such ill fated sequels including but not limited to Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987), Jaws: The Revenge (1987), Rocky V (1990), Robocop 3 (1993), Batman and Robin (1997), Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997), and A Good Day to Die Hard (2013).
Riding from the success of the 1994 action blockbuster Speed, the question on everybody's lips were: "When is there going to be a Speed 2?" The answer, the box office bomb Speed 2: Cruise Control which was a critical and commercial failure.Keanu Reeves wisely passed on the sequel which turned out to be an excellent career move.
Annie and Alex, who have been caught up in the wrong place at the wrong time, must stop Geiger from successfully executing his plan as well as save the passengers on board the ship.Unlike the fast moving action blockbuster Speed, Speed 2 is absolute nonsense that just milked from the success of Speed.
I don't blame fans of the first Speed who would rather banish Speed 2: Cruise Control from their memory and treat it like it never existed.If you want an exciting action movie, stick with the first Speed.
Speed 2: Cruise Control is a disappointing movie that sinks to the bottom of the ocean.3/10..
This is pretty understandable, because Speed 2: Cruise Control is really terrible.Here, Sandra has a new boyfriend, played by Jason Patric.
Anyway, when Sandra and Jason goes on a cruise to the Caribians to relax, a madman (Willem Dafoe) takes control of the ship.
Sandra Bullock is very annoying, Jason Patrick is way to dull to carry the film, and Willem Dafoe doesn´t do a good job either.
that he sucks when it comes to writing good scripts.Speed 2: Cruise Control, is one of those films which I will never watch again in my entire life.* out of *****.
While I do say that this is an extremely unnecessary sequel and that it does take quite a while to get moving, when the action starts there's enough all-out carnage and disaster sequences to keep it entertaining enough to watch, despite the lame story.As a sequel, Speed 2: Cruise Control's link to its predecessor is tenuous at best.
As to where the first film involved a bus, this one's a cruise, and a big one at that.The movie begins with Annie Porter (Sandra Bullock) and Alex Shaw (Jason Patric) heading on a cruise for a vacation of sun and fun.
One of the MANY things that made the original work so well is terrific action, good characters and a great bad guy.
The direction his films are taking in terms of quality is all too clear -- but maybe he can pull himself out of this headlong descent into catastrophe.On the other hand, Sandra Bullock is just fine in SPEED 2, even if her character is very badly written.
Like all sequels comparisons will be made to the original but the only link to 'Speed' is Sandra Bullock.
Bullock is now dating Jason Patric (after she dumped Keanu Reeves) and he takes her onto a cruise ship - hoping to propose to her.
I didn't find the action scenes as exciting as the first, but it was ok.I think Sandra Bullock acted what she could, and she made it better then it would have been without her.
I think that Speed 2: Cruise Control is an excellent sequel which is always exciting!
If you like the cast mentioned above and want to see Willem Dafoe in a great performance then I strongly recommend that you watch or even buy Speed 2: Cuise Control today!.
Speed 2: Cruise Control was not that bad, but i did like the first Speed movie better.
Speed 2 was set on a Cruise Ship, Keanu Reeves didn't star in this movie but Sandra Bullock did starr in this one.
If you want to watch a great film to just plain escape for a few hours from the world's reality and not be critical of the film and its plot, then just sit back and enjoy: Sandra Bullock(Annie Porter) "The Net" and her boyfriend Jason Patric(Officer Alex Shaw) "3 Days of Rain" '02 run around a ship trying to capture Willem DaFoe(John Geiger) "Once Upon a Time in Mexico" '03.
Shortly after the couple gets on board, Geiger takes over the ship and sets it on a course for disaster.The film's biggest mistake was doing casting Jason Patric as Alex.
One thing I didn't like is that he used slow-motion too much, and in some scenes he has a tendency to move the camera a lot."Speed 2" is not as good as the first movie, but it's still fun!.
Speed 2: cruise control is not a bad movie at all.
This time Sandra Bullock and LAPD Swat specialist Jason Patric are on a cruise which has been overtaken by a disgruntled ex-employee of the liner (Willem Dafoe).
But the damage was done when they decided to set the movie on a cruise ship which was such a bad idea, especially when the title of the movie is called 'Speed'.To be honest, the movie wouldn't have got so much negativity if it wasn't a sequel of 'Speed' and i probably would give it a higher rating in that case, but i believe the negativity is justified because the prequel was so thrilling, had great action scenes and had a intriguing plot, whereas this movie was the complete opposite.
Speed was a great action movie.Speed 2: Cruise Control was a crazy mess that never recovered from Keanu Reeves passing up on the sequel.Sandra Bullock does appear but she has had a personality transfer from the first film.
The silly dialogue - especially from Sandra Bullock's character Annie even during action sequences - is so bad it is laughable.
If there was ever an action movie that didn't warrant a sequel, it's Speed.