Speed 2: Cruise Control

Speed 2: Cruise Control is a live-action action-thriller film, with a screenplay by Randall McCormick and Jeff Nathanson, a story by Randal McCormick and Jan de Bont, and directed by de Bont. It stars Jason Patric, Willem Dafoe, and Sandra Bullock, returning from the first film. It is generally considered to be one of the worst sequels of all time and was a box office bomb. The film was critically panned, with many critics citing its poor dialogue, nonexistant characterization and action sequences that exist only to extend the runtime of the film rather than to heighten the intensity. 
==Plot==
Alex Shaw (Patric) is a SWAT team operative chasing down a truck full of stolen computer parts. He catches the driver of the vehicle, only to run into Annie Porter (Bullock), who has just failed her driving test with her instructor (Conway). Annie then chides him for not telling him he was a member of the SWAT team, as that's why she broke up with Jack (Reeves from the first film). He promises to make it up to her and takes her on an exotic cruise in the Caribbean.
Upon arriving to the ship, they run into John Geiger (Dafoe), who asks the Ashton, the bellhop (Hotz) about his golf clubs as the two of them are being shown to their room. Later on, Alex sees Annie chatting with Geiger and remarks that he seems to not particularly care about the golf game on the TV next to him for having had made an issue about where his clubs were. Later, Alex and Annie are at dinner, where Alex communicates with a deaf girl named Drew. After getting seasick, he and Annie head to their room for the night. The next morning, Alex goes skeet shooting and Annie chides him for doing so and not waking her up.
Later that evening, Geiger fakes being drunk and plants a communication device so he can hear what's going on on the deck. He then hacks into the ship's computer system and takes over, stealing the bellhop's clothes and throwing the captain overboard. He then communicates with First Officer Juliano (Temuera Morrison) that he will stop the ship for 15 minutes while they offload everyone they can before he takes over for good. While this occurs, Drew storms off from her parents because she is told that her current outfit looks bad and Alex and Annie are dancing when the ship start violently shaking. As everyone is being loaded on the lifeboats, Drew's mother makes her worries about her daughter vocal while Juliano lets slip that he was told to do this by "a guy". The final lifeboat everyone is on begins to fall off due to the weight and everyone is offloaded while Alex goes to investigate.
Alex and Juliano go to Geiger's room, only to find that Geiger rigged his room to remotely blow in an attempt to kill them. Annie and Dante, the ship's photographer, set a bunch of trapped passengers behind a fire door free by cutting a hole in the door with a chainsaw. Alex then goes to flood the ship to slow it down, but only finds out that Drew is stuck in the elevator and rescues her while it floods. Alex then chases after Geiger, who explains that this is his revenge against the cruise line for firing him after he contracted copper poisoning while working on the ship's navigation system. Geiger then traps Alex inside the ship's mall by attaching a grenade to the outside of the door. Annie and Juliano get him free, and Patric attempts to swim to the rudder to feed steel cable into it and stop it. Dafoe then foils this plan and takes Annie hostage.
Once Alex and Juliano reach the main deck again, they realize they're about to drive headfirst into an oil tanker and attempt to warn the tanker they have lost control of their navigation systems. Dante and Alex then go into the ship's bilge and use the bow thrusters to turn the ship, causing the liner to only scrape against the tanker rather than collide head-on. Everyone then realizes they're heading straightforward into a marina and they brace for impact as there's nothing left they can do. Once Dafoe gets far enough away, he gets on a seaplane with Annie, with Annie shooting some flares before they get airborne. Alex gives chase with a surprised Maurice (Plummer reprising his role from the first film) only sitting there in his boat as the same thing happens to him for a second time. 
Alex then boards the plane as it takes off, rescuing Annie and getting off the plane on one of its pontoons. Dafoe then runs right into the tanker he had intended to hit with the cruise liner, causing the crew to abandon ship. The ship then explodes as the crew makes it away in time, with Alex and Annie safely making their way back toward the marina.
==Cast==
*Sandra Bullock as Annie Porter
*Jason Patric as Alex Shaw
*Willem Dafoe as John Geiger
*Temuera Morrison as First Officer Juliano
*Brian McCardie as Merced
*Jeremy Hotz as Ashton
*Bo Svenson as Captain Pollard
*Royale Watkins as Dante
*Tamia Hill as Sheri Silver
*Kimmy Robertson as Liza
*Christine Firkins as Drew
*Lois Chiles as Celeste
*Francis Guinan as Rupert
*Michael G. Hagerty as Harvey
*Colleen Camp as Debbie
*Joe Morton as Lt. Herb 'Mac' MacMahon (uncredited)
*Tim Conway as Mr. Kenter
*Glenn Plummer as Maurice
*Patrika Darbo as Ruby Fisher
Category:20th Century Fox films
Category:THX
Category:1997 films
Category:Films starring Sandra Bullock
Category:Films starring Willem Dafoe
Category:Films distributed by 20th Century Fox
Category:Rated PG-13