Speed 2: Cruise Control

"Rush hour hits the water."

1997 2h 5m EN

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★4.6TMDB · 1,880🥫4%Rotten Tomatoes●24Metacritic★4IMDB · 88,751

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Synopsis

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A disgruntled former employee hijacks the Seabourn Legend cruise liner. Set on a fixed course, without any means of communication and at the mercy of the hijacker, it's up to the one cop on vacation and his soon to be fiancé (hopefully) Annie to regain control of it before it kills the passengers and causes an environmental disaster. Insurmountable and daunting tasks await them on their perilous journey throughout the ship trying to fend off the hijacker and save the passengers.

“Rush hour hits the water.”

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Cast

Jason Patric
Alex
Sandra Bullock
Annie
Willem Dafoe
Geiger
Temuera Morrison
Juliano
Brian McCardie
Merced
Glenn Plummer
Maurice
Colleen Camp
Debbie
Lois Chiles
Celeste

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Jan de Bont
Writers: Jeff Nathanson, Jan de Bont, Randall McCormick
Languages: English, Portuguese
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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$160M budget — tentpole studio territory.

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2 / 8

ERA

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29 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Portuguese.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Speed Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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5 / 8

CAST

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254+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Jan de Bont, shot by Jack N. Green. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Mark Mancina. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Alan Cody shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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The take

Jan de Bont directs. Jack N. Green behind the camera. Mark Mancina scores. Alan Cody cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, Portuguese.

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1$160M budget — tentpole studio territory.
229 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Portuguese.
4Part of the "Speed Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5254+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
6Directed by Jan de Bont, shot by Jack N. Green. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Original score by Mark Mancina. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
8Editor Alan Cody shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
9Jason Patric and Sandra Bullock and Willem Dafoe carry the top of the cast.
10Marketing tagline: "Rush hour hits the water.".
11IMDB entry: tt0120179 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
12Classified under 14 themes, including "computer", "diamond", "boat", "cruise".

The technical file

Cinematography: Jack N. Green
Original score: Mark Mancina
Editing: Alan Cody
Production design: Bill Kenney
Costume design: Louise Frogley
Makeup / hair: Kim Santantonio
VFX supervisor: Bert Terreri
Sound: Gregg Landaker
Stunt coordinator: Dick Ziker
Runtime: 125 min · 2h 5m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $160,000,000
Box office: $164,508,066
Return: 103% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)
Rotten Tomatoes: 4% 🥫 Rotten
Metacritic: 24/100
IMDB rating: 4/10 · 88,751 votes
MPAA: PG-13

Awards

1 win & 9 nominations total

Part of

Speed Collection

Speed is a 1994 American action-thriller film directed by Jan de Bont. LAPD officer Jack Traven becomes the focus of a bomber and extortionist, retired Atlanta bomb squad sergeant Howard Payne. The film takes place in Los Angeles in 1993. In 1997, a sequel, Speed 2: Cruise Control, was released. Sandra Bullock agreed to star again as Annie, for financial backing for another project, but Keanu Reeves declined the offer to return as Jack. As a result, Jason Patric was written into the story as Alex Shaw, Annie's new boyfriend, with her and Jack having broken up due to her worry about Jack's dangerous lifestyle. Willem Dafoe starred as the villain John Geiger, and Glenn Plummer (who played Reeves' carjacking victim) also cameos as a boat driver. The film is considered one of the worst sequels of all time.

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CinemaSerf2022-04-13
★ 4/10
Keanu Reeves presumably had better things to do than star in this really far-fetched sequel. Sandra Bullock, however, reprises her role as "Annie", this time dating hunky cop "Alex" (Jason Patric). She isn't best pleased when she discovers his career is only marginally less dangerous than her ex (Reeves), so he decides to placate her by going on a luxury cruise. Unfortunately, it's the self same cruise that the belligerent "Geiger" (Willem Dafoe) has decided to wreck as he has quite some grudge with the shipping company. With relative ease, he manages to hijack the controls of the liner and set it on a collision course with a fully laden oil tanker. Can "Alex" and "Annie" thwart this dastardly plan? The story is just preposterous, and the acting talents of Patric would comfortably fit in an already full ashtray. Dafoe offers a reasonable degree of mania with his performance, but Bullock - except for quite a fun scene taking her driving test - takes very much a back seat during most of this rather fanciful yarn. The ending is actually quite exciting for a few moments but ends in a fashion that seems to elicit joy from a solution that I found quite hard to celebrate. Entirely forgettable from start to finish, this, I'm afraid.

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