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An ear-splitting amusement-park attraction posing as a movie.
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News
Speed 2: Cruise Control
Rush hour hits the water.
1997 · 2h 5m · PG-13
Action, Thriller
Directed by
Jan de Bont
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Speed 2: Cruise Control
Overview
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.
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Speed 2 is frantic action, tinny dialogue, perfunctory characterization and tried-and-false plot pilferings.
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
Rotten
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 filmmaker on automatic pilot.
Desmond Ryan, Philadelphia Inquirer
Rotten
[A] truly horrid sequel.
Keith Simanton, Seattle Times
Rotten
Speed cost something like $30 million; this sequel cost four times as much. So why is it such a feeble, aimless piece of junk in comparison?
Stephen Thompson, AV Club
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