Rating: 
Summary: Better than Speed
Review: Saw this movie on a flight from San Francisco to Amsterdam in Fall 97 and for the two hours it lasted i forgot about sitting in coach class entirely. Funny dialogue, action rich and very exciting 'til the end.
Rating: 
Summary: Bad sequel, awful waste of time, bad acting
Review: "Speed 2" seemingly has absolutely nothing to do with the first, superior "Speed," by having only Sandra Bullock and her new LAPD/SWAT boyfriend (not Keanu Reeves) go on a cruise ship and have it technically hijacked by sick madman Willem Dafoe, in one of his worst roles EVER.Futhermore, Jan De Bont further ruins the movie by adding unnecessary details like the large cruise ship, eccentric passengers, desperate crew, and by making it louder than necessary, while "Speed" has a simple plot and a electrically charged screenplay to work with. In other words, the movie is loud, totally unnecessary, acting is loud and overstated, and is totally bad. The only reason I give it two stars is because Bullock manages through this turgid mess with a straight face and her hilarious lines make this a bearable action "thriller." Rated PG-13 for violence and profanity.
Rating: 
Summary: did anyone read the script?
Review: I guess no one read the script thouroughly before jumping feet first with the kitchen sink into the vast mess of this horrible sequel. The only satisfying note I want to add is Keanu Reeves is a genius...he didnt star in this one, thank god. Good for you Keanu..good for you dude. This one has Sandra Bullock (Speed, Murder 8y Numbers) now, without a Keanu Reeves and now with a Jason Patric (Narc, The Lost Boys) only reason he didnt tell her he was working for ironically for the people Keanu was working for. So this pisses her off, he surprises her with a cruise ship....they have a good time but the only thing is they got on the wrong boat at the wrong time see there's this terroist, Willem Dafoe (Spider-Man, Wild At Heart) and he has taking hold of the boat. Now he wants demands and stuff otherwise he blows it up. Patric then thinks he can try to stop Dafoe. Are we sensing a familiar sense? Long, dreadful sequel to the already better original. Jan DeBont must of been smoking the wrong stuff when he came up with this one. Even some interesting but washed away action scenes dont even cut the bill. Also starring Joe Morton (Speed, Executive Decision), Tim Conway, Temuera Morrison (Six Days, Seven Nights, The Island Of Dr. Moreau 96'), Collen Camp (Die Hard With A Vengance, Clue) and Glenn Plummer (Speed, The Salton Sea). what a waste, huh?
Rating: 
Summary: Lacking Keanu, but not that bad
Review: It's still as fast paced as the original, and just when you think it's gonna finish, they run into more problems. It's exactly the same as the original, just without Keanu. Why didn't he come back for this? Because he went on tour with his oh-so-brilliant band Dogstar. In the end, I bet he was glad, after the slating this received.
From the original, Sandra Bullock, Joe Morton & Glenn Plummer come back for more. They're joined by Jason Patric (all chest hair and muscles - ugh!), Willem Dafoe, one of the most evil looking guys around, and lots of passengers, including a little deaf girl, who instantly develops a crush on Jason Patric's character, Alex. Not many of the characters in this make you feel any sympathy for them, and hardly any of them are familiar from other roles. Unless you count Michael G. Hagerty, who, for anyone who's a die-hard fan of Friends, will recognise him as Mr. Treeger!
A total of 3 different ships were used in this film: Seaborn Legend (actual cruise liner; used for most exterior shots of the ship) "Bridge Ship" (Sturgeon Atlanic frighter ship built with a false hull and bridge; used for bridge scenes and the boat crashes in the marina) "Rail Ship" (false hull built on an underwater rail; used for the island crash finale scene). All other shots of the ship were complete computer graphic effects.
There's another reason why I like this movie, and it's because it has the little deaf girl in it, played by Christine Firkins, who hasn't done anything but this and two episodes of the X-Files. She's deaf for real, not just in the movie, which I was surprised to find out, and it's a great accomplishment for her. She uses a lot of sign language, a language which I would LOVE to learn, but unfortunately, I have no one to practice on, therefore have no reason to try and pick it up.
Annie & Alex (how original) decide to go on holiday together, which is a big step for both of them, considering Annie has bad taste in men, and they've only reached 7 months together. Wow! A couple of actors that have absolutely no chemistry between them. Boy oh boy, bring back Keanu! Jason lacks charisma and is totally unconvincing. And you don't propose to someone who doesn't like you doing the job you do, and you have zip chemistry with.
To think that Willem later went on to become the bad guy in the second Spiderman movie. Wait, first. Yeah first. His role as a villian in this is one big joke and he never comes across as threatening as Dennis Hopper did in the original. And to boot, he has a lousy reason to blow up the boat. Dennis Hopper, now he had a reason. To use a similar reason the second time round was just someone not thinking properly.
The little deaf girl should have got loads more screen time, Jason should have drowned, and Sandra should have saved the day. But nothing could have saved this film. It's watchable. That's about it. The original was better. Now bring back Keanu for Speed 3 please!
Rating:
Summary: Speed 2 needs to slow down!
Review: The original Speed was a different kind of movie (Who would have thought a movie that took place mainly on a bus would be so good?) that for one reason or another MANY people enjoyed. Speed 2 seems to be one of those "We liked the first one so we want a sequel!" Kind of movies, and it turned out to be pretty bad. Speed 2 actually makes a Disney sequel look GOOD. The movie centers around our heroine Annie (her role reprised by Sandra Bullock) who is taking a driving test in the beginning of the movie to get her license back for (gasp!) speeding! She has just gotten herself out of a relationship with Jack (Who was in the first one) and is now with Alex (Jason Patric). When she finds out that Alex works for the same squad that Jack works for she isn't too happy with that. Later Alex decides to take Annie on a cruise and when they do things start off fine and dandy until a mad bomber (William Dafoe) by the name of Geiger takes over the cruise ship trapping a few passengers on board. Let's put this one thing aside, Keanu Reeves didn't show up in this film. Surprisingly enough this one thing is what starts the film slide into ruin. Jason Patric and Sandra Bullock don't really have a whole lot of chemistry. It isn't as well developed as it was in the first Speed movie. I'm sure that even if Keanu Reeves had appeared in this movie it wouldn't have saved it from becoming a mess anyhow. William Dafoe doesn't make for the greatest villian either (who would've thought that five years later he'd be the Green Goblin in the blockbuster hit: Spider Man?). He has the potential to be a great mad bomber but somehow he misses what the bomber in the first movie had. That would be his lack of remorse and intelligence. Speed 2 doesn't keep on the edge of your seat like the first movie did. Speed 2 is like a Disney Sequel, not good enough for the theater. Speed 2 I can honestly say was a bad movie. An under developed plot put along with some pretty under developed characters make this movie seem like garbage. I don't recommend this movie to anyone who liked the first one. Those who enjoyed the first movie probably won't like this one.
Rating:
Summary: Worst movie ever!!
Review: Please do yourself a favor and stay far away from this movie. I won't go into all the details, but the writing is terrible, the acting is worse, and most of the stunts and action sequences are unbelievable. I think I lost brain cells thanks to this film.
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