Amazon.com video review:
Anybody seen Keanu? The action star of Speed opted out of
this overbearing sequel, which finds costar Sandra Bullock in love
with another guy (Jason Patric) and in trouble aboard a cruise ship
under the control of a mad extortionist (Willem Dafoe). Speed
director Jan de Bont is back at the helm for part 2, but even he seems
to have forgotten that what made the first film work was the
simplicity of its hook (the bomb, the bus that can't drive below 50
mph, the handful of sympathetic passengers, etc.). Speed 2 is
all about hugeness: big ship, lots of places to get into trouble, and
so on. Even with an eye-popping, endless finale of the vessel
crashing into port (and causing mondo destruction), there is nothing
about this movie that is remotely as involving as its
predecessor. --Tom Keogh
Amazon.com video review:
Anybody seen Keanu? The action star of Speed opted out
of this overbearing sequel, which finds costar Sandra Bullock in love with
another guy (Jason Patric) and in trouble aboard a cruise ship under
the control of
a mad extortionist (Willem Dafoe). Speed director Jan de Bont
is back at the helm for part 2, but even he seems to have forgotten
that what made the first film work was the simplicity of its hook
(the bomb, the bus that can't
drive below 50 mph, the handful of sympathetic passengers, etc.).
Speed 2 is
all about hugeness: big ship, lots of places to get into trouble, and so on.
Even with an eye-popping, endless finale of the vessel crashing into port (and
causing mondo destruction), there is nothing about this movie that is remotely
as involving as its predecessor. --Tom Keogh
