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Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: After the grazing collision of the two ships, the Eindhoven Lion still has no engine power and the Seabourn Legend still cannot steer; yet in the next shot showing both ships, they are pointing different ways.
  
  
• Continuity: Before the collision with the Eindhoven Lion, The Seabourn Legend sails towards the Coast, but right after the collision with The Eindhoven Lion, The Seabourn Legend turns 90 degrees and it's facing towards open sea. But later, the ship is still sailing towards the coast.
  
  
• Factual errors: The Seabourn Legend is still under power while colliding with boats having a tiny fraction of its mass. Its speed should not be reduced by anything like the amount shown.
  
  

• Continuity: After appearing barefoot and taking off his white shirt, Alex appears in the next scene wearing a black shirt and black sneakers.
  
  
• Continuity: The final resting angle of the ship is steeper in interior than in exterior shots.
  
  
• Factual errors: While crashing into the dock, the ship decelerates from 6 knots to 5 knots in about 20 seconds. This is apparently enough to throw people forward through the ship's windows, yet in reality this deceleration force would barely be noticeable.
  
  
• Continuity: The starboard bow thruster is used to turn the ship. That would turn it to port, whereas it turns to starboard.
  
  
• Factual errors: No ship has ever been - or ever will be built without having emergency fuel shutoff devices that can be manually operated.
  
  
• Factual errors: You cannot walk into a ballast tank from the accommodation areas. The tanks are not painted white on the inside, and electric lights are not installed in ballast tanks. And finally, when filling ballast tanks, it is done through a pipe and a pump, not by opening gigantic doors in the ship's hull.
  
  
• Factual errors: When the Seaborn Legend is plowing down the ships in the harbor, its anchor strikes a small sail boat in the side, this wouldn't cause the sail boat to blow up like it did.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: A motorboat pulling a water-skier hits a ramp and lands in a store. In the shot of the boat flying overhead, its motor isn't turning.
  
  
• Continuity: Annie goes to the bathroom to change into a swimsuit. Just after Alex opens the case the ring is in, Annie is in the background with her sarong wrapped around her and already tied up. In the next shot, she can be seen in the mirror just beginning to put the sarong around her.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Reflected in the glass in the mall.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Reflected in Tuneman's sunglasses during the speed boat/airplane chase.
  
  
• Factual errors: Bow thrusters are primarily used to maneuver a ship away from a dock. Run for several minutes, they could typically rotate a ship by a few degrees. There is no way they could perform the violent turn to avoid the supertanker in the film. Also, bow thruster tubes normally have operable doors on either side to cover the propellers while the ship is moving. This protects the bow thrusters which can be broken if exposed while the ship is traveling at high speed.
  
  
• Factual errors: Ship's high-skew propellers rotate to the wrong direction on all shots they've shown.
  
  
• Factual errors: Autopilot is set to steer to a destination lat.203/lon.182 - there isn't any such place on earth - or on any other planet for that matter.
  
  
• Continuity: The leaches bite marks appear and disappear seconds later on our terrorist's first night onboard.
  
  
• Factual errors: When the Staff Captain signals the 7 short and one long blast on the bridge, this is called the "General Alarm". Passengers proceed to their lifeboat stations and attendance is taken. Only on a single continuous sounding of the ship's alarm bells and whistles followed by an order to abandon shop would lifeboats be launched.
  
  
• Factual errors: The inflatable life rafts in large white capsules are not generally pushed overboard and inflated in the water. They are suspended at the lifeboat embarkation deck, inflated, loaded and lowered to water level.
  
  
• Continuity: When the deaf girl enters the elevator, there is nearly 8 mintes on the timer until the engine room shutdown. Then, nearly 2 minutes after the explosion, the elevator stops. The likelyhood that anyone would be in an elevator on a ship this size for 10 consecutive minutes is unrealistic.
  
  
• Factual errors: In several scenes, many passengers are stuck behind "fire screen doors" and unable to get out. These doors open like any normal doors with the recessed handle built right into them. You can see this handle when the chainsaw is used. Even if the passengers were somehow stuck behind water-tight doors, those can always be opened via a manual crank.
  
  
• Factual errors: The ship's propellers are shown rotating far too quickly. On a ship that size, they might rotate as much as 1-2 revolutions per second at full speed.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the film, the propeller is stopped when the end of a rope is lowered into it. A rope could provide nowhere near enough resistance; a ship's propeller could even cut through a 12-inch steel cable.
  
  
• Factual errors: The supertanker is sitting incredibly high in the water, revealing that it is not carrying any cargo, meaning that it would not blow up.
  
  
• Continuity: Early in the movie, when the SWAT officer (male lead) is chasing a delivery van by motorcycle, the rear door of the van flies open and boxes fall onto the road, making the officer swerve repeatedly to avoid a crash. At one point, the van is clearly empty of all remaining boxes, but in the next shot, more are stacked and about to fall out.
  
  
• Continuity: A few minutes before the ship hits the Eindhoven Lion the captain of the Eindhoven Lion looks through his binoculars towards the Seabourn Legend. Smoke can be seen coming out of the port (left) chimney, however that engine was offline so smoke should have come out of the starboard (right) chimney.
  
  

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