Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)

A computer hacker breaks into the computer system of the Seabourn Legend cruise liner and sets it speeding on a collision course into a gigantic oil tanker.

Director:

Jan de Bont

Writers:

Graham Yost (characters), Jan de Bont (story),

Stars:

Sandra Bullock, Jason Patric, Willem Dafoe

1 win & 7 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Sandra Bullock	...	Annie
Jason Patric	...	Officer Alex Shaw
Willem Dafoe	...	John Geiger
Temuera Morrison	...	Juliano
Brian McCardie	...	Merced
Christine Firkins	...	Drew
Mike Hagerty	...	Harvey (as Michael G. Hagerty)
Colleen Camp	...	Debbie
Lois Chiles	...	Celeste
Francis Guinan	...	Rupert
Tamia	...	Sheri Silver
Jeremy Hotz	...	Ashton
Enrique Murciano	...	Alejandro (as Enrique Murciano Jr.)
Jessica Diz	...	Isabel
Connie Ray	...	Fran Fisher

Storyline

Annie and her policeman boyfriend Alex decide to take a romantic ocean cruise together. Once at sea, however, one of the passengers, a disgruntled computer genius named Giger, disables the ship. Alex must now foil Giger's plans and bring everyone back safely to shore, but how can he outwit a man who can control the entire ship from his keyboard?

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Plot Keywords:

computer | cruise | diamond | revenge | police | 

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Taglines:

Rush hour hits the water.

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Romance | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for frenetic disaster action and violence

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English American Sign Language Portuguese

Release Date:

13 June 1997 (USA)

Also Known As:

Speed: Cruise Control

Filming Locations:

Bahamas

Box Office

Budget:

$160,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$16,158,942 (USA) (13 June 1997)

Gross:

$48,068,396 (USA) (5 September 1997)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Blue Tulip Productions, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Technical Specs

Runtime:

121 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

In a 2000 interview, Sandra Bullock jokingly referred to this movie as "the biggest piece of crap ever made."

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Goofs

Just before first mate Juliano is injured by the flying cable winch, it is possible to see the theatrical blood already applied to his arm

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Quotes

Alex Shaw: [referring to the flooding of the ballast room] How much longer?
Merced: Look, I've never let a million gallons of water into a ship before. Gimme a second.

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Crazy Credits

The 20th Century Fox logo fades into the ocean as the opening credits start to roll.

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Connections

References Speed (1994)

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Soundtracks

"The Tide Is High"
Written by J. Holt
Performed by Maxi Priest
Produced by Sly Dunbar & Robbie Shakespeare
Maxi Priest appears courtesy of Virgin Records America, Inc.

User Reviews

Everyone to the lifeboats! Women, children and paying moviegoers first.

Let the screenwriters and director go down with the ship I say. As the sun sets slowly in the West, Speed 2: Cruise Control sinks without a trace. The sequel to 1995's surprise drive-a-bus hit has barely caused a ripple at the box office. The threadbare script is mostly to blame. It consists almost entirely of simplistic, exclamation-point dialogue like, "We're gonna crash!" "We're going too fast!" "Do something!" "This isn't happening!" "We gotta get him outta here!" "There's not much time left!" and the ever useful, "Oh, s**t!"

There is, indeed, not much time left for characterization or interpersonal drama. Speed 2 gets off to a winky-dinky start with Sandra Bullock taking yet another disastrous driving test. Bullock's natural charm can go only so far, however, and you keep wanting to throw her a life preserver or a new script. As people drop dead around her, she must continue to whine about the ruination of her vacation. Bullock doesn't get a lot of help from blandish co-star Jason Patric, who plays her cop boyfriend. The nasty, computer-literate villain, who likes to attach blood-sucking leeches to his body, is certainly quirky. Willem Dafoe, who's pretty quirky himself, does what he can with the overriding vagaries of his character's mad-bomber motivation. The action bits are fairly frequent, but seem anemic when compared to what else is available to fans of such. Director Jan De Bont fared much better in 1996 with the flying cows and funnel clouds of Twister. Speed 2 ends up with some highly anticipated destruction as the cruise ship plows into the island of St. Martin. No matter, as I hear the whole thing was computer-generated anyway. This cruise is no carnival, and could have used a cameo by Kathie Lee. Would loved to have seen Dafoe slap her around a bit.