Speed 2: Cruise Control 1997 ★★

Rewatched Jun 17, 2012

Perfect Father's Day viewing. Especially when your father has a fucking abysmal taste in action movies at times. 1997 gave us this and Batman & Robin. Personally, I want to find where 1997 lives, beat down his door and kick him square in the nuts. Sandra Bullock is NOT an actress of any worth (prove me wrong), Jason Patrick is NO Keanu Reeves (and that's not saying much) and Willem Defoe is in practice for his hammy Green Goblin role. To top it off, the score is bollocks and the central premise is worse. One of the laziest, shit'est sequels in the history of cinema. That said, it looks pretty nice and it killed 2 hours of my hung-over Sunday. I recommend you find the Father Ted episode, Speed 3. It's infinitely better.

2 Comments

  • Caught the middle of this on TV, it is truly dire. As you pointed out the score is bloody terrible, it is overbearing, repetitive and annoying. Not that it would of saved this clusterfuck of a film if it had been any better, but why swamp it such banal music? Sickos.

  • Absolute classic. Going to have to dig that out and watch it tomorrow. Just brilliant.

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