Speed 2: Cruise
Control (1997)
action thriller
directed
by : Jan De Bont
featuring
: Sandra Bullock - Jason Patric - Willem Dafoe - Temuera Morrison - Brian
McCardie
running
time : 2 hours 5 minutes
Indications were that this action sequel
was in trouble before production began, when the male lead from the first
film, Keanu Reeves, declined a role in the follow-up. Sandra Bullock returns
as Annie Porter, an accident prone ditz who is thrilled when her boyfriend
Alex (Jason Patric) presents her with two tickets for a cruise ship vacation
to the Bahamas. The trip is a peace offering presented because Annie has
just learned that Alex is a police officer who's been lying to her about
his choice of profession. Little does the happy couple know that the disgruntled
John Geiger (Willem Dafoe), designer of the ship's computer system, has
plotted a violent takeover of the vessel and a diamond hijacking that puts
everyone on board in mortal danger. Being the dashing police officer he
is, Alex leaps into action and tries to stop Geiger, but not before the
ship crashes at top velocity into a Caribbean port town. Sandra Bullock
agreed to star in this flop of a sequel in order to get financial backing
for a pet project, Hope Floats (1998), a low-budget drama that turned a
healthy profit.