[43] Although he did not like the script, Brian McCardie accepted the role as Merced as his agents assured him it would be good for his career. [16] Die Hard director John McTiernan claimed in 2001 that "the studio used most of the material we'd developed" for a potential Die Hard sequel and turned it into Speed 2, including "the ocean liner going on the beach. Visit www.CRUISE2.com. He also had an idea for a story about a plane that has to fly through the Andes mountains, but cannot ascend above 10,000 feet (3,000 m). Full Review. [58], Seabourn Legend was rented for six weeks at a reported cost of $38,000 per day;[13] the ship served as the film's primary setting and provided accommodation for the cast and crew. [95] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "B-" on scale of A to F.[96], Time magazine stated that Patric's character was "fundamentally uninteresting", but blamed De Bont and the screenwriters for "not providing their actors with stuff to act. Let our editors help you find what's trending and what's worth your time. Batman and Robin try to keep their relationship together even as they must stop Mr. "[77], To complement the film's Caribbean setting, the soundtrack consists of mostly reggae music. The score was recorded by a 96-person orchestra, including Mancina, who performed on a classical guitar on several cues. "[108] Since his original review, Ebert claimed that he enjoyed Speed 2 more than Bullock,[109][110][111] and wrote an article in 2013 that his favorable review of the film "inspired more disbelief" than any other he had written and was frequently cited as an example of him being a poor film critic. [118] The release date was rescheduled twice—originally set for July 2 and pushed up to June 6 to avoid competition with Men in Black and Titanic (which was then scheduled for July), then moved back one week to avoid competition with Con Air. [14] Neither Yost nor Speed producer Mark Gordon were asked to participate in the sequel, although Yost received a "characters created by" credit and Gordon was credited as executive producer for Speed 2. It is the sequel to Speed (1994) and stars Jason Patric, Willem Dafoe, and Sandra Bullock (who reprises her role from the original). It's a small twist, I grant you, but a decisive one. The final scene, in which the ship crashes into the island of Saint Martin, cost almost a quarter of the budget, and set records as the largest and most expensive stunt ever filmed. The first episode in the series premiered on ITV in 2003.. She wants to break up with but he surprises her with a cruise. [73], Specific action cues were scored on the piano down to each second of film. Need some help finding the best things to watch on Netflix? Annie and Dante, the ship's photographer, notice the people trapped behind the fire doors, and Annie uses a chainsaw to cut the door open and let them out. [119][120], During its opening weekend, Speed 2 was shown on 2,615 screens and grossed $16.2 million. "[69], Composer Mark Mancina wrote the film score for Speed 2 having previously composed the scores for Speed and Twister. [104] Patric also admitted "it wasn't a good movie" and said that its lack of success was due to de Bont's direction, while praising Bullock and the rest of the film's crew. After discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas is going to impact Earth in less than a month, NASA recruits a misfit team of deep-core drillers to save the planet. Set in the 1980s, a young Italian-American from the "wrong side of the tracks" falls for a Jewish girl from Long Island. [18] He started location scouting in the Caribbean in May 1996, and chose Saint Martin as the primary filming location because he felt it was least likely to be subjected to a hurricane. All of these pleasures, and more, are in "Speed 2: Cruise Control,'' which is a sequel to "Speed" in name only--since even the basic premise is different. De Bont wanted 16 steel drum players, but due to a lack of available players, Mancina used eight drums which were double-tracked. A retired master car thief must come back to the industry and steal fifty cars with his crew in one night to save his brother's life. [4][27] After accepting the role, Patric stated that he never saw Speed or had any intentions of seeing it;[24] Reeves said he was looking forward to seeing Patric star in the sequel. [30], Gary Oldman turned down the role of the villain, Geiger, to star as another villain in Air Force One (1997). "[127] The Simpsons episode "Bye Bye Nerdie" (2001) features a scene on a racing school bus where character Milhouse Van Houten says "It's like Speed 2, only with a bus instead of a boat! Now I liked Sandra Bullock in the original Speed. [129], This article is about the film. [21] While Speed was produced for $30 million,[22] the sequel was green-lit at "just under $100 million" due to the larger production and higher cast salaries. The website's consensus reads: "Speed 2 falls far short of its predecessor, thanks to laughable dialogue, thin characterization, unsurprisingly familiar plot devices, and action sequences that fail to generate any excitement. [112], Speed 2 was listed on About.com's Top 9 Cruise Ship or Ocean Liner Movies, and said it had "good shots of the ship and a spectacular ending", but also described the plot as "lame. A $5 million, 35-building set was constructed in Marigot, Saint Martin based on the town's local architecture, which temporarily housed production offices. Empire Magazine's Andrew Collins gave the film 3/5 stars, while commenting "...top-billed Sandra Bullock, formerly an accidental heroine, is insultingly sidelined here to boyfriend's little helper and hostage-in-waiting. [30], Many actors were considered to replace Reeves including: Simon Baker Denny,[31] Jon Bon Jovi,[32] Patrick Muldoon,[33] Johnathon Schaech,[34] Christian Slater,[35] and Billy Zane. Mark Mancina wrote a techno track for the soundtrack based on his film score,[72] titled "Speed TK Re-mix", performed by Japanese musician Tetsuya "TK" Komuro. In this one, if the ocean liner doesn't stop, everyone will get killed. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. movie poster image for Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997). Annie Porter, the woman who was held on a bus with a bomb attached to it that will go off if it slows down. Check out the official Jungle Cruise trailer starring Dwayne Johnson! Aboard the ship, deranged passenger John Geiger, a former cyber employee of the cruise company, hacks into the ship's computer system, and the following evening, he destroys the ship's communication systems and kills Captain Pollard. He began by creating themes and melodies, then worked them into the film where he felt they would fit. He passed on Speed 2 in order to star in the horror film The Devil's Advocate (1997), which was filmed at the same time, then subsequently toured with his band, Dogstar. "[72], Over 100 minutes of score are present in Speed 2, more than Mancina wrote for Speed and Twister combined. [72] The score was not officially released until June 2010, when it was sold by La-La Land Records as a 3000-unit limited edition album. [15] Randall McCormick was hired to write the sequel in 1994 and received a story credit along with De Bont. First, the good news: Unlike most action film sequels, Speed 2: Cruise Control is not a mere retread of the original. Since beginning his career with the teen sex comedy Risky Business and soon solidifying his status as a bonafide blockbuster movie star with 1986’s original Top Gun, Tom Cruise has been one of Hollywood’s more reliable hitmakers. I even liked her in that film where she went into a beauty pageant. Alex tries to stop him. When the winch lowering the lifeboat jams, Alex jumps into the boat to rescue the passengers, and Annie and Juliano use the ship's gangplank to get them back on deck. He's Geiger, a computer man who designed the ship's systems, who was fired. [60] Of all the stunt-related incidents during production, De Bont said the most frightening was when a stunt woman was hit in the face by a boat cable and required reconstructive surgery. 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Navy SEALs with scuba gear were present inside the tank during shooting, as the actors had to hold their breath during the scene. De Bont was skeptical of featuring a relatively unknown actor such as Patric, but was reminded by the studio that Bullock and Reeves were also relatively unknown prior to Speed,[37] and chose Patric based on his role in Sleepers (1996). Alex shoots at it from the boat with a speargun and reels himself in through the water. An extended scene was added showing Alex walking through a crashed house and through St. Martin after jumping off the ship. The finale scene was filmed in the town of Marigot, Saint Martin. "[117], Speed 2: Cruise Control premiered at the Cineplex Odeon in Century City, Los Angeles on June 9, 1997, and was released into theaters on June 13. Armed with skeet guns, he goes with Juliano to Geiger's cabin. Clive and Ruth have moved but Dave and Cath and Rob and Leone are taking part in a treasure hunt, organized by the enthusiastic Laurence and invite the visiting Daniel - who is surprised to find Chloe pregnant, not necessarily by him - to join them. [79] Brazilian reggae musician Carlinhos Brown was also chosen to be featured as a performer on the ship because De Bont wanted music that was "lively" and felt that Brown's music was "full of energy. The film was also a box-office bomb, earning $164 million worldwide against a production budget as high as $160 million. [50][63], The underwater scene where Alex swims underneath the ship was filmed in the Tongue of the Ocean off the coast of New Providence in the Bahamas. "[17] Prior to production, details about the film were kept secret, and De Bont refused to confirm rumors about the film taking place on a ship,[18] although he did state that the sequel would be "funnier",[19] while Speed 2 star Jason Patric said the sequel is a "very complex movie" and would have "bigger sequences. [4][5] Even though their contracts did not obligate them to do so, Fox expected Reeves and Bullock to reprise their roles,[11] and envisioned the follow-up film with Reeves and Bullock's characters as a married couple. De Bont had the idea for the film after he had a recurring nightmare about a cruise ship crashing into an island. [122], The film grossed $48 million in the United States, and had a total gross of $164.5 million worldwide. "[20], Speed 2 was produced by De Bont's production company, Blue Tulip, and he was one of the film's three co-producers along with Steve Perry and Michael Peyser. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times and Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune both gave Speed 2 three out of four stars,[106][107] two of the film's three positive reviews included on Rotten Tomatoes. "[70][59] After surviving a traumatic surfing incident as a teenager, Bullock had to overcome her fear of water to perform necessary stuntwork in the film. "[51] Joe Morton reprised his role from Speed as SWAT lieutenant Herb "Mac" McMahon in an uncredited cameo appearance in the beginning of the film. [64] The five-minute scene cost $25 million to produce, roughly one quarter of the film's entire budget,[16] and set records as both the largest and the most expensive stunt ever filmed. Tom Cruise has been a reliable blockbuster star for decades, so why is Mission Impossible still his only successful franchise? [40] His absence is explained in the first scene, where Annie talks about how her relationship with Jack did not work out, and mentions her current relationship with Alex (Patric), before his character is introduced in the film. Patric is the film's actual seaborne legend, and a watchable one, but the pair's gooey relationship sorely lacks Speed's thrown-together dynamic. [61] Scenes on the bridge were filmed in a mockup dubbed the "bridge ship", a large-scale reconstruction of the bow and bridge built atop the hull of a cargo ship. [94] On their film review TV series Siskel & Ebert, they collectively gave Speed 2 a positive rating of "Two Thumbs Up", calling it a "truly rousing ocean liner adventure story", although Ebert criticized Bullock's more limited role in the sequel while Patric "stole all the action sequences. View production, box office, & company info. Reeves said that Fox was "furious" with his decision and released "propaganda" against him, falsely claiming that he turned down the role to tour with his band. "[94] On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 23 out of 100, based on 22 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". An additional scene was added showing Annie and Alex driving to the port and riding a dinghy to the ship where Annie first meets Geiger. [5][6] Director Jan de Bont felt the film was a "one-time story" with no sequel potential,[7] and its studio, 20th Century Fox, included no obligation for the actors to appear in a follow-up film in their contracts. And, there's so much identity switching and uses of masks that this might as well have been called Face/Off 2. Alex notices Geiger leaving the vault and holds him at gunpoint, but he escapes by closing the fire door in front of him. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. "[98] According to the Los Angeles Times, even children who saw the film felt it was strange that it took place on a ship "not capable of going more than a few knots per hour [sic]", and claimed that Speed was "much more logical. Valkyrie is a 2008 thriller film directed and co-produced by Bryan Singer and written by Christopher McQuarrie and Nathan Alexander. Let us know what you think in the comments below. She dated the cop who saved her but broke up with him because he was constantly putting his life in danger. Speed 2: Cruise Control ist ein Actionfilm aus dem Jahr 1997 von Jan De Bont mit Sandra Bullock, Jason Patric und Willem Dafoe.. She admitted she was scared of Cruise while making the movie. [126], Speed 2: Cruise Control has been referenced and parodied in pop culture. Geiger takes Annie hostage and escapes with her on a boat from the ship's stern. 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