History Film / Speed2CruiseControl

* TheBadGuyWins: Granted, it's something of a PyrrhicVictory, but Annie and Alex are so busy being lovey-dovey at the end of the second film that they fail to realise that [[spoiler:the bad guy technically achieved virtually everything he set out to do. There was no way the cruise ship would be seaworthy again after crashing nearly a mile inland, he blew up the freighter and killed several people he had a grudge against, including the captain. If not for the slight matter of him getting blown up with the freighter and the diamonds falling into the sea and being salvaged by a third party, Geiger would have achieved a perfect scorecard]].

* NotNowKiddo: "Mommy, there's a big boat!" "There are a lot of big boats here, honey." [[spoiler:Poor kid doesn't know enough English to say, "Yeah, but most of them aren't smashing through the pier straight at us!"]]

* BlondGuysAreEvil: Geiger, played by the normally dark-haired Willem Dafoe.

* CompleteMonster: John Gieger is not much different from Howard Payne. While Payne's bombings are a much more conscious seeker of death at every turn, Gieger takes a more calais approach to human life. Yes, he has his indignation about being fired over the copper poisoning he got from the job itself, but to make his point, he plans out a hostile takeover of the ship's controls and plans to crash it into an oil tanker with innocent crewmen who had nothing to do with the Seabourn Legend. In the matter of the cruise ship's crew, it's guilt by association in Gieger's mind, but that doesn't excuse it or when he continues forward even after innocent passengers are still stranded on board. Not to mention that while everyone is distracted by the disaster itself, he robs the ship's vault of priceless jewels. Earlier, he throws the captain overboard just to get him out of the way. He leaves Alex and Juliano to die when they attempt to jam the propeller of the ship too. In sharp contrast to Payne, while Payne had the [[EvenEvilHasStandards civility to not use physical force against Annie]] (though strapping a bomb to her chest is arguably worse and how he got it on to begin with comes to question), Gieger resorts to nearly pummeling Annie and smacking her around so that he can use her as a hostage as well. His roughness when simply using a gun to force her cooperation was purely unnecessary.

* Complete Monster: John Gieger is not much different from Howard Payne. While Payne's bombings are a much more conscious seeker of death at every turn, Gieger takes a more calais approach to human life. Yes, he has his indignation about being fired over the copper poisoning he got from the job itself, but to make his point, he plans out a hostile takeover of the ship's controls and plans to crash it into an oil tanker with innocent crewmen who had nothing to do with the Seabourn Legend. In the matter of the cruise ship's crew, it's guilt by association in Gieger's mind, but that doesn't excuse it or when he continues forward even after innocent passengers are still stranded on board. Not to mention that while everyone is distracted by the disaster itself, he robs the ship's vault of priceless jewels. Earlier, he throws the captain overboard just to get him out of the way. He leaves Alex and Juliano to die when they attempt to jam the propeller of the ship too. In sharp contrast to Payne, while Payne had the [[EvenEvilHasStandards civility to not use physical force against Annie]] (though strapping a bomb to her chest is arguably worse and how he got it on to begin with comes to question), Gieger resorts to nearly pummeling Annie and smacking her around so that he can use her as a hostage as well. His roughness when simply using a gun to force her cooperation was purely unnecessary.

** The reason Annie and Jack aren't together: Relationships based on intense experiences never work.

* LighterAndSoftier: Rated PG-13 instead of the R rating that the first film got.

* ContinuityNod: The guy whose Jaguar gets wrecked in the first movie appears again to have his boat commandeered by Alex.

* LighterAndSofiter: Rated PG-13 instead of the R rating that the first film got.

* FauxActionGirl: Annie turns into this, which is one of its many complaints. Annie is a vital part to everyone's survival in the first movie as she's driving the bus, but without that premise in this film, she just turns into a wisecracking, frazzled heroine without much to do

* BusmansHoliday

* RecycledPremise

The film wasn't received well upon its release, and is generally held as yet another example of a sequel that fails to live up to the original. Creator/RogerEbert and GeneSiskel of all people both gave the movie a positive review, which are the only two positive reviews on the movie's Website/RottenTomatoes page. Ebert later said that the review is sometimes used to demonstrate his "worthlessness" as a film critic.

The film wasn't received well upon its release, and is generally held as yet another example of a sequel that fails to live up to the original. Creator/RogerEbert of all people gave the movie a positive review, which is the only positive review on the movie's Website/RottenTomatoes page. Ebert has said that the review is sometimes used to demonstrate his "worthlessness" as a film critic.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Alex to Jack.

The film wasn't received well upon its release, and is generally held as yet another example of a sequel that fails to live up to the original. Creator/RogerEbert of all people gave the movie a positive review, which is the only positive review on the movie's RottenTomatoes page. Ebert has said that the review is sometimes used to demonstrate his "worthlessness" as a film critic.

Turns out that Annie's (SandraBullock) relationship with Jack didn't work out, and now she is seeing another police officer named Alex (Jason Patric). He takes her to a trip to the Caribbean, aboard the cruise ship Seabourn Legend. Unfortunately, the easy-going vacation comes to a halt as a disgruntled computer programmer named John Geiger (Willem Dafoe) takes control of the ship, and sets it up with explosives.

The film wasn't received well upon its release, and is generally held as yet another example of a sequel that fails to live up to the original.

* ChainsawGood: Alex finds one in a linen closet (!) and uses them to saw through some metal doors.

* FauxActionGirl: Annie turns into this, which is one of its many complaints. Annie is a vital part to everyone's survival in the first movie as she's driving the bus, but without that premise in this film, she just turns into a wisecracking, frazzled heroine without much to do.

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