10 Most Boring Blockbusters Of All Time

When Keanu Reeves refused to sign up for this sequel, he reportedly told director Jan De Bont that cruise ships don’t, like, move at speed, dude. The man has a point: a movie with Speed in the title should be fast and sleek, not sluggish and tawdry.

Jason Patrick fills in for Keanu and does what he can with The Script From Hell (co-written by Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull’s Jeff Nathanson – nuff said), but Sandra Bullock’s character has been transformed into an 80s action starlet: all she does is whine, perform unfunny slapstick and get herself kidnapped. That’s the movie in a nutshell – everything that worked in the first one has been traded in for something that’s bigger and…. worse.

Nowhere is this more apparent than during the “climax”, where De Bont reportedly spent a quarter of the film’s $110 million budget on showing the cruiser plough into a seaside resort. The sequence achieves two things: it looks incredibly fake and it’s spectacularly unexciting. But after sitting through rest of the movie, you’ll be used to that.