13 Movie Sequels That Shouldn't Have Been Made

Venturing now into some of the more ridiculous sequels that have somehow been produced, here is the questionable 1997 "action" Speed 2: Cruise Control. All you need to know about this film is in the title; it's cheesy (somehow more so than the original), lacks an exciting story, and is wholly unnecessary.

Whilst the original was kept up by a hyperactive villain in Dennis Hopper and a confident macho-man performance from Keanu Reeves, the sequel is forced to rely on Sandra Bullock as the leading lady, and the results are poor at best. Even Willem Dafoe, one of his generation's most daring and underrated performers, fails to hit any marks outside of "Look how evil and nuts I am."

But the acting isn't the only problem.

The dialogue is lousy, too, and the chemistry between Bullock and new on-screen love interest Jason Patric - the most uninteresting part of the entire film - is weak and the relationship unwelcome. On a whole, it's too silly, too predictable and unexciting, to be considered a worthy sequel to Speed.

And as a rule of thumb, if Keanu Reeves - star of Matrix: Reloaded and Revolutions, and The Day the Earth Stood Still - refuses to be in your film, maybe it shouldn't be made...