Directed by Jan de Bont

– IMDb user rating: 3.9

– Votes: 70,565

– Metascore: 23

– Runtime: 121 min

The sequel to the smash hit “Speed,” set on a cruise ship upon the open sea, is a masterwork of nautical implausibility. In one stupendous action scene, an ocean liner crashes into a port town and covers several blocks of land before stopping against a bell tower and tipping sideways, propped against slanted, weak-looking houses. This sequence displays incongruence between exterior and interior shots. The events inside the vessel (harrowing slants and jarring crashes) mismatch with the outdoor footage where the ship steadily crushes the neighborhood without plausible rocking or movement onboard.