For the famous Hollywood actress, the tape is boring and she knew it even before recording it.
Sandra Bullock is one of the most famous American actresses in the world, thanks to the number of films that she has recorded throughout her career, in addition to the successful characters that she has accompanied in said feature films.
However, in the midst of her fame and recognition, the 57-year-old actress assured that she has among her film catalog one in particular with which she said she does not feel good, neither now nor at the time she recorded it.
“I have one that no one went near and I'm still embarrassed that I was there. It's called Speed 2. I've talked a lot about it. Has no sense. slow boat. Slowly going towards an island”, said Ella Bullock in an interview that she offered to the specialized portal Toofab.
The protagonist of Miss Congeniality called the script for Maximum Speed 2 (as it is known in Latin America) boring, mentioning that, even before recording the film, she knew that the plot would be somewhat bland and predictable.
It should be remembered that this tape was the sequel to Maximum speed, recorded in 1994, which had the participation of Keanu Reeves as the protagonist. The first film of this saga has as its plot the placement of a bomb on a bus, which cannot slow down, because if it brakes, the device would explode.
"Speed is tense, tense and energetic, with outstanding performances from Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper and Sandra Bullock", is the review given by the critics on the Rotten Tomatoes portal. They also have an acceptance of 76% of the audience and 94% of the reviewers within the platform.
The opposite happens with Maximum speed 2, in which, to begin with, it no longer had the leading role of Reeves, but instead Jason Patric appeared, in the role of Alex Shaw. In this feature film, they changed a bus for a boat, which on this occasion was hijacked. The plot was none other than to prevent the boat from crashing into an oil tanker, ultimately causing it to run aground on an island.
“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 emotion,” is the review that can be read at Rotten Tomatoes. Likewise, the percentage of acceptance contrasts with what the first film received: 16% of the audience and 4% of specialized critics.
“That's one I wish I hadn't done and it wasn't seen by the fans that I know of. Except you," Bullock said, laughing, to the journalist who interviewed her.
She then continued her joke, assuring that “(the plot) was very calm. Like, almost, five people. He (journalist) and the other four children, 12 years old, watched as the slow boat headed towards the small island.”
Keanu Reeves has the same thought, as he detailed a few years ago on The Graham Norton Show. For the protagonist of the Matrix saga, the film did not present much emotion and it was something that he could see in the script when he was invited to be part of it.
“I really wanted to work with Sandra Bullock, I loved playing Jack Traven and I loved Speed, but a transatlantic ship? I had nothing against the artists involved, but at the time I had a feeling that the film was not the right thing to do,” he said.
It should be remembered that, according to information from Variety magazine, Maximum speed 2 was a resounding failure at the box office, barely covering the 160 million dollars that 20th Century Fox spent for its production.
