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Speed was a surprise hit, but it shouldn’t have been: Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, and a bus wired to explode if it slowed down made for a surprisingly compelling summer flick. Yet despite Speed director Jan de Bont’s reported insistence that there was no potential for a sequel, 20th Century Fox disagreed. What resulted was a painfully generic action movie that featured a slow moving cruise ship on a collision course with an oil tanker. Reeves stayed away from the production and was replaced by Jason Patric. Not only did the film lack a compelling leading man, but the villain was also worse than in the first movie: Willem Dafoe paled in comparison to Dennis Hopper’s bombastic terrorist mastermind.