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Gone in Sixty Seconds [2000]
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| Editorial Reviews: | | |  | | IGone in 60 Seconds/I opens on Kip Raines (Giovanni Ribisi), a cocky young car thief working with a crew to steal 50 cars for a very bad man whose nickname is "The Carpenter". Being young and cocky, Kip messes up, so it's up to his big brother, Randall "Memphis" Raines (Nicolas Cage), to come out of car-thief retirement and save him. With a cast that includes Robert Duvall, Angelina Jolie, Delroy Lindo, Cage and Ribisi, it would be easy to say this story wastes all their talents--which it does, but that's not the point. This is a Jerry Bruckheimer film. A good story and complex characters would only get in the way of the action scenes and slow the movie down. No, IGone in 60 Seconds/I (based on the cult 1974 film of the same name) is not about the stars as much as it's about cars. Fast cars. Rare cars. Wrecked cars. All cars. Too bad director Dominic Sena (IKalifornia/I) doesn't come across as more of a gearhead; he seems less interested in fast cars than fast cuts. But is this movie fun? Absolutely, and it's fun because it's so stupid. With pointless car chases and hackneyed dialogue in one of the most predictable plots of the year, IGone in 60 Seconds/I is a comic film that's not quite a parody of itself, but darn close. --IAndy Spletzer, Amazon.com/I | |
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| | br /Very enjoyable film, no real picture improvement over the standard DVD version though... Worth a rent
| | | Gone In 60 Seconds is an energetic, slick, stylish action film with high octane star power and lots of awesome looking cars. If you are a viewer interested in cars this production by producer Jerry Bruckheimer, is worth seeing just to feast your eyes on the glossy vehicles. Although the film secrets a stench of weakness in many areas, its precise sense of action and excitement make it a moderately successful summer thrill ride.br /br /The film stars Giovanni Ribsi as a young crook named Kip Raines, who as the film opens fails to deliver a long list of expensive cars to the powerful criminal Raymond Calitri (Christopher Eccleson). When Kip's life is threatened because of it, his older brother Randall Raines (Nicolas Cage), a retired but skillful car thief, is called upon to complete a task in exchange for his brother's survival: steal fifty cars specified by model, colour, year and make in only four days.br /br /Randall uses the first three days recruiting a team of bandits to help him pull off the heist. The crew includes Sara Wayland (Angelina Jolie), a sexy yet gruff retired car swindler knowing Randall through previous business, a person called Mirror Man (T.J. Cross), the aging and wise Otto Halliwell (Robert Duvall), as well as Tumbler (Scott Caan), Atley Jackson (Will Patton, Toby (William Lee Scott) and Donny Asktricky (Chi McBirde).br /br /Contributing to the film's drive and tension is a subplot involving two police detectives Roland Castlebeck (Delroy Lindo) and Drycoff (Timothy Olyphant), who suspect from previous experience that Randall and his crew are up to no good and keep an extra close eye on them.br /br /There is not much time for character development here, the audience get to know these people through their rugged lifestyles and assume tough personalities through the film's hard core, stylish atmosphere. To make matters worse for the film, the dialogue fails to define the characters with a gritty cultural tone. I'm not stating I think profanity is necessary for thrillers to flourish but I think the bad language works here. I do believe in a film such as Gone In 60 Seconds, to strongly develop the character's enlightenment, dialouge needs to be believable and authentic.br /br /In spite of problems, the characters are effective due to the top notch, perfectly cast performers responsible. Nicolas Cage's melodramatic performance is intense and convincing. Angelina Jolie's sleazy appearance is completely appropriate here. Delroy Lindo is sturdy and believable. Giovanni Ribisi, Scott Caan, Robert Duvall, Will Patton, Christopher Eccleston and Vinnie Jones provide persuasive supporting roles.br /br /The film contains standard structure, with a satisfactory first act that elaborates on the story's style ans the character's motives, sets up a fast paced theme of action but lacks depth and strong character introduction. In the second act we run into a few more problems: the story wastes time during much of this segment, never really building up for the third act. While the middle of the film occupies much of the time, a sex scene provides a solid mid plot, not a whole lot happens. The third act is pretty much a adrenaline rush containing furious wall to wall excitement and one of the most intense car chase sequences ever filmed.br /br /The soundtrack to Gone In 60 Seconds contributes a great deal of inspirational action scenes. It is scenes like the car chases that make this film work in spite of several destructive faults. Dominic Sena, whose career has mostly consisted of directing adverts, has an appealing style and a decisive attitude in Gone In 60 Seconds which will grant audiences with two hours of commotion, thrills and excitement but not much more.br /br /Thank you for reading my review.
| | | if you watch gone in 60 seconds the word blockbuster springs to mind,big stunts,brash over the top car chases and a solid cast that wouldnt have been paid in tesco vouchers,but just because the film can be deemed a blockbuster doesnt necessarily make it so and gone in 60 seconds has the formula more or less right but the execution isnt quite right.br /The film deals with a gang of car thiefs who are forged due to the threat of death of an ex car thief played by nic cages brother,they have to collect a series of cars within a space of time,so in essence you are cheering on crooks and booing the police and that formula is pretty decent but the film isnt as perfect as that implies,cage and angie jolie lack the chemistry that they are trying to convey,it just looks a shambles plus the film is far too predictable and it is also quite lame at times but for all that there are some great cars on show and we see them being drive to speeds that dazzle so while this isnt essential it could appeal to some.
| | forget nic cage remake in 60 secs | |
| | This is THE best chase movie ever bar none. The main chase in the movie lasts for almost half the duration of the film and the damage etc to the car makes it so realistic. The stunts and cars featured in the film are top notch. This film makes you wonder why they bothered remaking it. They could have simply re-released the origional.br /It may not be the most sophisticated movie in the world but it's definitly one of the fastest and entertaining.br /BUY THIS MOVIE!
| | ANOTHER BRILLIANT PERFORMANCE BY NICK CAGE... | |
| | If you like Nicholas Cage...you will love this film FULL STOP!!brAnd with the talented Angelina Jolie as Nick's beautiful co- star....this film is worth buying.
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