Gone in 60 Seconds

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Summary: Great Movie!
Review: I purhased this movie the day it came out due to all the hype that this movie recieved and I must say that I wasn't disappointed. This really is a movie for guys or gals who likes cars. I personally loved this movie because I am a HUGE mustang fan! The 67 Shelby that they feature towards the end of the movie is awesome. I've never seen that car before! It would have been nice if they could have had a maybe one more chase scene instead of just the one with the Shelby Mustang, but the one that they do have doesn't disappoint at all. Pretty good acting from Nicholas Cage. If you love cars, you will love this movie! :-)

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Summary: Well, atleast Robert Duvall is in it
Review: Man, this is a really really horrible piece of junk. Everything about this movie is idiotic, from the laughable car chases to Nicolas Cage's "i'm just here for my paycheck" performance to the slutty and talentless Angelina Jolie, woo, this movie stinks.

I mean, this is a really bad movie! I'm amazed some people think its any good, flat as paper characters, a cliched plot, well everything in this movie is cliched and predictable making the overdone car chases even less exciting. People, you should demand more from Hollywood, if your getting an action movie atleast get it in high quality. Only when you stop settling for crap like this will you get some stuff actually worth watching.

And the producer, Jerry "big bucks" Bruckheimer, deserves some form of execution for the countless bad films he brings us. And his next movie, a 142 million dollar budget war flick will be horrible too, 142 million dollars?!!! How much did this movie cost to make? 72 million?!!!! Aren't you thinking maybe they should give money like this to ghettos and the rotting schools of america?

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Summary: This movie is a must have!!
Review: Ok...so the movie gods gave it a thumbs down, but they have been wrong before! I thought it was great movie. The cars are unreal, and are a must see for any true car lover!

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Summary: Movie about awesome cars
Review: The movie is about Nicholas Cage coming out of the retired status of "car thief" to save his younger brother from being crushed. He has to steal 50 cars in a given amount of time. Movie is more about the exotic cars than anything else. The end of the movie is excellent with that run on the Mustang. Pure adrenoline pumping.

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Summary: Action Packed Fun
Review: In this remake, Nicolas Cage and many other stars including: Giovanni Ribisi, Angelina Jolie, Delroy Lindo, Robert Duvall, and Will Patton take to the roads to steal as many cars as they can. This is an action packed comedy that revolves around the two main characters, Randall "Memphis" Raines (Cage) and his brother Kip Raines (Ribisi). The main story is that Kip botches a rather large "boost" of car he was supposed to steal. His employer is not so happy and threatens to kill him. This is where Randall comes in to bail his brother out. But he gets sucked into a delima and has to steal the cars himself. From that point on the movie roars into non-stop action and bits of enticing comedy. I couldn't get enough of it. If you love action, comedy, and nice cars. Then grab a copy of this film and take the ride.

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Summary: Bruckheimer Formula for Success
Review: Take a mediocre script, the type which, traditionaly, would be a low budget feature, throw a lot of money at it, giving it A-list actors and a director with MTV credentials, then hype it up with fast-paced, exciting trailers.

The result 95% of the time is a movie which could be only mediocre at best. This is the case for Gone in 60 Seconds. The plot is wildly improbable. It takes the hero three days(or aproximately 100 minutes of screen time) to decide to do what he should have done in the first 60 seconds of the movie.

Of course that would have cut out all of the lingering auto erotic shots of cars as they are being scoped out for theft, all of the dimly lit back room conversations and the car chase finale.

In other words, as usual for a Bruckheimer produced picture, the movie unapologeticly demands an excessive amount of suspension of disbelief in order to be effective.

So let's throw out the plot and go instead to the car chases which were this movie's true reason for existence. In a word: derivative. The chases felt borrowed from other movies, only without as much risk. The bit where the heroes hook the undercarriage of a rival gang's car to a towtruck was lifted directly from American Graffitti. You don't have the 150 police car pileup that happened in The Blues Brothers, there is no wild spin out like in Cannonball Run and no really big stunts like the chases in Terminator 2. The only moment which felt fresh was the compressed gas tank bouncing along the path of oncoming cars.

Ultimately this is a movie which is stuck in short term memory. It will be Gone in 60 Seconds.

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Summary: Not as bad as the critics say
Review: Gone in 60 seconds is story about a retired car thief who is forced back into the business when his kid brother ends up on the wrong side of a psychotic gangster. Nicolas Cage's assignment is simple enough, for $200, 000 he must steal 50 cars ... or his brother dies.

This movie was blasted by every critic that I saw, however, I think that the critics were overly harsh. Gone in 60 seconds is a high adrenaline, car chase film that requires the viewer to use the same powers of "willing suspension of disbelief" that are necessary for most of Nicolas Cage's action films. Nicolas Cage and a fairly impressive supporting cast (including Robert Duvall, Delroy Lindo, Angelina Jolie) give decent performances despite a script that under used them. Giovanni Ribisi is perfect in the role of Nicolas Cage's over confident younger brother.

Great acting, however, is not what this film is about. This film is about fast cars and lots of action, which it delivers. After a brief introduction to the characters, we get to watch how the thieves stalk the individual cars, a part that I found interesting. After this point, it is pretty much a none stop car chase scene, which was fairly well filmed and has a pretty good soundtrack to keep your adrenaline pumped.

This may not be the most original or deepest film out there but it is another good action film that is worth renting.

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Summary: re: irrelevant reviews
Review: Great movie, but ...But once they start stealign cars and bringingthem in the suspense and thrills come along. Cage has to steal 50cars in 3 days but he uses 2 days to get his friends together and plantheir tactics to steal the cars. All the nice and luxurious carsmakes me wanna be a car-thief when i grow up. This isn't Cage's bestperformance by far but it's a good movie to watch. I don't see whereRobert Duvall fits in and Angelina Jolie doesn't give anything to themovie. Anyone could've played her part, the same with DelroyLindo. But it's still a good movie to go see.

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Summary: This was the best movie of 2000!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This movie is great! If you're looking for action and fast cars, look no further. I enjoyed all the chase scenes and the cars. I love this movie!!!!!!!!!!!

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Summary: It's pretty good, but...
Review: ...it remains pretty pale compared to the original from 1974 that was directed, produced and written by H.B. Halicki, who also starred as the main character Maindrian Pace. Oh, and he did his own stunts as well.

Had not Halicki perished during filming of the sequel in 1989 (a water tower fell too early and crushed the car Halicki was driving), he would have been the obvious choice to direct a WORTHY remake of the best car-chasing movie of all times.

Car-chase movies were a lot better in the 70's (the Driver ('78) and Cannonball ('76) (no, NOT the Burt Reynolds comedy) for example), with the rare exception of new movies like Ronin. Watch the original Gone in 60 Seconds, and I promise you will look at the 2000 remake in a totally new light.