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Summary: This is definately a guy movie.
Review: I see an alarming trend in the movies these days; a big budget movie with a tremendous cast and absolutely no script. "Gone in 60 Seconds" is one of those films. You look at a movie with Nick Cage, Robert Duvall, Delroy Lindo, and Angelina Jolie, and you would have to think it was going to be good, but you'd be wrong. From a purely visual standpoint the film is slick and entertaining, but in reality it is a poorly written mediocre action movie. Nicholas Cage plays Randall "Memphis" Raines a legend in the auto theft community who is forced out of retirement to save his kid brothers (played by the always strange Giovanni Ribisi) life. Raines must recruit a group of car thieves (Jolie, Duvall and others) who are capable of stealing 50 rare and exotic cars in 72 hours while the crafty police detective (played by Lindo) is hot on their trail. From there the movie goes on to be a disappointing mix of bad one liners and stale dialogue. Duvall's talent is absolutely wasted in this picture, and Angelina Jolie's physical appearance is down right frightening (what ever happend to that pretty girl from "The Bone Collecter"?). As a guy I have to admit that I loved the action and the car chases especially the final chase with Cage, but the ending is so far fetched that you wouldn't believe it. Overall I have to admit that the car chases, explosions and hot cars appealed to the guy part of me enough to say that I liked the movie, but as a movie lover I have to say that I felt a bit cheated.
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Summary: made for digital
Review: This movie was made for DVD. It was better watching at home on DVD than in the theater. The sound is great, the picture is perfect and being able to rewind is priceless. My girlfriend who doesn't watch action movies stayed awake for the whole show and that is the highest rating I can give.
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Summary: Good title.
Review: This movies makes you wonder is your car safe(LOL). I have to admit that it had good scenes and at one point I was cheering them on to get the cars they needed. The driving scene with Nicolas Cage was awesome. A real good watch.
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Summary: I'm a car nut and I think this movie STINKS!!
Review: Let me start off by saying I hate Bruckheimer movies.Given that, I was still willing to give it a go because I LOVE cars, and I LOVE action movies. Hey! Cars *and* action! My kind of movie! I've never been one to listen to critics when it comes to action movies. I don't watch them expecting Oscar caliber performances or great dialogue. I watch them to have a good time. Well, I hated this movie. I was literally counting down the minutes, praying for it to end. There *are* lots of cool cars in this movie. Too bad each one is on screen for about 3 seconds as they are loaded into the back of trailers! Basically, you get to see one cool car, the Shelby, in one long chase. If this movie has any redeeming qualities, it is that chase. However, its not even good enough to make up for having to sit through this garbage. I didn't even find the engine noises to be anything special.
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Summary: Good If Your Ready
Review: Wow, a great movie, loud noises, big bangs, hot cars, yes it does sound like one the cheesy, plotless, hollywood action flick. guess what, it is. I loved this movie, i really loved it, i am a car freak and can't seem to be able to look at the shelby enough times. This movie has no plot, no deep inner meaning, and definitely no oscar winning acting, its great because it does what its supposed to do to perfection, entertain. I reccommend this movie to anyone and everyone with one caution, prepare yourself for a mindnumbing waste of a few hours, Its great hahaha
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Summary: Very disapointing
Review: This Cage movie really disapointed me with everything. It was ridiculious. The cars are beauties but God the plot is so predictable.Robert Duvalls worst performance.
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Summary: Nothing Special
Review: Promoting car chases and hijackings, there is barely any action in the movie. The starpower does little for the movie. Gone In 60 Seconds is a dialogue filled, actionless, horribly executed, poorly plotted excuse for a movie and a total disappointment.
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Summary: More FX than Stunts
Review: Nicholas Cage is "Memphis," a hotshot retired car thief who returns to his trade by stealing numerous prized automobiles in one night. The plot is a familiar yarn where a master thief is forced out of retirement by a crime lord to do a high stakes job. In this feature, the plot is massaged with Memphis having to steal fifty autos across Los Angeles in order to save the life of his younger brother held ransom by the crime lord for botching the job in an earlier attempt. Memphis, living in obscurity, returns to Los Angeles to meet the crime lord's demand. Memphis's mission is complicated with being able to recruit only a portion of his old crew, and catching heat from the police and a rival gang who are tipped off on his presence. In a bold move, he decides to do the job in a daring one-night raid to outfox his enemies. There's plenty of decent action and it's worth watching, but there are not many real stunts as one would expect from a feature such as this. There's a scene of a Porsche coupe driven through a plate glass window and some excited driving, sliding and crashing of autos across city streets. However, much of the action is over-laden with split second sequences from numerous camera angles, heavily enhanced with digital FX. Viewers' intelligence is insulted by a far-fetched sequence when Memphis jumps a Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 over a car accident obstacle by hitting a tow-truck's lowered car ramp at 120 miles per hour. Not to mention a 160-mile per hour dash through the aquaduct to elude the police. Special effects are great, but they don't rival the classic car chases of "Bullitt," "Mad Max," or "The Road Warrior." Car enthusiasts will be disappointed with only fleeting glimpses of some classic muscle cars in the movie, and the stolen Shelby Mustang driven by Memphis is a replica, but I can't imagine any owner allowing their authentic model to get bashed up for a film. DVD image and sound quality is very good, but the movie doesn't quite live up to its title.
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Summary: A fun film if you're a car or Nick Cage fan
Review: If you're one of these die-hard critics that tears up movies for this and that, nothing new here, etc etc, than you're barking up the wrong tree with this movie. On the other hand, if you love cars -- and know exotics well, you'll be pleased to see some of your favorites on screen. The Jaguar XJ220 was my favorite, but there's a Diablo, a whole Ferrari warehouse, Porsches, old classics like a Cuda and, of course, the 67 Stang, and more. This score comes from that. The reason I give four, and not five, stars, is that many of these cars are cameos, and you don't get to see them, quote, "in action." They start up, and drive off, and they're gone. But if you like cars, you'll like this. If you're a MOVIE critic, not a car fan, this movie is probably not your thing. It was obviously made for the car-buff market. It's got some zany chases and just about the most intense car jump I've seen in a long time (even if it was completely implausible -- so who cares? I mean, this is Hollywood! If I want reality, I'll turn on the news). Overall fun movie, beautiful, out of this world cars, and a few funs chase scenes (watching a new 911 Turbo spank a wigged-out Civic was worth the watch alone :). Only gripe would be a lot of bark (aka all the gorgeous cars) with not enough bite (the cars are generally not really "used" -- of course, this movie probably features $20 million in rare cars alone, and who would even run the RISK of wrecking even one of them? :). Hope that helps!
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Summary: Bad
Review: This movie is bad. Way to go Nick, another fine piece of hollywood trash under your belt.
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