it is now i sold (Gone in Sixty Seconds (DVD))

Member Name: 28frankie

Product:	Gone in Sixty Seconds (DVD)
Date:	23/05/04 (43 review reads)
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Advantages: Angelina Jolie

Disadvantages: bad script

Jerry Bruckheimer pays homage to "The Dukes of Hazzard" in this cliché-riddled tale of fast cars, fast women, and fast thinking! Okay, well, the characters don't really think all that much, and, sure, Angelina Jolie is only there for window dressing... but the cars are fast, right? No, but they sure look nice, and isn't that all that's really important in a summer blockbuster? Not even.

Nicolas Cage is "Memphis" Raines, an ex-car thief turned good and, never having actually paid for his crimes against humanity, now runs a go-cart center for children. Seriously. Following in his brother's footsteps is Kip (Giovanni Ribisi), who has promised to steal fifty rare or expensive cars by a specific deadline but gets into trouble when the cops impound the ones he's already stolen. "Memphis" has to complete the order Kip couldn't make and, just to make things interesting, decides to steal them all in the same night... at the last possible second. Angelina Jolie shows up for a few minutes, as does Robert Duvall, and Delroy Lindo plays the hard-boiled detective from the streets giving "Memphis" all the rope he needs to hang himself.

Where did this film go horribly wrong? First, it's a remake of a 1974 film of the same title that starred, was written by and directed by H.B. Halicki, who later made a sequel that apparently was much better than the original. Apparently, only Jerry Bruckheimer remembered the original. Second is the script. If the bad guy says "I am holding your brother hostage, go steal cars for me," why would the bad guy let his hostage go? On the word of a fellow criminal? "Memphis" leaves, get this, LEAVES ten thousand dollars in cash on the floor of the bad guy's office when's it's thrown back in his face, but apparently doesn't have the resources to smuggle his mom and brother out of town when there's nobody stopping him. Yeah, "
Memphis" is one smart (reformed) criminal mastermind.

Third, Angelina Jolie. You'd think she was just the pin-up girl every mechanic has hanging on his wall, not an under-used Oscar-winning actress that got roped into a bad film by an agent she should fire. By the look of the trailer and movie posters, you'd also assume she had more than five minutes of screen time, too. Everyone else walks through their part, kind of an old- world- thieves- meet- new- world- thieves kind of thing, but even that doesn't make up for having a dog that eat three uncopyable laser-encrypted keys and the time that was wasted walking the dog to do his business and recover them.

Feel sorry for Nicolas Cage. After The Rock and, to lesser extent, Con Air, he's stuck in lukewarm thrillers like Snake Eyes and the far worse 8mm. When he does do a halfway decent movie, like Bringing Out the Dead, nobody sees it when the studio botches the marketing, so it's back to films like Gone in Sixty Seconds..

Sure, there's a moment or two of tension and the inevitable car chase actully the chases are quite good, and it looks good, well filmed and all, but nothing really happens just lots of waiting about un till it does happen.

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