Roadrunner (Gone in Sixty Seconds (DVD))

Member Name: moronboy

Product:	Gone in Sixty Seconds (DVD)
Date:	07/08/00 (7 review reads)
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Advantages: Slick and enjoyable

Disadvantages: You'll have forgotten it next week

Given the brushoff in the press, 'Gone in 60 seconds' isn't all that bad. The cars are cool, the action fluently handled, and it all looks very flash and expensive. Former car stealing ace Memphis Raines (Nic Cage) is dragged back to LA to fulfil a debt to a crime boss (Christopher Eccleston) that his feckless brother (Giovanni Riblisi) has botched: if Cage doesn't steal 50 cars in three days, little brother is dead meat.

There isn't quite the auto-destruction you expect (and subconciously want), and there are less car chases than the scenario would seem to demand. But Dominic Sena directs with an eye for gleaming metal and glorious Californian sunshine, and there's a pounding soundtrack. Most importantly, the screenplay by Scott Rosenberg (who wrote 'Con Air' and helped to adapt 'High Fidelity) is consistently witty and self-deprecating, with smart one-liners for Cage, Robert Duvall and Angelina Jolie, she of the beestung lips. It's absolutely nothing special, but still perfectly entertaining; far less silly and bombastic than 'Mission Impossible', it's worth a fiver of anyone's money.

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