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Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)

Rate: 4
Viewed: 3/25

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3/25: Gone in 60 Seconds is at best described as popcorn junk picture that's almost not any different from The Fast and the Furious.

It's a good thing they got Nicolas Cage for the leading role. He can make this kind of crap easy to swallow. The story is absurd: steal fifty vehicles in a matter of hours to save a brother's life. Randall and Kip might as well go into the witness protection program and confess everything they know about grand theft auto and what they're currently involved with.

What if the car they need to steal isn't where it's supposed to be at the exact hour or is locked up in some gated community or parking garage? Time's a-wasting, kiddos! The mission wasn't even a success because three vehicles had been destroyed despite the delivery of the other forty-seven intact.

While the cast isn't bad on paper, I can do without Angelina Jolie and Giovanni Ribisi who always plays a fuckup after another with no common sense. Will Patton disappears for the longest time while Robert Duvall is obviously cashing in his reputation for a big payday. At least, Nicolas Cage and Delroy Lindo have come to save the day to keep my brain from melting down.

There's a lot of terrible editing. Several examples are Angelina Jolie partly arriving in a motorcycle, Nicolas Cage and Giovanni Ribisi miraculously escaping from a car that's being machine-gunned, and Scott Caan and Giovanni Ribisi stealing a SUV with the kid shot in the backseat before the film prematurely cuts away to the next scene.

All in all, an excuse to be as cool as Bullitt, Gone in 60 Seconds is an apt title because that's how fast my mind went after I started playing it.