Gone In 60 Seconds Reviews

Great fun. Some superb car chases and some of the most glorious cars ever made. Well directed and well acted by a solid cast. Not a movie I expected to like, if I'm honest. but one that won me over very quickly. Great.

Hmmmmmm

It's more like asleep in 60 seconds. It's more of a Chav fest. If I went to see it in the cinema then I would have been surrounded by Burberry wearing text messaging chavs and their chavettes. Nicolas Cage is not the most versatile of actors so it the perfect film for him.

A BGB (Bubble Gum for the Brain)film

Fast Paced, must see movie

This film makes car theft look glamorous, great cast and on screen chemistry, definately a must see.

rubbish

A remake in the Bruckheimer (sans Simpson) style of a minor '70s car theft/chase/crash movie (that was written, directed by and starred H.B. Halicki), this is an identikit of recent big-bucks action pictures still mired in the style Bruckheimer - director Dominic Sena barely registers - 'perfected' in the '80s. It brings back the actors, images, plot devices and editing tricks from such hits as Top Gun, Days Of Thunder, The Rock and Con Air, but rushes through its rerun without ever really coming to grips with the fact that one car theft is very much like another.

Patton is a go-between for all the criminal parties on show here, valiantly reprising his Armageddon act by trying to suggest emotional content where none exists, while outclassed cops Lindo and Olyphant plod along in the stylish crooks' tracks, planning to nail Cage once and for all, despite the fact that in LA, 'Nobody cares about auto theft.'

Among the gimmicks required to keep the plot going is a dog which swallows crucial car keys, a particular model of classic auto about which Cage has a complex, simmering who-left-whom resentment between the brothers, Eccleston's transparent plan to off everybody anyway (the final face-off takes place in what looks rather like a leftover from the set of James Cameron's Terminator 2), and a traffic blockage that prompts Cage to make an Evel Knievel leap which would like to be the highlight of the picture.

It's impossible to care about Cage's mission, Ribisi is an arsehole who deserves to get crushed, Eccleston a creep who doesn't deserve the cars, and the car-owners are anonymous rich types - rather like the executives who greenlit this film, perhaps? But the music is loud, the editing is fast, the cast is overqualified and the cars... Well, they're just cool.

FAST PACED ACTION THRILLER

Nicolas cage scores again in Gone in sixty seconds, a face paced action thriller that does not fail to please. The cars are fast and the shoot ups are wild. A film every man, woman or child will enjoy. Loved it.