Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)

A retired master car thief (Nicolas Cage) must come back to the industry and steal fifty cars with his crew in one night to save his brother's life.I may not know much about cars and I know probably even less about stealing them, but this is a fun movie. A bit implausible, especially one scene with a car jumping a ramp and going like a quarter mile... but what fun, and what a great cast. Even Angelina Jolie, who is far from my favorite actress, is somewhat interesting here.This must have been around the tail end of Cage's golden age of roles. I think he did a few more that were decent since then (both "Lord of War" and "Weather Man" are great), but this was probably the last big film he did before his downfall.

As remakes go, "Gone in Sixty Seconds" isn't as bad as say, the made-for-TV "Vanishing Point", but it's certainly no improvement on the original movie. They added a police subplot, huge cast and turned it into a Nicolas Cage vehicle. What's funny about this movie is that, it's stylistically very similar to "The Fast and the Furious" (with a scoop of "Ocean's Eleven" thrown in). It's shot like a music video, lots of whip pans, green lighting and fast cuts.Yet it's disappointingly lifeless. Even the frenetic car chases don't help here (dizzying doesn't equal exciting). And as for that cast (high-profile as it is) Chi McBride is easily at the head of class, while Giovanni Ribisi is . . . well, the less said about him, the better. At the very least, they stayed fairly true to the prized Mustang of the '70s movie (this time, it's a '67 Shelby), and made her the star of the show. If that car can't sell tickets, I dunno what could. Oddly, such an attraction was blurred out on the poster, in favor of floating heads Cage and Jolie (ugh, that hair).But get that original movie out of your head, because such a comparison does this remake no favors.5/10

Gone in Sixty Seconds came on TV the other night and proved me right in avoiding it in theaters back in the day. Nicolas Cage offers his standard performance, Angelina Jolie gives a lesson in "wooden acting", while the rest of the crew duly follows.There is nothing essentially new or wrong in this movie. It introduces us to a world of small time crooks, car thieves and semi-competent police officers. Since the story revolves around cars, you might even enjoy it if you're into cars yourself.I'm always impressed how such mess of a movie gets funding and then even earns money at the box office.

I'm a big fan of Nicolas Cage for all leading roles in a variety of films he played. The Gone in Sixty Seconds production was very unique in terms of exotic cars, stunts performed and off course the story. I remember when i was 18, I'd watch this movie almost few times a week and simply never get tired. I'm assuming, the reason why i'd be so into it, is because of the exotic cars and the speed that Nicolas character Memphis would accelerate from zero to 60. And I'll be honest, when i came across Shelby GT-500 on zeroto60.co stats, i wanted to watch this movie instantaneously but watching at the age of 18 was much more exiting. Even though so many years passed, the movies is still good, but hopefully they'll make the second one with Nicolas Cage and co-star Angelina Jolie.