Reviewed by: Matthew Coats

Before I start reviewing this movie, I must admit that I hate Nicholas Cage. I cannot stand him at all, his looks, his demenaour, his mediocre talent, etc. Still though, I will try my hardest to write an unbiased review, even though this movie is 90% Nicholas Cage.

"Gone in 60 Seconds" is a remake of another movie called "Gone in 60 Seconds." Although I never heard of the original ore even seen it, I guess that's another reason why I shouldn't write this review. On the other hand, I don't think many people have seen the original and that's the audience the producers were aiming for, in which case, I should be the perfect person to write this review. Remakes are a big Hollywood trend, but since a lot of savvy film school students follw the philosphy that "Remakes suck" they've been making remakes of lesser knowen films so you won't realize it's a remake until after the movie and then you rself for watching it. I think EVERY person I talked to that saw "Bedazzled" didn't know it was a remake of another movie with Dudley Moore. They'd always say: "It was a remake? Who's Dudley Moore?"

So, "Gone in 60 Seconds" gets it's title from the time it takes to steal a car using the newest theft technology. Yet, it took 60 Seconds to steal a car in 1974 when they first made this movie using the newest technology. Yet now, with computers and what not, it still takes 60 seconds? Now, one of these two movies has to be wrong.

The 'plot' consists of Nicholas Cage and Angelina Jolie looking good and flirting while driving fast cars. All of these scenes are thinly held together by the remnants of a story, something about stealing a certain number of cars by a certain date. Now, I don't know the first thing about cars and I have trouble telling time unless it's a digital watch, so I was completly baffled by this story.

Before this movie came out I kept hearing hype about an amazing forty minute car chase and how half the movie was one single car chase. I really like car chases, but this movie greatly disappointed me. I only wanted to see the car chase, but I had to sit through painfully awful dog crap jokes, and story development when there was really no story to develop. Finally Nick steals a car for the big chase scene. There probably is 40 minutes of car chases overall, but it's all in small doses, as if the car chase scene was too intense for one sitting. It shows some cops chase Nicholas Cage, then it shows a bunch of dull acting and talking, stuff you really don't want to see in an action film. Then there's some more car chase, and twice as much 'story development.'

Overall I give this movie a 5. It's right there in the middle. It's as if this movie couldn't make up which it wanted to accentuate, the action or the story. So it builds up the story and then throws it away as it highlights the action. Then it changes it mind and decides to be serious, but then it changes it's mind yet again and decides to be an action film. It's as if they whole thing was made up as they went along, even though it was a remake and they had some relativly decent source material to refer to for decisions. Jerry Bruckheimer should really hire better people to make his films.

 

 

 

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