Great Film overall

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Also, poor Nicholas Cage, I knew him well... Once upon a time (possibly in Las Vegas) he was a Box Office heavyweight. Now... well, you can probably pick up one of his latest films from those buckets you find of DVDs for £2.99 in petrol stations. However, before his decent into depressingly-bad cinema, he made some pretty fun films. Yes, he's won an Oscar in his time for his deep and meaningful acting, but you won't find any of that here. Just fun.Nicholas Cage plays (basically) Nicholas Cage – only a Nicholas Cage who used to steal expensive cars, only to retire. However, his loose cannon of a brother steals (or doesn't steal – I forget – it doesn't matter!) for (or from) the wrong mobster in L.A. meaning Nicholas Cage the now not-so retired car thief must steal a load of flash motors in one night or his brother ends up in the car crusher (literally!).If you like fast cars driving even faster (and, judging by the 'Fast and the Furious' franchise a lot of people do) then this one is basically for you. It's an action film and it's pretty much by the numbers, but, when it's such fun, who cares? Everyone cranks their performances up to eleven and it all comes across as one of those adorable eighties and nineties 'over-the-top' action flicks (yes, I know it was made it in 2000, but it sure feels like a nineties movie) with a real cartoony vibe to it. You have Christopher Ecleston plays the 'evil Brit villain' much like any other evil Brit villains you've seen in cinema. Vinnie Jones and Angelina Jolie are on hand to show their faces, but feel a little underused for what they could have been.Ultimately, it's all on Nicholas Cage's manic shoulders and he does the film proud. It's loud, dumb and it's basically one long car crash that you'll probably be unable to tear your eyes away from.

.........A line delivered with as much ferocity as a child whom has just been given the keys to a sweet shop.Kip Raines was contracted to steal 50 specific cars, but he got a little too too cocky, and something went wrong. Now the man who hired him, Raymond Calitri, wants him dead. When his brother, Memphis, once a great car thief, learns of this, he comes back to town to see if he can help his brother. The only thing that will reason Calitri is if the order is fulfilled. So Memphis assembles his old crew, but has to do the job in a few days. A cop who hounded him for years, learning of his return, is keeping an eye on him......With the Advent of The Rock, and the fact that he won an Academy Award for LLV, Cage was a big draw for crowds for around four years. But then like Travolta, his choices became a little more silly, and this movie marks one of the last appearances where his star power really brought in the money.And he clearly does have screen presence here, especially when the script isn't really up to scratch, and he has to deal with an absolute plethora of characters, all with different traits, wanting the set to chew.I guarantee, if someone were to say to you 'Name ten people who appear in GISS' you would not have any trouble in doing so.But it's fun, Cage is as good as he ever was, and has a wonderful camaraderie with the rest of the cast. But the rest of the cast are your atypical cliché riddled characters.Jolie is the hardened to him jilted ex, but she warms to him. Duvall is the seasoned wisdom spouting fountain of knowledge. Lindo is the man after him, but he secretly really like him. Jones is the silent hard man. McBride is the loud mouth, what do you want from me sidekick.Patton is exactly the same character he played in Armageddon (it works though).And then there's Eccleston, even though the man is a fantastic actor, he is one of Bruckhiemers most forgettable villains. He has a thing for wood which never gets elaborated on, and he does nothing but be sarcastic and be in the grand finale which seems to be in the same place where T2 had its finale.Now if they did a cross over where he found a piece of the T800, and designed some sort of Terminator car, that would have been a bonkers film.It's not terrible by any means. It's funny, has the Bruckhiemer sheen, and it all ends how you would expect it too in film featuring fast cars...........a great big barbecue.Fun while it lasts, but you will forget about it........in sixty seconds.

60 seconds, 60 seconds, 60 seconds… you missed the point, really. This isn't about stars, characters, plot. The cars are your stars. I watched this version back to back with the original, and wow, there is really no comparison. This loose remake tried way too hard to re-think such a basic concept that didn't need so much re-thinking. The original was low-budget and high-speed, which worked. That's the movie it was. For this version to share a name with that version is akin to false advertising. This one was without a doubt low-speed and certain more high-budget than the original. Attempts at humor? Forced. Excitement about the illicit behavior of stealing cars? Not there. It is derivative, not of its source material, but of various other heist-style films, by trying to find suspense in the behind-the-scenes drama of who ordered the car thefts and why and what was going to happen if the team didn't come through. Whatever. Let's just get some cars on the road and see 'em wreck! Check the original for a movie that lives up to its premise. This one is a vehicle for anything other than cars. (Yes, that's deliberately pointing to irony that wasn't intended by the filmmakers.)

Here we go.Now I have been meaning to review this movie for some time now I'll do it while it may not be one of the best films ever made I'm one of those movie fans who looks past the junk and see the treasure. But this film is pretty fun to watch if you are into Cars like I am.The films centers around Memphis Raines (Nicolas Cage) trying to help his brother Kip Raines (Giovanni Ribisi) by coming out of retirement after he was a master car thief to steal 50 cars for Raymond Calitri (Christopher Eccleston) or Kip will be killed. With Detective Roland Castlebeck (Delroy Lindo) and his partner Detective Drycoff (Timothy Olyphant) So Memphis turns to his old friends Otto Halliwell (Robert Duvall), Donny Astricky (Chi McBride) The Sphinx (Vinnie Jones), Sara 'Sway' Wayland (Angelina Jolie) while Kip turns to his friends Mirror Man (T.J. Cross), Tumbler (Scott Caan) Freb (James Duval) Toby (William Lee Scott). Now the plot is interesting to make you want to watch the film if you are into cars and action films The film is written clearly to be a film about action and it does have those moments and they actually have some knowledge on the cars they used in the film which is actually surprising. And they pick some very good cars to use in the film. There are some tense moments in the film that make you go did they just do that ? you have to watch and see what happens in the film to know what I'm talking about. The film was done to please car and action fans it actually did well for a change.My advice is to check it out you might be reward for watching a film with good car stunts.I give Gone In Sixty Seconds a 8 out of 10