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GONE IN 60 SECONDS @ UGC CINEMASSTARRING: Nic Cage, Angelina Jolie, Robert Duvall, and Giovanni Ribisi.VERDICT: Fine, for the sixty seconds it stays in your head after leaving the cinema.
JERRY BRUCKHEIMER, if you haven't heard of him you would of definitely seen one of
his movies, what's he in? I hear you cry. Well he's not an actor, so what's he directed?
Well he ain't directed anything either, so why is he such a big name and why has everyone
seen a Bruckheimer movie? Old Jerry is in fact a megabucks producer and has consistently put
together the biggest, loudest, cheesiest, most expensive summer blockbusters for the last
fifteen years. So what's he done? I'll list just a few of the 'small' movies Top Gun, Con
Air, Armageddon, Days of Thunder, The Rock (no, not about WWF), Beverly Hill Cop 1 & 2,
Bad Boys, Crimson Tide and Enemy of the State, seen a Bruckheimer film? Thought you might
have.
These films conform to every known cliché and stereotype in the Hollywood blockbuster movie,
and the main point is that if you can't sum in up a sentence, or at most two, then it's not
a movie worth seeing. So here's my attempt. Retired car thief, Memphis Raines (Cage), has to
steal 60 very fast cars in an evening to save his brothers life from an evil Mancunian
crimelord, due to Memphis' brother messing up a car theft job for this mental bad guy. It's
easy isn't and there really isn't anymore to it, no deep characters or major plot twists,
just a series of fast paced cops'n'robber car chases across a sprawling LA. Admittedly
there's a bit about why Memphis left his family and a relationship with old flame Sway
(Jolie), but this stuff is hardly mould-breaking. However that's the whole point it
certainly ain't anything new but while you're watching it is a lot of fun.
So, yes I did enjoy it, the chases were cool, Cage was brilliantly over the top as a car
thief turned good turned good having to go bad and becoming good again, hope you got all
that, and there were some cheddery jokes that raised a smile. However it may have been good
while in the cinema, but leaving it was hard to remember exactly what happened that can't be
summed up in a sentence, like above ...well, precisely, NOTHING. See it, enjoy it, bask in
the fact in no way will it muddle or confuse you, if it does seek professional help, but
don't expect to enjoy a post film cup of cocoa discussing it endlessly. But who wants that
anyway?By Chris M Send us your Comments on the film. check out the official site back to the top return to the cool stuff directory |