GONE IN SIXTY SECONDS (2000)

MORGAN'S RATING

Car theft in Long Beach went down 47% when Randall "Memphis" Raines walked away from the life. He gets dragged back into it by assuming the job his brother Kip screwed up for stolen-car broker Raymond Callitri: steal 50 exotic cars and have them on a container ship by 8am Friday morning. Raines recieved this information on Monday morning. With Calitri threatening to kill him and his brother, and the police GRAB unit breathing down his neck, Memphis reassembles his old crew and attempts to pull off the logistically impossible in this action-packed, edge-of-your-seat thriller that rockets past you at  thunderous speed.

Nicolas Cage (Randall "Memphis" Raines), Giovianni Ribisi (Kip Raines), Angelina Jolie (Sara "Sway" Wayland), T.J. Cross (Mirror Man), William Lee Scott (Toby), Scott Caan (Tumbler), James Duval (Freb), Will Patton (Atley Jackson), Delroy Lindo (Detective Roland Castlebeck), Timothy Olyphant (Detective Drycoff), Chi McBride (Donny AStricky), Robert Duvall (Otto Halliwell), Christopher Eccleston (Raymond Calitri), Vinnie Jones (The Sphinx), Grace Zabriskie (Helen Raines), Frances Fisher (Junie), Dean Rader-Duval (Hype), Billy Devlin (Detective Jurgens), Bodhi Elfman (Fuzz Frizzel), Trevor Goodard, Master P. (Johnnie D).

ICE COLD, HOT WIRED.

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

DIRECTOR: Dominic Sena (Swordfish).

WRITER: Scott Rosenberg.

PRODUCERS: Jerry Bruckheimer and Mike Stenson.

ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS: Aristides McGarry and  Pat Sandston.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Denice Shakarian Halicki, Jonathan Hensleigh, Chad Oman, Webster Stone, Robert Stone and Barry H. Waldman.

ORIGINAL MUSIC: Trevor Rabin and Paul Linford.

DISTRIBUTOR: Touchstone Pictures.

QUOTES

Punk: I'm not gonna mess around with someone who plays with dog shit!

Randall "Memphis" Raines: I'm a little tired, I'm a little wired, and I just want a little appreciation.

[Kip is about to break into the dealership] Mirror Man: We might as well call prison and make reservations.

Otto: We're gonna have to go old school on this. A day to shop, a day to prep.

Randall: I am a baaaaad man.

CRITICAL COMMENTS

FACTS

"Relentlessly stupid remake...Even as a no-brainer this is pretty poor, with low-octane action and preposterous finale. Jolie is barely in it; Duvall and Lindo are wasted." -- Leonard Maltin

RELEASE DATE: June 9th, 2000 (USA)

BOX OFFICE OPENING: $25.3 million (USA) BOX OFFICE RESULT: $101.6 million (USA) BUDGET: $90 million (USA)

- The last name left on Randall Raines's list of boosters is Rick Santoro. Santoro is the same last name of Nicolas Cage's character in Snake Eyes.

"This is the kind of movie that ends up playing on the TV set over the bar in a better movie." -- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times.

"This should have been a fun movie: clean and tight and simple. Instead, it's an occasionally amusing comedy with the usual Bruckheimer nerve-plucking going on." -- Robert Horton, Film.com

"Chases are big but--with one exception, which stands out for its determination to bring in da noise--joyless." -- Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

"The movie's seemingly absurd setup works better than you might guess because the filmmakers and actors never take it completely straight-line." -- Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune

"Like all Jerry Bruckheimer films, Gone in 60 Seconds has a slick look but no soul." -- James Berardinelli, Reel Views

"Has the energy of a dead battery." -- Jay Carr, Boston Globe

"This may, in fact, be the junkiest film in history to star three Academy Award winners." -- Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel

"Cage has found a movie to challenge Snake Eyes and 8MM as the dumbest of his career." -- Desson Howe, Washington Post