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Gone in sixty seconds is exactly how fast the movie will vanish from your memories after you inflict onto yourself the hackneyed pyrotechniques, nonsensical explosions and a grossly ludicrous car chase by watching this movie.
A remake of a 1974 movie, Gone in Sixty Seconds (now do not wonder, even the name is same) is completely devoid of any engrossing plot. Randall "Memphis" Raines (Nicolas Cage) is a retired car thief whose panache in 'boosting' cars and that too in not more than 60 seconds (you time it against an atomic clock) who gives up his profession when his mother asks him to go away as she is scared about his younger brother, Kip (Giovanni Ribisi), who she feels might also walk into his brother's footsteps. His forsaking the profession doesn't change much as Kip resorts to Car larceny only to get in trap of the bad guy. The ransom to save him is 'boosting' of exactly 50 cars (nothing less even in the most trying circumstances) and that too in exactly 3 days (not even a second more in the atomic clock). So Randall has to walk back to save his kin. How does he do that, is what you have to suffer for 1 hr. 57 mins. in this very ironically titled, Gone in Sixty Seconds. And at the end of it you keep on wondering how the police investigator (Delroy Lindo) with his team keep watching the band of thieves in their pursuits and are hopelessly incapable of nabbing them.
In such types of productions histrionics don't really matter. Even though Nicholas Cage offers an average performance. Angelina Jolie was just there, as there has to be some sex appeal to the movie. Delroy Lindo was totally misfit as the helpless (more of a deliberate helplessness) police investigator. There are many others also in this shamelessly wasted cast.
Overall a passable movie only if you have some time to spare to see every thing going in sixty seconds and till you don't suddenly start worrying about your car parked outside the cinema hall.
(Oh boy! Did I review it in sixty seconds?)
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