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Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)

Directed by 
Dominic Sena    
  
Writing credits (WGA) (in credits order) 
Scott Michael Rosenberg   (screenplay) (as Scott Rosenberg) 

 
Toby Halicki   (uncredited) (1974 motion picture) 
  
Cast (in credits order) 
Nicolas Cage ....  Randall "Memphis" Raines  
Angelina Jolie ....  Sara "Sway" Wayland  
Giovanni Ribisi ....  Kip Raines  
Robert Duvall ....  Otto Halliwell  
Delroy Lindo ....  Detective Roland Castlebeck  
Will Patton ....  Atley Jackson  
Chi McBride ....  Donny Astricky  
rest of cast listed alphabetically  
Scott Caan ....  Tumbler  
James Duval ....  Freb  
Christopher Eccleston   
Trevor Goddard   
Vinnie Jones ....  The Sphinx  
Timothy Olyphant ....  Detective Drycoff  
William Lee Scott ....  Toby  
Kevin Weisman ....  Intern  
Kevin West ....  Intern  
  
Produced by 
Jerry Bruckheimer    
Denice Shakarian Halicki   (executive)  
Jonathan Hensleigh   (executive)  
Chad Oman   (executive)  
Mike Stenson    
Robert Stone (V)   (executive)  
Webster Stone   (executive)  
Barry H. Waldman   (executive)  
  
Original music by 
Paul Linford   (additional music)  
Trevor Rabin    
  
Cinematography by 
Paul Cameron (II)    
  
Film Editing by 
Tom Muldoon    
  
Production Design by 
Jeff Mann (II)    
  
Art Direction 
Andrew Laws    
  
Costume Design by 
Marlene Stewart    
  
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director 
Philip C. Pfeiffer ....  second unit director  
David H. Venghaus Jr. ....  second assistant director  
  
Sound Department 
Donovan Dear ....  boom operator  
Peter J. Devlin ....  sound mixer  
Benjamin Patrick ....  sound mixer: second unit  
Von Varga ....  cable person  
  
Special Effects 
Jammie Friday ....  digital compositing supervisor  
Kyle J. Healey ....  art/previs manager  
John Kilkenny ....  visual effects producer  
Allyse Manoff ....  digital effects producer  
Michael Meinardus (II) ....  special effects coordinator  
Jennifer Meislohn ....  assistant coordinator  
Jamie Rama ....  illustrator  
  
Stunts 
John Cade ....  stunts: car jump rigger  
Jimmy N. Roberts ....  stunts  
Eddie Yansick ....  stunt double: Mr. Cage  
Dick Ziker ....  stunts  
  
Other crew 
Fanée Aaron ....  set designer  
Bruce Bellamy ....  gang boss  
Michael Brewer ....  assistant location manager  
Jose Cabrera ....  production secretary  
Anne Clements ....  assistant art co-ordinator  
Kim Coleman ....  casting associate  
Shawn Ensign ....  company grip  
Perri Fichtner ....  assistant location manager  
Rachael Gallaghan ....  production secretary  
Anna E. Hayward ....  set production assistant  
Steele Hunter ....  company grip  
Phill Kane ....  assistant location manager  
Valerie Y.O. Kim ....  location manager  
Ernest H. Lauterio ....  key craft service  
Angie Luckey ....  assistant editor  
Stephen Mapel ....  location manager  
Michele Mehaffey ....  production assistant  
Merrick Morton ....  still photographer  
Philip C. Pfeiffer ....  director of photography: second unit  
Angie Popko ....  set production assistant  
Steve Reinhardt ....  assistant gaffer  
Dylan Rush ....  set lighting (uncredited)  
Rick Schuler II ....  location manager  
Laura Sode-Matteson ....  supervising location manager  
Cheree Welsh ....  art department co-ordinator  
Brian Williamson ....  music editor  
Brian Wittle ....  boom operator: second unit  
 
 

                           GONE IN 60 SECONDS
                    A film review by Christopher Null
                      Copyright 2000 filmcritic.com
                             filmcritic.com

You are Nicolas Cage. After clawing your way through B-movies to an Academy Award for Leaving Las Vegas, what do you do? You take part after part in a progressively worsening slate of action films (pausing only for the even worse melodrama City of Angels), bottoming out with Snake Eyes and 8MM. Your action career is at an obvious end. So do you go back to the drama you can pull off so well?

No! You take a role in Gone in 60 Seconds, and try to extend your movie muscle even further! Here's a movie that's pure, unabashed Hollywood: Randall "Memphis" Raines (Cage), in order to convince a mean criminal to spare the life of his brother (Giovanni Ribisi), must BLOW UP 50 cars in the next 72 hours!

Er, wait a sec. Steal. STEAL 50 cars. You see, Memphis is The Best of The Best of L.A. car thieves. Retired, of course, but a fabulous car thief. Naturally, kid brother follows in Memphis's footsteps but gets himself into trouble, so Memphis has to come out of retirement to save his butt. It's a plot so insanely stupid it can only mean one thing: You are watching a Jerry Bruckheimer movie. (See also: Armageddon.)

The only part of 60 Seconds less believable than Ribisi and Cage being related is Cage and nubile vixen Angelina Jolie being former lovers. In the film, Jolie plays the hiply-named "Sway", a likewise retired car "boost" whose blonde dreadlocks make her both a blaring "Look at Me!" siren during night jobs as well as a fire hazard.

Naturally, I expect Gone in 60 Seconds to appeal to audiences for the one (and only) reason it appealed to me: Because there are lots and lots of car chases with lots and lots of cool cars. Naturally, Memphis and crew are not stealing 50 Hyundais. They're stealing Hummers, Ferraris, Porsches, Aston Martins, Corvettes, T-Birds, and a mythical 1967 Shelby Mustang GT 500 that becomes Memphis's Moby Dick.

The cars are spun out, jumped, peeled out, jumped some more, and accelerated to ungodly speeds. Surprisingly, director Dominic Sena (credited mostly with commercials) pulls this off with a remarkably low body count, which is admirable.

Gone in 60 Seconds is ultimately a feast for the eyes provided you turn off your brain before you sit down to watch it. Not to mention, you'll be surprised how hard it is not to challenge the chump in the car next to you to a little drag race on the ride home.

RATING:  **1/2
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MPAA Rating: PG-13

Director: Dominic Sena Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer, Mike Stenson Writer: Scott Michael Rosenberg Starring: Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi, Robert Duvall, Delroy Lindo, Will Patton, Chi McBride, Scott Caan, James Duval, Christopher Eccleston, Trevor Goddard, Vinnie Jones, Timothy Olyphant, William Lee Scott




Have I seen this movie: No
Will I see It: Yes
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