Gone in Sixty Seconds 2000 [alternative name Gone in 60 Seconds] by AverageMansReviews

Gone in Sixty Seconds 2000 [alternative name Gone in 60 Seconds] by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/shooting/stabbing/drugs/animal cruelty/biting/burning/medical.

One last ride: roughly this is how things go down; Kip Raines [Giovanni Ribisi] a carjacker in control of his own crew of carjackers as well, finds himself in a massive ditch owing Raymond Calitri/"The Carpenter" [Christopher Eccleston] 50 cars by the end of the week. But The Carpenter is let's just say far then convinced that Kip and his crew are able to pull this off his associate Atley Jackson [Will Patton] goes to seek the one man that could possibly pull this off with his old crew Randall "Memphis" Raines/Roger [Nicholas Cage;] which he is a retired carjacker and has been out of the game for 6 years, but is the bigger brother to Kip. Memphis goes and tells their mother Helen Raines [Grace Zabriskie] what is going on and you may have to break his promise to her to get Kip back, which she does wants him back. But on top of that he has two detectives on his back one he has a history with Detective Roland Castlebeck [Delroy Lindo] and his partner Detective Drycoff [Timothy Olyphant] and if that wasn't where is enough a member of Memphis' old crew which he now needs help from happens to be his ex-girlfriend Sara 'Sway' Wayland [Angelina Jolie,] which he also left when he gave up his previous life, but in fairness and balance he did ask her at the time but she wasn't ready to give up that lifestyle.

The pacing of this 118 minutes film is like the rest of this film everything about it is; it knows what it is and it sticks to plan which leads to a positive result.

In the opening credits we have this vague back story on this family known as Raines, I say it is vague because it is all done by photographs throughout so I just wanted to cover my back by using the word "vague," but this is good art.

The action is mostly in vehicles and other little bits and pieces, yes because they are in vehicles they are of a high octane action variety, there is also consistent presence of comedy now and again such as Memphis going undercover posing as a very wealthy individual which he takes the name off this Car Dealer [Unknown performer] that he speaks to find out what else he has in his warehouse or later on Donny Astricky [Chi McBride] and Freb [James Duval] have just hijacked this car and when they come to their first stop as  Astricky has his window down he gets a gun pointed at his face through the window as this other carjacker wants position of this car, but he soon comes to realise that he has missed with the wrong individual Astricky in a nutshell takes care of this individual by basically saying It is easy to pull a gun on anybody you don't know the first thing about stealing a car, you need a role model.

Character developments and performances: their character types are safe and reliable, they are what they are, but however there is good chemistry throughout this cast; this is a cast performance.

This film receives: 7/10, this film is good from the very beginning it knows what it can offer its viewers, which is straightforward high octane, now and again consistently comical action film. This film does have awards accredited including negative ones as well. But I will begin with the positive ones; Won 9 that include Blockbuster Entertainment Awards 2001; Blockbuster Entertainment Award Favorite Actress - Action Angelina Jolie. Nominees 6 that include from the same award ceremony/event. The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards 2000; Stinker Awards; Winners Worst Screenplay for a Film Grossing More than $100 Million Using Hollywood Math Scott Rosenberg and Most Intrusive Musical Score Trevor Rabin, Nominee; Stinker Award Worst On-Screen Hairstyle Angelina Jolie and finally for some strange reason these are accredited here; Yoga Awards 2001; Yoga Awards Worst Foreign Actress Angelina Jolie For The Bone Collector and Girl, Interrupted.