Hi, my name is Simon and I enjoy going to the pub and clubs as do most of us youths. However I like ...
Hi, my name is Simon and I enjoy going to the pub and clubs as do most of us youths. However I like to play badminton to keep fit and to keep my beer belly to a minimum
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Gone in 60 seconds in my view was the blockbuster of 2000, which is saying something since it was up against some stiff competition.
Nicolas Cage stars in this as Randolph "Memphis" Raines and was ones a notorious car thief in Longbeach. His little brother Kip has grown up and is now a car thief as Memphis once was. Kip takes a boost which to us people that aren’t car thieves means steal a lot of cars for an order from someone else. This boost happens to be the order from Columbia. The bloke that took the order Ramon Callitri is a British person who is fleeing the law in Britain because of his crime dealings and has come to Longbeach to do business. Callitri hires Kip to steel 50 cars for him so he can satisfy his Colombian friends. Kip is a little careless and then ends up being followed back to the warehouse where they are hiding all the stolen vehicles. Kip and his friends manage to escape and avoid arrest but the cars are taken to the police impound. Callitri, is then what you could say rather unimpressed, and so takes Kip hostage while one of his cronies goes to Memphis.
Memphis, who has stopped stealing cars because of what Kip may grow up to be, is now running a go-carting school for kids is found by Callitri’s cronie and is taken to see Callitri. Callitri then gives him three options.
1) To kill Callitri and then have himself killed aswell as his brother. 2) To refuse the job and then be killed anyway aswell as his brother. 3) To take the job steal some cars, earn some money and live to fight another day.
Memphis takes the job and by this time has 3 days to steal 50 cars and have them on a ship by Friday morning 8 am. Memphis the goes about getting some help to steal these cars and quickly re-assembles his old car stealing team which includes Vinnie Jones to help him steal these 50 cars. Also in the team is Memphis’s old girl friend Sway which makes thing at times a little awkward.
They have to steal 50 top of the range cars and have 3 days to do it right, the thing is they can’t just get any 50 cars that they want they have to steal the ones on this list kindly given to them by Callitri. So they set out and steal all the cars but one. This last car is Eleanor Memphis’s favourite car which is a ’67 Shelby GT 500 Ford Mustang. However every time he has tried to steal this car in the past something has always gone wrong and so that is why it was left until last. He manages to steal the car but in getting it to the ship he encounters a few problems with the police, road blocks, and other traffic accidents. I haven’t gone into much detail at this point so I don’t spoil it for anybody that may want to watch it.
He manages to deliver this car just about in one piece give or take a wing mirror and some paint work, but anyway he ends up eight minutes late and Callitri is looking for his head and then he and Callitri end up shooting at each other and then the police get involved. However the policeman that gets involved has been trying to catch Memphis even before he gave up stealing cars and is rather annoyed at this point, so he rushes in trying to break things up and ends up getting involved. However Callitri and this policeman end up face to face and Callitri is about to kill him when Memphis turns up and kicks him off this balcony on to the floor below and so he dies., Memphis is let off Kip is alive but the policeman still hasn’t got Memphis. But all is well that ends well. And at the end Otto one of Memphis’s mates who does up cars offers to do up the mustang for him which by this point Kip has bought for Memphis as a token of appreciation for saving his life.
I hope I haven’t spoilt anything for you by writing this and I strongly suggest that you hire it and watch it because I promise you that you won’t be disappointed.
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Great review on a superb film ~ Thanks Versatile :O)
niclemamy 13.03.2001 00:33
I've heard(and read)alot about this movie and plan to see it as soon as possible,I love Nichola Cage movies.I don't think he's done a bad one yet!great op:)
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