| Remember The Dukes of Hazzard, the TV show centered on a couple of rednecks driving circles around a couple of dimwitted sheriff's deputies? Well, change the setting to a big city and you have a feel for Gone in 60 Seconds (Touchstone Pictures; rated PG-13 for violence, sex, and language), in which Nicolas Cage and Giovanni Ribisi are this decade's answer to Bo and Luke Duke. This time, our heroes are professional car thieves. When the younger brother messes up a "boost," the film's European crime lord (Christopher Eccleston) threatens to kill them if they don't steal 50 cars in less than four days. So the pair lines up a gang (including a wasted Robert Duvall) to help them with their grand theft auto bender. (It's OK, according to this movie, since they're forced into it.) We're then treated to a spree of car chases, explosions, and jump cuts, all courtesy of filmmaker Jerry Bruckheimer, the man behind movies like Beverly Hills Cop, Con Air, and Armageddon. But neither the cars nor the characters are very interesting. This remake of a forgotten 1974 action movie plays like a 1980s rock video, which may help some viewers ignore the inanity they see on the screen. |
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