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List Price: $19.99 | | Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
Salesrank: 25886
Released: June 7, 2005 |
| Our Price: $7.95 |
| Used Price: $2.75 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Fasten your seatbelts for the extended ride of your life in this high-performance, fuel-injected GONE IN 60 SECONDS DIRECTOR'S CUT from producer Jerry Bruckheimer (NATIONAL TREASURE, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL, PEARL HARBOR). Never-before-seen footage adds fuel to this already high-octane action hit starring Nicolas Cage, Robert Duvall, and sexy Angelina Jolie. A legendary car booster (Cage) thought he'd left the fast lane behind him until he's forced out of retirement to save his kid brother from the wrath of an evil mobster. It's nothing less than a full-throttle race to pull off the ultimate car heist: 50 exotic beauties in 24 hours -- and the cops are already onto them!
Description of Gone in 60 Seconds (Director's Cut):
When car nut and aspiring B movie maverick H.B. "Toby" Halicki released his debut film, he gave top billing to his car, a yellow 1973 Ford Mustang named Eleanor. That's a good indication of Halicki's priorities in the original car-crunching, tire-squealing drive-in classic Gone in 60 Seconds. Halicki wrote, produced, starred, and did all of his own extraordinary stunt driving in the picture, the story of a career car thief who makes a deal to steal 48 cars for an overseas smuggler. OK, it's not Shakespeare. The plot is perfunctory at best, and Halicki's all thumbs when it comes to directing his wooden cast, but he gives a crash course in the mechanics of the car-theft biz and tops it off with one of the greatest car chases of all time: a 40-minute finale that roars through five Los Angeles-basin towns and destroys 93 cars in the process. It's a masterpiece of stunt driving, down-and-dirty photography, and sharp, furious cutting; the unsung hero of the picture is editor Warner Leighton, who paces the film perfectly and never lets it stall. Forget the messy Nicolas Cage in-name-only remake, this is outlaw auto cinema at its purest. --Sean Axmaker
Gone in 60 Seconds (Director's Cut) Reviews:
WRECK movie at SPEED of SOUNDtrack 
2009-11-24 - I saw this in a DRIVE-IN theater! I agree w/ the current #1 reviewer: who are the Hi-octane idiots who ruin cherished memories? It's like the re-make of Jonny Quest had the mandatory better-at-everything ultimate-zinger-delivering feminist co-equal-but-more-equal "girl partner".
It's the 21st century, & the only thing that's gotten better is the ability of the studios to wring fans(dribbling out titles, then once you get them all, hey, there's the "Box Set"!), & like here, screwing with what should be sacred. As for the audio engineer's opinion: w/all due respect, I don't want "thunderous V-8s", I want the ORIGINAL VERSION.
I want DVD's in a new format, called UTW ("Un-Tinkered With"). That's the nicer way to say it.
Gage, a great actor 
2009-10-20 - This movie is as good as the rest of gage's movies, lots of action, just enough straight humor, a little drama, as gage does with most of his movies. ( I LOVED IT )
A battle of wits and a change of values in high stakes car theft 
2009-09-18 - Gone in 60 Seconds 2000. A car thief, Kip,in a sophisticated organized crime group makes a mistake while boosting [stealing] a car. The boss of the outfit is a ruthless murderer shipping highly expensive, rare cars overseas and wants to use the bungler Kip as an example and to bribe Memphis, Kip's brother and ex-thief with a reputation as the best to steal 50 rare and expensive cars by Friday morning at 8 AM. Memphis resists and then gives in to snatch his brother from being crushed at the salvage lot. He quickly organizes some of the old gang and some new people with unique skills plus his old girlfriend, Sway,he left when he reformed. The movie depicts the psychology of car thieves and car theft, as well as the unique psychology of the different types of experts in car stealing. It shows the loyalty to family and within a ring of thieves to each other over the law. This is contrasted with the ruthless use of money and power and threat of death by the boss to bully and bribe Memphis and the gang to carry out his high-risk scheme. The risk is heightened because the police who had tried to catch him before he reformed finds out that he is back and is once again involved in car theft. The ruthless boss lays down his terms as allowing Skip to live plus $200,000 with the stipulation that they meet the deadline exactly because that is the time the boat shipping the cars is to leave. The ring plays out the nearly impossible feat under the time pressure and while playing cat and mouse under the eye of the police. During the execution of the last heist, Memphis and his old girlfriend repair their lost love and reunite. After a harrowing last chase where Memphis shows his extraordinary skill and his determination to save his brother, he, nevertheless, winds up with the boss ordering Kip to be murdered anyway because Memphis was 12 minutes late. During a deadly tussle with the boss and his henchmen, the police suddenly enter the scene and the fracas ends with both Memphis and the police pitted against the boss. Memphis saves the policeman's life as he kills the boss. In return, the policeman, seeing Memphis has really reformed and was only back into car stealing to save his brother, decides not to arrest him. As he walks away, Memphis tells the policeman where to find the cars. The gang, having gotten together just to save Kip and for the thrill and comradery of the old car stealing days, has a parting party to celebrate the ordeal and their success, totally unconcerned with not getting the money, illustrating that this crime's appeal is its thrill which is greater even than sex.
The 1970's at wide open throttle!
2009-09-12 - The epic chase scene is just incredible with all out, take no prisoners high speed driving and a little Keystone Cops style humor. The whole movie takes me back to the 70's with the clothes and the hair and the idea that back then anything with less than a V8 was an economy car. You're not going to watching this one for the dialog.
Remastered Gone in 60 Seconds
2009-07-03 - Never another chase scene like this. Filmed where I grew up. I enjoyed JC Agajanian's interview.
Product was in excellent condition and arrived on time.
