Shoot yourself before watching this

Ugh! That is the only word that best describes this movie. It totally, completely sucks. Do not, repeat, do not watch this movie. In fact, when it comes up on your TV screens, switch it off. I promise you, watching a blank gray picture tube will be much more entertaining and thought provoking than "Gone is sixty seconds". Promise.

When I first heard about the movie and the cast, I thought that okay, seems like a watchable movie. I wasn't expecting a movie about car thieves to break new ground in cinematography or anything, I just wanted it to be entertaining. View it while eating popcorn, go home and forget it. Unfortunately, its so bad that you feel like forgetting it right in the middle of viewing it.

Why is it so bad? Firstly, there is no plot. Okay, okay, there is a plot, but it seems to have been written by a five year old kid. There's this bunch of car thieves who go around stealing cars. Thats it. I just described the entire story line. That didn't take very long did it? :-)

Next the acting. Really, what a waste of talented actors. Nicholas Cage is immensly gifted (watch "Leaving Las Vegas" or "Moonlight" to see what I mean). Unfortunately, he doesn't get a chance to display his talents in this particular movie. Note that his acting in this movie is not bad -- he plays his role well. Unfortunately, its not a very good role. Not his fault. Angelina Jolie also carries off her role with elan, but again, the entire cast has very constricting, limiting roles.

Now come the cars. And of course the car chases. Both of which fall short. You go to view a movie involving car thieves you expect to see a lot of cool cars, right? Wrong. There are cool cars, but again, the director botches this up. He just focuses upon them for a few brief instances now and then, glamorizing them, but not glamorizing them enough. And regarding the car chases, well, the less said the better. Pretty much every other car chase in every other movie is better.

There is one, just one good five minutes car chase scene right at the very end. Its a little exaggerated as well, but what the hell, at least its watchable. In fact, a better way to watch this movie would be to fast forward right to the end, watch the car chase scene. Then rewind back five minutes to the starting of the chase. Then watch it again. Then rewind back again. Then watch it ..... Keep on doing so for one and a half hours. They should have done this for the real movie as well. Shown only the last car chase scene again and again. I'm sure that it would have been a much much bigger hit.

The only positive aspect about this movie could be that they could probably use it to torture prisoners and convicts in jail to get them to spill the beans. I mean, I mean, picture the following conversation:

COP: Tell us who was behind the big drug deal, or we'll unleash our secret weapon!
BIG BAD GUY: Ha! You'll have already beaten me up, electrocuted me, kicked me, insulted me. You think I'm afraid of anything! Ha! Uneducated cretins! I'll never tell!
(The cop goes and switches on the TV set. Nicholas Cage comes on screen. Gone in sixty seconds starts)
COP: Tell us, or we'll force you to watch this!
BIG BAD GUY: (bucking around in his seat) No, no, no! Please no! Take it away from my eyes! I can't stand it! Okay, okay, I'll tell! I'll tell everything! Just take if away from my eyes! I can't stand it much longer! Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh.........
(The two cops are laughing and slapping each other on their backs)

Yes sir, this movie could certainly help solve a lot of crimes. So instead of making fun of it, maybe we should just ..........

THANK THEM FOR MAKING SUCH A GREAT MOVIE