Monday, April 10, 2006

REVIEW: Gone in Sixty Seconds (1974)

Two years or so ago, the B-Movie Board held one of it's periodic Movie Swap challenges. The premise was simple. You were designated a partner, and got to choose a movie for them to view and review. My victim... sorry, happy recipient... was Son of Spam. The flick I chose for him? The original

Gone in Sixty Seconds.

He still hasn't forgiven me.

And so, in a gesture of peace and reconciliation, I'm now about to embark on a Skeeter Double Feature. Three hours of squealing tyres, twisted metal, cringe-inducing dialogue and eye-maiming fashion mistakes. The H.B Halicki masterworks that are Gone in Sixty Seconds and The Junkman. I'll probably only review the first flick, unless I get really, REALY inspired though. (How many ways can I say "A car crashes. Boom."?)

Buckle up... it's time to head out on the highway.

The Highway to Hell, if Son of Spam is to be believed.

GONE IN 60 SECONDS (1974)

Welcome to L.A, let's drive: We open (abrubtly) with driving footage. Guess you have to cater to your target audience. There's a little bit of scene-setting thanks to a helpful radio D.J as we watch from the drivers POV. (Giving me flashbacks to the opening scene of The Creeping Terror. The most interesting thing I noted about the shot was the fact that Our Presumed Hero has a real fetish for sunglasses... there's like, five pairs lined up on the dashboard. As we hear a brief snippet of the Gone in Sixty Seconds country-ish theme song, the creidts appear. (Including the writing, acting, producing and directing nods to H.B Halicki, of course.) One credit was fairly noteworthy.

Starring "Eleanor": Just "Eleanor"? Eleanor who? Eleanor Rigby? Eleanor Roosevelt? It would become clear eventually, though. (Well, as clear as any plot point was in this film, anyway.)

Off the tracks already: Our film proper begins with the sight of police investigating a derailed train. (And after watching news reports of train derailments in both England and Australia in the last week, that probably had a little more dramatic impact on me than it might have had previously.) Dialogue kind-of clues us in on one of the characters being an insurance investigator. Although it's not really obvious as to who it is, due to the movies recurring theme of over-dubbing the dialogue over the action, without a single closeup to point out who the hell is speaking at any given time. After a minute or two of confusing me, the film cuts to...

Trashed Cars 'R' Us: I think this was some sort of police auction, but once again, it's difficult to tell. (H.B Halicki: Coherant Narrative Structure is my Flaming Albino Heffalump.) Someone, possibly one of the films characters, buys a dented-to-hell car, license plate 000-GAL. The Big Zoom on the plate informs us this is important. Somehow. If I sound slightly confused at this early stage, it's probably because... well, I am.

Overdubbed Exposition: For the next few minutes, we watch a bunch of greasemonkeys in a garage, stripping down Triple-O Gal. (Great, I sound like I'm reviewing bad James Bond-Parody Porn.) We're informed that the garage buys trashed cars, then removes and the serial numbers, transferring them into stolen cars. Stolen BY the mechanics, in fact. Talk about cutting out the middleman. As the new car is re-assmbled, there's a long, slow zoom in on the 000-GAL plate. I guess it's still important. [B}The Beginners Guide to Grand Theft Auto: And so, we watch as a car is removed from a parking lot, well inside of sixty seconds. In fact, we watch so closely, I think I could potentially boost a motor myself. It's the Reefer Madness of car theft movies! Afterwards, we introduce...

Senor Vila... um, where is he?: In another scene where the dialogue appears to have been lopped over random footage, we meet the mysterious Mr. Villa. Mysterious in a "Who the hell is he, and what is he doing in our movie?" kind of way. I THINK he's the out-of-focus guy in the bright jumpsuit during the unexpected "flying boat arrival" scene. Anyway, (I'm going to be using that word a LOT, I can tell.) he appears to be a "Mr Big" type, delivering a list of high-performance cars he wants our Kinda-Heroes to boost and deliver. Finally, we arrive at a scene in which the characters are actually visible while they deliver the dialogue. Including the major player, Maindrian Pace. (Played by H.B. Halicki himself, of course.) He also wrote the script, meaning we get to see him...

Stumbling over his own dialogue!: Whoa, not one but TWO bungled lines in close sucession. Well, maybe he was going for a documentary-style approach to the film. Or more likely, just didn't have the time and budget for a re-shoot. Abrubtly, we cut to a wedding. And not just a wedding. it's a...

Wedding of Exposition!: Try to picture this. Footage of a lavish wedding, with all our Felonious Mechanics as groomsmen. Now remove the sound normally associated with a wedding, and insert a huge chunk of expositionary dialog over the top. The effect is somewhat disconcerting. Especially when you take into account that it's a German-themed wedding. Leading to a rather sarcastic comment in my notes.

German people ROCK!: Ahh, leiderhosen, silly dancing and huge beer steins. Two out of three of those things are not really my bag, y'know? Anyway, (Told ya.) the gist of the conversation tells us that the gang has to steal, strip and deliver better than 40 high-performance cars in three days. This leads to friction as the Blushing Groom is told to postpone his honeymoon and get back to the garage to help out. (Yeah, you'd think he'd have better things to tinker about with than cars for a while.)

Pimpin' in the Park: After much wedding footage, we cut to a park. Here we see two people wandering around in clothes that would be terrifying, if Mr. Halicki hadn't decided to shoot the entire scene out-of-focus. As it is, they're only mildly horrific. The one I'm guessing is Maindrian looks like he's heading downtown to pimp his hos. (I was hoping they'd stop for a rest, letting me use the pun "Pimp-nic". No such luck, sadly.) This pointless scene over, we head out to LAX.

No dialogue in the White Zone!: *sigh* First the film has me complaining about over-dubbed dialogue. Now they decide to record the dialogue while filming in the street outside an International Airport. With the one microphone seemingly placed in the neighbouring county. Great, it's a silent movie all of a sudden. (Although the sound of departing planes and the PA announcements come through loud and clear.) Using my lip-reading skills and extensive mime-training (Okay, not really.) I tried to make some sense of the scene. Basically, the crew see off the happy couple, then steal a few cars from right in front of the terminal. One of the lads makes a Car Thief Faux Pas, however, trying to steal a car with someone still in it. That's got to lose him points for style. About now I glanced at the video case. Hmmm, originally relased in 1984. Wait a second?

This is the 80'S??!!: Huge afros, ties you could serve a three-course meal on, plaid pants you could play checkers on? Slight typo, Kineski Kult Video. Try 1974.

Pumpkin: Maindrian s' main... well, something-or-other is introduced about here. Pumpkin is the only female member of the vehicular heist crew. There was also a female present in the park, but with Blur-O-Vision in full effect, it could have been anyone. There's a ton of yakity-yak as we pad out the running time a little. (Somehow neglecting to clue us in on one important detail... the fact that the cars are codenamed with girls names. This was made a hell of a lot clearer in the recent remake. Too bad the remake somehow re-made the film without ever realising it was a car-chase flick. One brief car chase in the dying minutes? A token effort, in my book.)

CB's and Stock (Car) Footage: Yep, it's the 70's all right. More cars are jacked, although not until we've watched a bunch of midget cars sliding around the speedway. This scene does prove the fact that 1974 was...

A very Goodyear: ...as we get a couple of shots of the Goodyear Blimp. In a funny bit, its scrolling sign is giving the stock-car fans a warning about locking their cars. (Or else it'll be "...gone in sixty seconds") Methinks Mr Halicki has friends in the blimping industry. (And as we all know, blimpin' ain't easy.)

The Uglymooners: That night (Possibly, as the somewhat muddled storyline makes the timeline dificult to tie down.) we join a bickering married couple. (Man, even hair curlers were ugly in the 70's!) After a little marital screeching, hubby gets off his duff to kick the mutt out. And looking down his driveway, he notices that...

They got Eleanor!: Yes, "Eleanor" is the codename for his car. (A canary-yellow '73 Ford Mustang) The outraged Mustang-owner quickly grabs the keys to his OTHER car and gives chase. (One reason this movie coulnd't have been made in a Communist country. USA! USA! Etc.) And our Big Chase begins... oh, wait, this is just a mini-chase to whet our appetite for the vehicular mayhem to come.

Cops!: Bad boys, bad boys... whatca gonna do? Well, they're going to give chase, naturally enough. It's your typical late-night suburban chase scene. (As seen on every episode of "Worlds Scariest Police Chases vol I-XXIV".) There's some minor crashage as Mr. Uglymooner gets the right-of-way rules all screwed up. The cops quickly pull him over and slap the ol' wrist-jewelry on him, allowing our hero to...

Doubleback again.: So that when the cops return to the house to check up on his "stolen" Mustang, it's parked back in rhe garage. The scene fades out after a shot of the guys oblivious wife. I think that was for Comedic Effect. Or something. We cut to the next morning, and get a way-too-close-closeup of Pumpkins'...

B-52 Hair!: Now THAT's a 'do! There's primitive tribes that are probably still worshipping that hairstyle! Anyway, we stay with Pumpkin for a bit, as the gang steals limosines. (Through the tactic of ordering cars, then swiping them while the drivers look for their passengers.) This was obviously before the police could trace calls. (AKA: The Pre-Cellphone Era.) There's also another reason to try to forget the 1970's in this sequence.

UGLY '70's Limos!: Well, thats chunky as hell, and that's a lovely shade of powder blue. And there's asomething that looks like a stretched hearse. Was there ANYTHING that wasn't a freaking eyesore between 1959 and 1990? Oh, that's right, there was. Christie Brinkley, circa 1987. Mmmmm. Unfortunately, this movie drags me kicking and screaming back to '74 with...

Crochet Boobie Sacks?: Geez, that womans going to catch pnuemonia of the breasts in that ugly-fuck outfit!

Tiger in your tank?: We pause for some comic relief as the token Black Mechanic tries to rip off a car from an exclusive club... only to find out the rich white lady has a young tiger in the backseat.(??) Geez, and I jump when a pitbull starts barking at me in the supermarket carpark. One quick Jesse Owens impression later, we move from the hilarity to...

Car Theft for Dummies: Okay, someone get me a bent piece of metal, and a screwdriver... This movie has given me a new career path.

Triple-O Gals' Last Ride!: Back at the ol' Ranch... okay, garage... there's a Drama brewing. It turns out the stripped-down stolen car we saw at the start of the flick has been spotted on a car lot. In kind of a boneheaded move for a professional car-theft ring, someone left the original license plate on the car. (Someone dock that guy a weeks illeagally untaxed pay!) But, never fear, Maindrian has a plan! Since it involves stealing the car with a towtruck under cover of broad daylight, I'm wondering whether they should have gone with Plan B.

Stealth Truck: Hmm, either the sound went out again, or that guy has Whisper Mode on his vehicle. Meanwhile, a Security Guard arrives and tries to block the towtruck in. The Greasemonkey hits the gas and it's a...

CHASE SCENE!: They try to up the ante on this chase. First off, its car vs.towtruck this time around. And secondly, 000-Gal is hitched to the back of the towtruck, careening all over the road as the driver corners. And thirdly, they start throwing in the Classic Chase Scene Staple Elements.

Oil Barrel Cliche!: Well, it's not quite a fruit cart, but those empty oil drums sure go a'flying when you hit them, don't they? They continue on a-ways. (C'mon, YOU try reviewing a car chase! It'd be like reviewing the action in a Rambo movie. "Things blow up, go Boom".) Eventually the Security Guards' car comes to a sudden stop, courtesy of...

More barrels!: As the left-in-the-dust flatfoot watches his quarry drive off, we get our first good look at him. My first thought was "Whoa, Randy Quaid lost weight!". But I'm sure the resembelance was just a wacky coincidence.

Bye-bye, 000-GAL!: And so we watch as 000-GAL gets trashed and compacted at the local junkyard. So does this mean this film (Which is kind of like Petrolhead Pornography.) just turned into a Vehicular Snuff Film? At the very least this means that this plot cul-de-sac has been resolved and we can get back to the main business at hand. Eleanor is still proving difficult to aquire, despite the crew spotting yellow Mustangs all over the city. But suddenly, the plot (And that's a lose interpretation of the word.) gets rudely derailed by a Celebrity Cameo Appearance!

Parnelli Jones!: WHO? I initally could only draw one conclusion about Parnelli.

Mr. Jones is not an actor, I think.: Who's your drama coach, Linnea Quigley? EMOTE, dude! Once we move into Parnellis place of business, things become clearer... he's a race car driver. A real one. At this stage, we also got our first full-length shot of him.

PLAIDelli!: Arrrgh! Baby Blue plaid flares? Screw you, 1974! After much banter between Parnelli (Who has had a car stolen) and "insurance investigator" Maindrian (Who stole it.), the cameo is over. I think the scene was supposed to be comic, but the lack of a wah-wah-wah score confused me. Either that or I was supposed to yell "It's Parnelli Jones, yeeha." and then flip the channel back to the NASCAR Left-Turn 500 while scarfing Cheetos. No, I'm not from America, thanks for asking. Our next vignette concerns...

Lyle Waggoner and the Comic Relief Stoner: Okay, not exactly. In fact it's Lyle Waggoners' CAR and the comic Relief Stoner. Lyles car joins the MIA list for L.A's motor vehicles, while the Stoner gets about a minute to try to amuse us with his heart-warming "Got any reds?" catchphrase. Okay, your Sixty Seconds is up. You're Gone!

Manta!: That note was subtitled 'Th' Hell", as a "Manta" was a bizarre-looking supercar that appeared to have been moulded out of plastic. (A full-sized Matchbox Car was my first impression.) One quick test-drive drive-off later, the Manta is secured. God, this is enthralling viewing. I mean it, I can hardly tear my eyes away from the screen... ooh, look, I found a fifty-cent piece under the sofa cushions!

Junk in the Trunk In yet another barely-necessary plot twist, the gang boost a car with a trunk full of heroin. (Identified as such by the only black guy after one quick taste. Samuel L. Jacksons' character in Die Hard: With a Vengance would NOT be pleased.) There's a lively debate as the gang decides what to do with what's later described as "...a million dollars worth of heroin!". Or possibly, eleven dollars worth of high-grade flour. Suddenly, there's a knock at the door. Oh no, it's the pigs!

Inopportune Raid! Sgt Hawkins: Man, isn't that just typical? The cops ALWAYS show up mere moments after I drop a huge bag of smack on the floor. I was fairly confused about this scene for a while, as all the mechanics greet Sgt. Hawkins like an old friend. I originally noted "Sgt. Hawkins, Dirty Cop." Then, as the greasemonkeys scramble to cover the pile of incriminating evidence, I scrubbed that out and wrote "Sgt Hawknis, Incompentant Cop". I mean, just because your'e busy with a car-theft crime wave, it doesn't make you incapable of spotting half a kilo of horse lying on the floor of a relativly clean garage. (Complete with plastic bag sticking out the top.) After the Sarge leaves, Maindrian kicks the rest of the crew out and decides how to best deal with the drugs. His solution?

Viking Longcar?: Yes, it's a Buick Barbie! So long, one million dollars!

Eleanors' a bitch!: Returning to our story in progress, the crew have assembled all the cars bar one. Eleanor remains at large, however. So it's time for a CHASE SC... oh, wait, no it's not. It's time for a...

Musical Interlude: Oh, joy. Country music. My favourite. And we're going to get to listen to pretty much every single note of "Lois Lanes' Blues". (Which is NOT a blues song.) And what happens during this song? Well, what DOESN'T happen? (Action, that's what.) In fact, all that really happens is that Pumpkin smokes and Maindrian walks. I'm serious, it's three minutes of Maindrian walking along a row of cars, intercut with Pumpkin smoking while looking pensive. ("Pensive" is a synonym for "Bored", right?) Once again, the film confused me. At first I thought Maindrian was casing a garage, looking for an "Eleanor". (And taking his damn fool time about it, too!) And then the Manta hove into view. Ahh, so he's in his OWN garage, thinking about... things. In reality, it's actually a show-off shot, designed to showcase all the expensive cars at once. The Manta still looks like someone melted a yellow Lamborghini, though.

Doublecross! After the semi-melodic twiddling that is "Lois Lane' Blues", we cut to one of the mechanics. (He's the one who wanted to sell the smack, and went ballistic when he found out it had been burnt. I'd call him "Sore Loser Guy", but as this is his final appearance in the film, there's not much point, really.) He's still pretty miffed about the whole affair, and vents by siccing the cops on Maindrian , letting them know about the final attempt to boost an Eleanor. And so the LAPD set up a...

Rapid Stakeout!: Who knew you could arrange stakeouts on twenty minutes notice? Me neither. Regardless, a pair of undercover cops spot Maindrian enter a parking building. At least, I figured out at length it was Maindrian , as for some reason he pulls off this heist in a disguise. (And after nearly an hour of un-connected dialgue, I wasn't sure if the grey-haired guy with the porno moustache was just one of the other mechanics i'd fprgotten, or Our Hero with talc in his 'do.) Anway, (There's that word again.) he eventually emerges in a brand-new Mustang. Seconds before the car alarm he wasn't aware it had goes off. The cops call for backup, Maindrian sees them coming...

AND WE'RE OFF!: It's time for the Money Sequence, folks! For the remaining forty minutes we're going to watch the Ultimate Chase Scene rip through five cities.. (Or what H.B. Halicki probably intended to be the Ultimate Chase Scene, anyway.) My remaining review could simply read "Screech. Crash. Vroom." But in the interests of completeness, I'll soldier on, listing the Major Events and Chase Scene Cliches as they come to hand. And the first event that happens is...

Sofa!: What the HELL does that mean? I assume Maindrian hit a sofa, but why I added the emphatic exclamation mark is anyone's guess. Maybe it ran out in front of his car like a startled deer, or something.

Dents go in, dents go out!: Maindrian dings his Mustang pretty early in the chase, and for the most part it's consistent in how much damage it's sustained. However, at the very start of the chase there's a huge rent in the car that appears and vanishes at will. I guess he carjacked Christine.

Pre-anti lock brakes: We get a display of Synchronised Donut-Pulling as Maindrian and the cops swerve all over the damn place for awhile. Traction control was obviously a decade or so away, too. (Fishtail City, folks.)

Sidewalk Cliche!: Well, if you dont want to get run down, stay off the sidewalk during the chase scene, pedestrians! As they burn rubber down the pavement, they meet L.A's...

Crazy Old Lady!: She proceeds to bash each car as it passes with her umbrella. Well, glad someone's doing something proactive instead of just fleeing like a chicken. The chase suddenly seems to come to an unexpectedly quick ending as Maindrian is forced to...

Park it in the Park: There's a tense-ish standoff as the cops pull their guns on Maindrian . (Yep, it's L.A, all right!) Luckily for our hero, the one pedrestrain blocking his exit loses his nerve and bails. And we're off again! About now we start cutting to on-the-street news reports and interviews. (Quick work by the press in those pre-cellphone days.) One witness tells the TV guy there was...

20-30 cars? BS!: Way to count, two-eyes! At this stage, there's been three cars in the chase, tops. (A fact demonstrated by a wide shot showing all three cop cars at once.) It's about here that I started formulating a theory about the film. I'll sum it up at the end of the review. But anyway, throught the rest of the chase we'll be cutting back and forth, showing the consequences of the various crash-ees. Points for realism, but it did get a shade distracting after a while.

Nose-to-tail-to-tail-to...: We celebrate the chase leaving one city by witnessing a multi-car fender-bender on a major bridge. That's going to cause a tailback.

Car decap!: Remember that James Bond flick where Roger Moore keeps driving even after his car gets cut in half after a collision? Same here, except the car is (more logically) non-mobile after Maindrian bisects it. Also taken out are a couple taking the...

Testdrive from hell!: "I changed my mind, honey, let's NOT buy what's left of this car."

Reason for pursuit... Unknown.": This line was repeated twice during the film. You'd think the cops who initiated the chase might have reported the reason WHY at some stage. Then again, by this stage there's about 147 charges of dangerous driving that could be leveled against Maindrian . As the chase enters a construction zone, we meet for the first time a carload of...

Bruthas! (But why?): This group of guys show up several times in the chase. At first, they seem totally unconnected to anything that's happening, and since their dialogue is B)Seemingly improvised, B) Constant overlapping each others and C) Seems to consist soley of the word "Man", their comedic(?) potential quickly faded.

Driving in circles: The chase scene kind of stalls at this juncture, with endless shots of Eleanor and Co. doing wheelies in the dusty construction zone. Man, this is going to be a dull review if I dont speed things up. Okay, hold tight, I'm hitting Fast Forward Mode.

Parked Car Abuse: DING!

Unexpected Traffic Accident SCREECHTHUD!:

Dumptruck Dodgems: BANGCLONGDING!

Door-Ectomy Cliche!: "Don't open the d..."CRASH! "..oor."

The Bruthas Return: "Yo man, great party last night, man. Man, that was great, man. Man."

Fruit.. Uh, Shopping Cart Cliche: Well, it LOOKED like there was fruit in it, at least.

All That buildup for that? : The Carload of Bros finally meets up with Maindrian ... and is instantly knocked off the road, hitting a parked car. Well, that was an anticlimax. Directly after comes one of the strangest moments of the film.

We pause for a word from our sponser: Suddenly, we're at a building dedication in Carson City. The MC proceeds to do a quick Tourist Board-type advert for Carson City, even going so far as to quote it's economic figures at us.(!) Man, the things you have to do to get permission to crash cars in Carson City, huh? There's even a brief appearance by the (then) actual Mayor of Carson City. Maindrian barrels on by, and the whole incident is quickly forgotten. Onwards!

Balsa wood Barrier Cliche!: SMASH! CLATTER!

Caddy Demolition Derby!: CLANG! DENT!

Showroom Showdown!: It finally looks as though it's all over for Maindrian , cornered in a caryard. (Who gets his sign on-screen for an extended shot AND a "Thanks To..." credit at the end.) It's curtains for our hero! There's no escape! There's... HOW DID HE ESCAPE? I'm serious, they just suddenly cut to him driving away from the previously-surrounded carlot. Continuity errors I can hadle. Blatant cheating pisses me off, I'm afraid. Just for that... and to save my sanity of trying to recap this flick... I'm cutting to the Big Finale.

Slow-Mo Stuntage!/Eleanor II/The End, apparently: The HUGE STUNT OF SLOW-MOTION GLORY occurs as Maindrian happens on a major traffic accident. (Oddly, not one that he's caused himself. What are the odds of that?) Amazingly all four cars involved in the accident have arranged themselves across the road in single file. (Again, what are the odds?) Maindrian guns it, aiming for a car so compacted the driver would have had have been Billy Barty to avoid getting killed. I guess he collided with a mobile car-crusher. The resulting flying car is filmed from three different angles, and we watch 2 in slow-mo and one at full speed. I'm a litle underwhelmed, quite frankly. Good height, plenty of distance and a nice straight flight... but he really butchered the landing, hitting nose-down at a forty-degree angle. Ouch. The stunt driver's lucky his balls didn't end up halfway back inside his body from that impact. But at long last, this signals an end to the Ultimate Chase. Ditching the cops, Maindrian pulls a quick Eleanor-Switcheroo at a car wash. ("The 1973 Ford Mustang! Comes in any colour, so long as it's yellow!") As a middle-aged car-wash guy gets arrested in his place, Our Hero drives off past the Bruthas, whose car engine has comically(?) caught fire. And so we fade out. Eventually. After watching the Bruthas say things like "Oh, MANNNNN!" for like, an hour or two. (Or so it seemed at the time.)

And so we dissolve to the credits and another country-tinged song. And in a moment of true professionalism, IT'S NOT LONG ENOUGH! It fades out, and the remaining few minutes of credits are in an eerie silnce. Mr Halicki, I slaute your bold, artistic statement on... uh, human futility and stuff.

Skeeters Summary: I mentioned my theory on this film earlier. Basically, it states that H.B Halicki was aiming to create the Ultimate Chase Film. But along the way, limitations of his technical skill and budget kind of stifled his creative vision. Quite often the dialogue hinted at events that were bigger and more spectacular than we were actually witnessing. (The 20-30 cop cars, for instance. At the end of the chase, there was 20+ cars involved, but for the majority the number averaged around 5 at the most.) I wouldn't be surprised if Mr. Halicki was a shade disappointed with the final product. (Resulting in his bigger, badder, crash-ier follow-up The Junkman, which was even billed on the video I hired as "Gone in Sixty Seconds II". Storywise, there's only a token resembelance, as H.B Halicki now plays not Maindrian, but the actual director of the first film. (Whoa, there's a stretch.) On the other hand, he followed his dream and got both films made. Kudos, dude. On the whole the movie delivered exactly what it promised. A slender plot, some amatuer-hour film-making, and shitloads of petrol-fueled action. At times it was confusing, irritating and laughable... but I think I got through it a lot easier than Son of Spam seemed to. Possibly due to the amount of mid-80's-early 90's "Turbo-Charged Travelogue" movies made in New Zealand I watched as a kid. (Goodbye Pork Pie, Never Say Die, Shaker Run etc.) Each of those films followed the formula of being a ninety-minute chase movie, designed to showcase of as much of New Zealands magnificant scenery as possible. Gone in Sixty Seconds was a bit of a flashback experience for me. Would I watch it again? Probably not. But if you're after some mindless escapism and really (I mean REALLY) like chase scenes, you could do a lot worse than checking it out. You could watch The Fast and the Furious instead. Now THERE'S an IQ-lowering flick if ever I saw one.

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