| 88 |
Chicago Tribune
One of the best of its streamlined, over-produced, double-clutch kind: a high-speed, slicker-than-slick car-chase movie with unexpected deposits of character and comedy.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Examiner
A film where suspense and exhilaration are incompatible, and a receding plot line is merely the platform for cars to fly through panes of glass.
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| 63 |
New York Post
Her star billing notwithstanding, Jolie has perhaps the ninth-largest part in the movie (behind seven humans and a dog), playing Cage's ex-girlfriend.
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| 63 |
USA Today
It's a pretty good ride even if it blatantly steals some of its best stunts from "American Graffiti" and "Grease."
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| 60 |
Chicago Reader
I found it more pleasurable as a time waster than either "Mission: Impossible."
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| 60 |
Mr. Showbiz
What does it say that we have a closer relationship with the car than with the characters? It says Bruckheimer.
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| 50 |
The New York Times
This new version is mindless hot-rodding fun, especially for those with a weakness for vintage cars hurtling down city streets, a group whose members include -- sigh -- me.
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| 50 |
Portland Oregonian
A tepid disappointment that contains one mediocre chase scene and a lot of wasted talent.
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| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times
This is the kind of movie that ends up playing on the TV set over the bar in a better movie.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
The story is unbelievable and phenomenally silly, not a good combination.
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| 50 |
Miami Herald
In the end, for all its auto-erotic flair, Gone in 60 Seconds is missing a money shot.
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| 42 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
This retread has been bloated far beyond its B-movie origins, beefed up with more characters and an all-star cast, stripped of any real suspense and loaded down with music cuts and one-liners aimed at pleasing a crowd of rowdy male teenagers.
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| 40 |
Film.com
This film, a remake of a hapless 1974 cheapie of the same title, can't even get the big chase right.
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| 40 |
Rolling Stone
A product that will delight car junkies and drive cinephiles to swear off film until fall.
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| 40 |
TV Guide
The car stunts are ridiculous, all lightning-fast editing and computer enhancement -- by the time action is this far removed from reality, who cares?
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| 40 |
Salon.com
A time-waster with some enjoyably empty zip.
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| 40 |
Film.com
So mired in his own ludicrous equation for contemporary action pictures that it's constantly stuck in first gear.
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| 38 |
Charlotte Observer
Interesting and idiotic elements almost exactly balance each other.
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| 38 |
Baltimore Sun
Brain-softener.
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| 30 |
Time
In this film we learn that it takes 8,000 lbs. of pressure to crush a car but only one credited screenwriter (Scott Rosenberg) to pound out such a lame script.
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| 30 |
TNT RoughCut
Does boast, as a major plot point, a dog's bowel movement. And things do go 'boom!' quite spectacularly and frequently enough to distract from the truth that there is virtually nothing going on in this whole movie that Nintendo hasn't done better.
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| 30 |
Los Angeles Times
It has a tendency to run ragged and spends an unhealthy amount of time idling pointlessly at intersections.
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| 30 |
Washington Post
There were moments when I thought Gone in 60 Seconds might be a passably entertaining movie. I figure those moments, strung end-to-end, would total 30 or 40 seconds.
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| 30 |
Austin Chronicle
A 119-minute trailer.
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| 30 |
LA Weekly
Written in 60 Seconds would be a more appropriate title.
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| 30 |
Village Voice
Doesn't just look and sound like a car commercial. It is a car commercial.
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| 30 |
Dallas Observer
It's barely a movie at all, more like a thousand car commercials spliced together in an hour.
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| 30 |
Washington Post
I'll tell you what's gone in 60 seconds, all right: my attention.
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| 25 |
Entertainment Weekly
Eventually, the senses jam and a mental lube job is in order.
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| 25 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Proves a theory first advanced in the movie "Repo Man": The more you drive, the stupider you get.
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| 25 |
New York Daily News
A mindless, cliche-riddled action-cartoon, a blur of metal and fire and screeching tires, with bad dialogue, cardboard characters and a volume set so high, it makes the Indianapolis 500 sound like chamber music.
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| 25 |
Christian Science Monitor
How did a dignified pro like Duvall get stuck in this fender-bender?
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| 25 |
Boston Globe
The flat tire of summer movies.
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| 20 |
Variety
Editor
Perfectly dreadful in every respect.
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