Gone in 60 Seconds is a silly movie. All my car-crazy (more or less former) friends love it, and I can understand why, but it is none the less silly. Flashy, showy, and to a certain extent even a little cool, but oh-so shallow and plump. The paper-thin plot of a bunch of car thieves who have to steal 50 cars in one night to keep a crazy mobster from killing Nicholas Cage’s brother is nothing but an excuse to show off some really rather nice cars, and I have absolutely no idea why this many more or less good actors agree to play in something like this, as there’s not really much acting. But I guess one can never have much money, and considering the $100,000,000 budget, one can only imagine how much of that went to actors’ salaries. (In comparison, the 1973 original — which I’m dying to see, by the way, as it sounds a Hell of a lot more interesting — cost $1,000,000, and there hasn’t been that much inflation in the last 35 years.)

So, fun to watch with buddies, but not something one’d want to spend much money on. 4.0/10.