For Eleanor alone should people watch Jerry Bruckheimer's speed-fest, Gone in 60 Seconds.
Eleanor, the all-powerful and ever-illusive 1967 Mustang of Memphis Raines' dreams, is the star of the biggest car chase in the film. Unfortunately, you have to wait until the last third of the movie to get your fill of true pedal-to-the-metal stuff.
Until then, you just have to satisfy your car-chase hunger with a few appetizers: a Porshe road race here, a Mercedes tearing through the streets there.
But the initial lack of high speed pursuits gives viewers a chance to meet the characters.
There's the car-theif-turned-good-guy Memphis (Nicolas Cage), his screw-up little brother Kip (Giovanni Ribisi) and Memphis' ex-girlfriend/partner in crime Sway (a blonde dreadlocked Angelina Jolie). One character, The Sphinx (Vinnie Jones from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) is silent for the better part of the film, but his antics provide some quality entertainment.
The premise of 60 Seconds is that Memphis must return to the land of car theives in order to steal 50 quality cars in 24 hoursor else Kip dies. The tension toward the end is true Bruckheimer: very tense and high speed. The movie will be a great renter, if only to allow people to watch and rewatch that end-of-the-movie car chase. Unforgettable.Kyra Kirkwood
(Source: Video Store Magazine, 2000)