“Gone In Sixty Seconds” has a great premise but the execution just never works whatsoever and that’s a real shame as they recruit two good actors in the process.

In “Gone In Sixty Seconds”, ex-car thieving extraordinaire Memphis Raines (Nicolas Cage “Ghost Rider”, “Con Air”) is forced to steal 50 cars in 72hrs (it turns out to be in 1 night after all the talking) otherwise a group of gangsters are going to kill his brother. It’s something that has never been done before and Memphis is going to need the best of the best if he is going to succeed. The movie ends up becoming more of an elaborate heist film rather than a speedy getaway movie.

Nicolas Cage is the first talented actor this movie has and it is a real shame because he isn’t given enough to actually do, most of the time he’s just stood around with an incredibly bland voice. Robert Duvall (“The Godfather”) in the other talented actor this movie seemed to get hold of and again he’s just stood around not doing much. Christopher Eccleston is boring as the villain. I hated Delroy Lindo (“The One”) as the police officer. There is too much of the characters just standing around.

“Gone In Sixty Seconds” is so bothered about the set-up that it forgets about all the car chases we came here to see as we end up only getting one and it isn’t too impressive. I usually like elaborate heist movies or at least the elaborate heist itself but this movie should be more about car chases than anything else. This movie also badly uses its two talented stars.