Blog Entry #5

Blog Entry #5
Gone in Sixty Seconds
“Gone in Sixty Seconds” is directed by Dominic Sena and produced by action thriller producer Jerry Bruckheimer. “Gone in Sixty Seconds” is a movie that originated from a 1974 movie called “Gone”. “Gone in Sixty Seconds” stars Nicolas Cage (Memphis Raines), Giovanni Ribisi (Kip Raines), Angelina Jolie (Sara Wayland), TJ Cross (Mirror Man), William Lee Scott (Toby), Scott Caan (Tumbler), James Duval (Freb), Will Patton (Atley Jackson), Delroy Lindo (Detective Roland Castlebeck), Robert Duvall (Otto Halliwell), Christopher Eccleston (Raymond Calitri), Chi McBride (Donny Astricky), Timothy Olyphant (Detective Drycoff), Grace Zabriskie (Helen Raines) and Master P (Johnny B.).
“Gone in Sixty Seconds” for the most part is shot in Long Beach, California and Memphis Raines comes out of retirement from stealing cars to save his brother Kip Raines from the ruthless Raymond Calitri. Kip pulls a job for Calitri and botches the job and Memphis Raines friend Atley Jackson, who now works for Calitri, finds Memphis and tells him Kip will be killed if the job isn’t finished. Meanwhile, Detective Castlebeck notices that Memphis is back in town and waits for Memphis to slip so he can put him in jail for good.
The job is to boost fifty cars so Calitri can sell them to a South American buyer. Memphis and his crew would get $200,000 dollars for delivery of the boosted cars. The crew scouts locations and make deals with car dealerships for car keys. While Memphis and his crew scout cars, Detective Castlebeck and his men scout Memphis’s crew. The first forty-eight cars get boosted without problems. Kip, Tumbler and Toby steal the forty-ninth car from an upscale neighborhood and get caught. Neighborhood security shoots at the car and Toby gets shot.
However, the fiftieth car is (Eleanor) a 1967 Shelby Mustang that Memphis has a long relationship with. In the past Memphis has attempted to boost the Mustang several times, but the car gave him problems every time. Detective Castlebeck knows that Memphis will steal this car. Kip has his own problem so Atley wants to get him out of town. Atley tells Calitri that Kip evated him. Time is running out for Memphis’s crew. Memphis boosts the Mustang and the chase is on with law enforcement and Memphis gets stuck in traffic on a bridge then he sees an opportunity when he jumps the car off of a flat bed of a tow truck. Memphis gets the car back to Calitri but he is twelve minutes late and the Mustang gets destroyed. Calitri says the deal is done between Kip and Calitri. The problem is now with Memphis and Calitri.
When Calitri’s men are ready to shoot Memhis, his brother Kip saves the day and life of big brother Memphis by hitting Calitris’s men with a car lift at the scrap metal yard. Memphis goes after Calitri and tells him that he made a mistake by not killing Memphis. Calitri pulls out a gun and Memphis has to find a way of not getting shot. Detective Castlebeck hears gun shots, but knows Memphis came back to town to save little brother Kip from Calitri, and pursues the sound where the shot came from. Calitri shoots at Castlebeck and the detective drops his gun and Calitri has him at gun point. Memphis sees whats going on and jumps at the chance to knock Calitri over the rail to his death. He falls into the casket that was made for one of the Raines brothers. Castlebeck lets Memphis go because he understands he was there to save Kips life.
At the end of the movie the crew gets together for a barbeque and they thank Memphis for helping out and Kip presents keys to Memphis. Kip bought Memphis a 1967 Shelby Mustang (Eleanor) that was stripped down to be refurbashed. This movie is packed with a lot of action and thrills in my opinion. If I had to compare this movie to another it would be “Gone” or “Grand Theft Auto”. This movie is a must see.