Gone in Sixty Seconds
Buena Vista Pictures | Release Date: June 9, 2000 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
35
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 34 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
13
Negative:
17
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
I found it more pleasurable as a time waster than either "Mission: Impossible." Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
This is the kind of movie that ends up playing on the TV set over the bar in a better movie. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
The story is unbelievable and phenomenally silly, not a good combination. Read full review
30
Washington PostStephen Hunter
I'll tell you what's gone in 60 seconds, all right: my attention. Read full review
25
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Eventually, the senses jam and a mental lube job is in order. Read full review
25
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
Proves a theory first advanced in the movie "Repo Man": The more you drive, the stupider you get. Read full review
30
Washington PostDesson Thomson
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. Read full review
63
USA TodaySusan Wloszczyna
It's a pretty good ride even if it blatantly steals some of its best stunts from "American Graffiti" and "Grease." Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The car stunts are ridiculous, all lightning-fast editing and computer enhancement -- by the time action is this far removed from reality, who cares? Read full review
30
Dallas ObserverRobert Wilonsky
It's barely a movie at all, more like a thousand car commercials spliced together in an hour. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldCharles Savage
In the end, for all its auto-erotic flair, Gone in 60 Seconds is missing a money shot.
25
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
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. Read full review
40
SalonCharles Taylor
A time-waster with some enjoyably empty zip. Read full review
50
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
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. Read full review
50
Portland OregonianKim Morgan
A tepid disappointment that contains one mediocre chase scene and a lot of wasted talent.
30
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
A 119-minute trailer. Read full review
30
L.A. WeeklyHazel-Dawn Dumpert
Written in 60 Seconds would be a more appropriate title. Read full review
30
Village VoiceDennis Lim
Doesn't just look and sound like a car commercial. It is a car commercial. Read full review
25
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
How did a dignified pro like Duvall get stuck in this fender-bender? Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
It has a tendency to run ragged and spends an unhealthy amount of time idling pointlessly at intersections. Read full review
40
Film.comTom Keogh
So mired in his own ludicrous equation for contemporary action pictures that it's constantly stuck in first gear. Read full review
75
San Francisco ExaminerWesley Morris
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.
25
Boston GlobeJay Carr
The flat tire of summer movies.
38
Baltimore SunAnn Hornaday
Brain-softener.
20
VarietyEditor
Perfectly dreadful in every respect. Read full review
30
TimeRichard Corliss
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.
38
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Interesting and idiotic elements almost exactly balance each other. Read full review
40
Film.comRobert Horton
This film, a remake of a hapless 1974 cheapie of the same title, can't even get the big chase right. Read full review
40
Rolling StonePeter Travers
A product that will delight car junkies and drive cinephiles to swear off film until fall.
30
TNT RoughCutJ. Rentilly
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.
63
New York PostLou Lumenick
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.
42
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
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. Read full review
88
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
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.
60
Mr. ShowbizLarry Terenzi
What does it say that we have a closer relationship with the car than with the characters? It says Bruckheimer.
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