Fasten your seatbelts for the extended ride of your
life in this high-performance, fuel-injected GONE IN 60 SECONDS
DIRECTOR'S CUT from producer Jerry Bruckheimer.
Never-before-seen footage adds fuel to this already high-octane
action hit starring Nicolas Cage, Robert Duvall, and sexy Angelina
Jolie. A legendary car booster (Nicolas Cage) thought he'd left
the fast lane behind him until he's forced out of retirement to
save his kid brother from the wrath of an evil mobster. It's
nothing less than a full-throttle race to pull off the ultimate
car heist: 50 exotic beauties in 24 hours -- and the cops are
already onto them!
CRITIQUE
UNRATED, NEW
EXTENDED VERSION – GONE IN 60 SECONDS – DIRECTORS CUT
This is what happens when studios get desperate for
money.
I’ve read an
article at the end of 2004 regarding what studios may do to increase
DVD sales, and one key point is to re- and re-release movies with
added features and the word “unrated” on the cover written in bold.
It’s catchy and looks sexy, but is it worth it?
When it comes
to the remake of Gone in 60 Seconds I thought it would be worth
it. I remember the movie when it came out in theaters since I worked
at the theaters at the time and indeed I thought it was sweet-as-hell.
A no-brainer pop-corn flick with Nicolas Cage in the lead. I actually
enjoyed this more than “The Fast and the Furious.” Also, I planned on
buying the 2000 edition DVD for quite some time, but never got around
to it.
This “uncut”
version I really don’t understand being “unrated.” Unrated for the
most part is what happens when a studio does not want to turn it to
the MPAA for a rating, and it’s usually between R and PG-13 material,
or sometimes even NC-17 if it’s really vulgar or graphic (American
Pie Uncut for example.)
There are only
a few minor add-in’s of footage from what I can tell, which means it
does not really affect the film much and it’s just fluff.
THE VIDEO
Buena Vista Home
Video presents Gone in 60 Seconds in 2:35:1 anamorphic
widescreen format. Not bad, I must say. The dark gritty scenes are
dark enough and the light colorful scenes are ever so beautiful. Even
to this day I always thought despite this film being a popcorn flick
and ideally Jerry Bruckheimer does nothing short but just that his
productions are well-produced and well shot.
THE AUDIO
Buena Vista Home
Video presents Gone in 60 Seconds in English (Dolby Digital
5.1) and a French dub track. A great film to blast in stereo surround
sound especially within the last 30 minutes with the whole “stealing
cars” sequences and the sweet-o car chase towards the movie’s end.
Dialogue is crystal clear as is the music.
THE EXTRAS
• Conversations
with Producer Jerry Bruckheimer
• Behind-the-Scenes
• Action Overload:
Highlight Reel
• The Cult Music
Video
• Script to Screen
featurette
• Car Stunts
featurette
“Conversations” is
copied from the first DVD release. Considering this guy is a
successful producer (and I am being quite modest on that, he is “very”
successful), there are some interesting tidbits he points out, but
then his comments are pretty much worded as cliché and almost to the
point that he is talking down to an audience, as if this disc is
geared towards the younger crowd. Overall this was a nice featurette.
The other
featurettes are mainly fluff, and they could have easily been edited
together into one massive documentary. It’s quite disappointing when
there isn’t anything regarding the original film, and why this remake
was inspired.
FINAL THOUGHTS
For some reason I actually enjoyed the other DVD set
better. The cut of the film was a better version, the features were
simple and sweet, and it was a set I should’ve gotten a long time ago.
I don’t mind this new set, but for the rest of you who already own it
I say don’t bother. The “uncut” makes a B-movie look like a C-movie,
and the extras aren’t impressive enough for a re-issue.
