Apr 16, 2001 06:18 PM
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I went to see this movie because the advertisments looked so good, I'm really glad that I did because this movie kept me on the edge of my seat.
There was a time, six years ago, when Memphis Raines (Nicholas Cage) was the king of Southern California car thieves, so good at snatching top-of-the-line vehicles that when he suddenly quit the game and moved up north, auto theft in the South Bay went down 47%.
Kip,(Giovanni Ribisi) exhibiting more nerve than sense in the film's crisp opening sequence, steals a Porsche right out of a Wilshire Boulevard showroom window. Unfortunately, following in his brother's footsteps gets Kip who makes a deal with Raymond Calitri, ''the devil'' (Christopher Eccleston), who soon enough offers Memphis, the legend himself, a veritable devil's bargain. Because Kip cant keep his end of the deal that he made.
Come out of retirement, Calitri proposes, breaking your sacred word to your mother in the process, and steal 50 unstealable cars for me in four days, or else I will place your brother in a coffin I have personally handcrafted out of wood just to show what a psycho I am. Memphis, not a legend for nothing, agrees, only to save his brothers butt. He also didn't do it for the money. He did it for the cars.
Step one of this car theft extravaganza is rounding up Memphis' old gang, including Otto (Robert Duvall), Atley (Will Patton), Donny (Chi McBride) and two people Memphis would just as soon avoid: the nonspeaking Sphinx (Vinnie Jones) and the beautiful Sway (Angelina Jolie). Given that 50 is a lot of cars, Memphis agrees to let Kip and his kiddie gang (Scott Caan and comedian TJ Cross among them) in on the action.
Soon getting word of this potential heist (which is to include a 1967 Shelby Mustang GT 500, the only car Memphis has never taken and this is his favorite car) is top detective Roland Castlebeck (Delroy Lindo), who'd like nothing better than busting Memphis. Wanting to bust him in a different way is Johnny B (Master P), a rival crook who's always resented Memphis.
The excitment in this movie will keep you at the edge of your seat waiting and wanting to know what happens next.
The cars in this movie are cars we would all love to own.
and a lot of fast paced action.
