Gone in 60 Seconds

This year's brain-dead summer action entry from producer Jerry Bruckheimer--king of expensive, MTV-edited, cookie-cutter, popcorn junk pics for the easily entertained (The Rock, Con Air, Armageddon)--Gone in 60 Seconds stars Nicolas Cage on flawed hero auto pilot as Memphis Raines, a reformed car thief forced back into "the game" when his inept younger brother (Giovanni Ribisi) bungles an assignment to swipe 50 rare cars for smuggling overseas. If Cage doesn't deliver the same 50 cars in 72 hours, his brother will be killed by a scenery-chewing mobster (Christopher Eccleston). The slick, $50 million budget and the A-list cast (including Angelina Jolie, Delroy Lindo, Robert Duvall) can't change the fact that director Dominic Sena's B-movie rehash is a nothing but a set of new tires and a paint job on a rusty old jalopy of a script. (R. Blackwelder)