Gone in Sixty Seconds

Ex-car thief Randall Raines is forced out of retirement to save his brother Kip after a boost gone wrong. With the help of allies old and new, they race to meet the demands of notorious crime boss Raymond Calitri as the police are in hot pursuit.

Critics were nearly united in dismissing Gone in Sixty Seconds as a loud, hollow spectacle — the plot drew particular scorn, and even the car chases that were the film's main selling point failed to generate much excitement. Audiences were far kinder, and decades later the stunt work has earned some retrospective appreciation, a gap that captures the film's odd afterlife.