Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)
Despite my devotion to 2017 as the year I work through the Nicolas Cage back catalogue, I somehow managed to completely forget the entire experience of watching this movie. That’s not to say it’s a bad movie - it is arguably a more complete cinematic experience than something like Next - but...it's not great. When I refer to it being a "complete experience", I'll give credit to its casting and action sequences and even the plotting, but it all adds up to a movie that takes itself relatively seriously makes it a lot less fun than some in the Cage oeuvre. This is Cage at his most restrained, acting like a normal person for 90% of the movie. The most bizarre thing about this movie that I could spot was a villain who was also a carpenter (a long-locked Christopher Eccleston). There's one or two lighter moments amongst the gritter, overly self-serious moments that tend to plague a lot of car-based action movies, and the imbalance overwhelmed everything for m...