RPM (1998)

Director:

Ian Sharp

Writers:

J.P. Gardner (written by) and
Donald Cammell (writer)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

A professional car thief pulls off the heist of a lifetime when a steals a prototype supercar. |

Plot Keywords:

Heist | Dog | Airplane | Motor | Nude Swimming

Cast

David Arquette	...	Luke Delson
Emmanuelle Seigner	...	Michelle Claire
Famke Janssen	...	Claudia Haggs
Steve John Shepherd	...	Rudy
Stephen Yardley	...	Chiarkos
Kenneth Cranham	...	Biggerman
John Bluthal	...	Grinkstein
Debora Weston	...	Det. Georgie Rysher
Jean-Luc Bideau	...	Insp. LeBlanc
George Rossi	...	Zantos
Bob Sherman	...	Karl Delson
Jonathan Cecil	...	Lord Baxter
Patrick Allen	...	Millionaire
Jerry Hall	...	Bored Girlfriend
Stéphane Eichenholc	...	Undercover Cop

Runtime:

Germany:87 min | USA:91 min

Country:

UK | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Rankcolor)

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Iceland:12

Filming Locations:

Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France

Company:

Europa Pictures Limited

Trivia:

Roger Avary was planned to direct the movie right after Killing Zoe (1993) with a cast comprising of : Jean-Hugues Anglade, Yun-Fat Chow, Dolph Lundgren, Matt Dillon, Nastassja Kinski, Vanessa Paradis, Tchéky Karyo and Tom Savini. The project was dropped for budgetary reasons.

This movie should have only been 'Sixty Seconds...

If you were to take Gone in Sixty Seconds, and remove anything that even remotely looks like a plot, good acting, and direction, you would be left with a movie, and I use the term very loosely, called R.P.M. And the strange thing is, this movie was made way back in 1997! So I guess you could say that Jerry Bruckheimer got the idea for ‘Sixty Seconds from R.P.M…..Naw. Starring David Arquette and Famke Janssen, this `movie' is set in the south of France where Arquette is hired to steal the prototype of a gasless car named R.P.M. (Deciding the name of the car must have taken a whole 2 minutes.). Arquette and Janssen soon find themselves out for the same thing, and their `chemistry' between each other is very hard to swallow at times, all the way up to the ‘secret' they share with us by the end of the movie. Everything about this movie is wrong. From the acting, and again I use that term loosely, to the unrealistic one billion dollar paycheck for the R.P.M. If there is to be any redeeming qualities of this entire movie, I must admit that Famke Janssen is looking as beautiful as usual.

It is this reviewers opinion to spare yourself the humiliation of actually paying money to rent this, and wait until it comes on regular t.v., not even HBO, and watch it in the privacy of your own home.