Entrapment

Rating:
Summary: A Charming Caper with a Dash of Romance
Review: An upststart, high stakes thief (Zeta-Jones) is taken in by a master of the perfect heist (Connery) and a May-December romance. This movie thrives on intricacies and unexpcted plot twists. Unless you are a veteran in the detective genre, this film will keep your eyes glued to the screen and your mind racing with possible outcomes. I recommend this movie for men and women and for those first "stay at home with a movie" dates. Include the Thomas Crown Affair and you are in for a sexy and intriguing evening.

Rating:
Summary: After The Matrix, The Best Film Of 1999!
Review: This is a great film! Sean Connery turns in some of his best work here as a crook named Mac who attempts to pull off one last, multi billion dollar heist! The Extremely Beautiful Catherine Zeta Jones plays a respected agent who teams up with Mac in order to try to catch him. Don't miss the last 30 minutes of sheer action as they attempt to rob one of the biggest banks, not to mention the biggest building, in the world! Then again, Don't miss any of it.
Don't get trapped into not seeing Entrapment!

Rating:
Summary: Stay Retired
Review: Dude, Sean Connery needs to stay retired. Seriously. You can't steal anymore. An insurance investigator and art thief played by Catherine Zeta-Jones (too hot to even by near the retired guy) is assigned to check out the retired burglar. They join forces after much bickering and do a good job. Then they go for a huge Y2K bank theft. This movie moved too slowly for me to even care about what was going on. Zeta-Jones would be a good Bond girl, but not for Connery. Blasphemy! Ultra funny Ving Rhames was also in this movie, but he made a couple of appearances. The ending left an opening for a sequel, but I hope they just leave this as it is. No more artifact, young woman movies!

Rating:
Summary: Not bad, not bad at all
Review: Entrapment~1999
Colour,112 mins
Stars:
Sean Connery
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Will Patton
Ving Rhames
Maury Chaykin
Stakes are high and sparks fly in this heart-stopping action movie. When master art thief Robert "Mac" MacDougal (Sean Connery) becomes entrapped in insurance investigator Gin Baker's (Catherine Zeta-Jones) devious game of international intrigue, the stage is set for the largest heist and biggest police sting in history. They've planned for every contingency, and covered every detail except one-the fevered attraction that's building between them, and a triple-cross that will shatter your illusions and leave you breathless.

Rating:
Summary: Great Action, but not too Intense!
Review: A great movie with quite a number of twists about a couple of highly skilled thieves traveling the world to find (and steal) treasures worth millions (and billions) of dollars. As with most action movies, there are definitely scenes that are very unrealistic, yet others that I never would have dreamed of, that under the right circumstances could work.

Things that improved the rating of the movie:
1) NO SEX SCENES! It is nice to see a movie that has great action, yet did not put in filth just to sell it.
2) A unique plot. So many flicks are about the same thing, just done differently.
3) Great twists! The movie kept you guessing until the end. I kept wondering how it would end. No, the good guys do not always win!
4) Good acting.
5) It kept a good pace through the entire movie. I did not get bored by it being too slow nor did I get overwhelmed by it moving so fast that I could not keep track of what was happening.

Things that hurt the rating of the movie:
1) The use of the "F" word several times. There was absolutely no need to add profanity to this movie, especially what I consider being hard core profanity.
2) A couple completely unbelievable and unrealistic scenes. Stretch the imagination, but keep to things that can really happen.

Overall, this was a good movie with a good plot. I would recommend this movie - especially if you have TV Guardian to filter out the few times of foul language.

My Rating: B+

Rating:
Summary: Good! Tense
Review: This movie, was very unpredictable. That's what I mostly enjoyed about it! The acting was great. Two great actors(Sean Connery and Cathrine Zeta-Jones) did a great job in this movie. There like good guy-bad guys! There bad guys that you like. The action is great, the plot line is good! I still haven't told you much about the movie either than it's good! Well, their both stealers, who steal a bunch of stuff. The last is 8 billion dollars, at a world's largest bank. That was the best part of the movie. Alot of one line humours type of thing! I consider this to be one of my all time favourite movies, two thumbs up!!!

Rating:
Summary: Did I see the right movie?
Review: After reading through other reviews of Entrapment I can't help but feel I saw the wrong movie. The version I saw was a never ending string of cliches embedded into a plot so flimsy it couldn't stand up if it were not for Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones. The direction of Jon Amiel was a never ending series of well worn manipulation techniques that were not even well done. I don't mind being a passive observer, but I do not like to be blatantly manipulated.

Several times during the movie I found it difficult not to laugh out load at the ludicrousness of what I was seeing. For example, in the well advertised scene of Catherine Zeta-Jones wriggling her way through the fake laser beams I couldn't stop thinking "Why doesn't she just crawl" or "What was the point of that move?" It's indicative of the whole movie. It's a scene played for the audience, and we aren't supposed to be there. In another scene between Sean Connery and Ving Rhames, Rhames scolds Connery for changing partners etc. Who is this scene for? We discover later in yet one more feeble plot twist that these two know this conversation is a sham, but rather than playing it out to further some clever hidden agenda it is solely to pull the wool over the eyes of the audience. And as I've stated before, the audience is not supposed to be there.

There are so many good caper movies... It is truly a disservice to the research that went into making those movies to add this fairy tale to the same genre... In short this movie was a waste of time and money.

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Summary: Old-fashioned, thriller has lots of humor
Review: Entrapment is a good old-fashioned crime caper movie. The story of a master criminal playing cat and mouse with an investigator has been done a hundred times before, and sometimes better, as the remake of The Thomas Crown Affair. Still, this picture has enough humor, thrills and plot twists to keep most viewers pleasantly occupied for a couple of hours. It also has something most movies don't have -Sean Connery.

Mr., Connery, now nearing seventy years old, remains as elegant, wise and impish as ever. Perhaps this is because, unlike today's generation of male stars, he was never buffed, pumped up and made to look like a model in a media blitz for Nordic Track. Even as James Bond, he had a five o'clock shadow, body hair, and skin that was not deeply tanned all over. He has always been a star that we are comfortable and at home with.

As Robert MacDougal, art thief of thieves, Connery is, well, Connery. This role is hardly a stretch for him, but he plays it with his usual skill. MacDougal has gotten rich over the years and seems to pinch art treasures these days because he enjoys it. At the outset, we see him pull an especially spectacular heist, and soon, Virginia Baker, a beautiful insurance investigator, is on to him. She is played by Catherine Zeta-Jones, whose performance is not quite up to her usual standard. Virginia cleverly works her way into MacDougal's life and persuades him to help her with an even more incredible robbery. He doesn't trust anyone, but he is both amused and intrigued by Virginia. The plot gets more and more involved, and we spend a lot of time guessing who is fooling whom.

The movie's pacing is uneven, which causes it to bog down from time to time. In particular, the scenes in which MacDougal trains Virginia for the upcoming heist are too drawn out. These scenes are followed by some exciting stuff, but why the wait? This problem is especially prevalent in movies like Entrapment, because they start off in high gear. You can't then easily shift into low gear without losing the audience. Director Jon Amiel might have been wise to consider the style of three decades worth of James Bond movies. They don't just start with a bang, they are all one big two hour bang.

The violence quotient in Entrapment is low, which I am always glad to see. Perhaps more than sex, violence in movies should not be gratuitous. If it's essential to the plot, then fine. Otherwise, we all get the point with a minimum of bloodshed.

Rating:
Summary: What the Eye never saw...
Review: It might be the subtitle for this highly entertaining action-thriller. In fact it's more a cat and mouse game... but who's the cat? In the best tradition of Hitchcock's "To Catch a Thief" it's a well balanced movie.

Sean Connery is in his top form when mixing duty with humor.

Catherine Zeta-Jones is amazingly subtle in her role. She starts out cocky and glizzy only to end up being confused to the kazoo in her encounter with Connery.

This is a pure actioner, not a minute passes without a twist in the plot and nobody stands still for much too long.

There double-crosses, triple-crosses and quadruple-crosses,... well in fact, there are so many crosses one could become dizzy...

It's a harmless no-brainer, but so well acted and directed that you will be constantly gripping your armchair just to see what happens next.

The DVD edition is not top notch, but with a movie like this one who cares... You get engulfed into the action practically as the movie starts and the rollercoaster ride ends when the movie ends. So who's got the time to examine wether frame 121 was sharp enough or if that squeeky noise on the right channel was really perfect.

Once you enter in the game it won't let you loose one minute and you will almost shout at it to stop, but as Zeta-Jones, you will be dragged even deeper into the charade and be so fascinated by it that you won't want it stop once it does.

The finale is a pure surprise and, though not unexpected for a Hollywood movie, truly original.

If you like this kind of movies, this one is certainly for you and will keep you guessing to the end on the who does what to whom and why... but who is really what and does really what to whom? Have fun with it... and let the ride of your lifetime begin...

Rating:
Summary: "A great escape!"
Review: Take a large chunk of "The Thomas Crown Affair", a dash of "Charade", and a pinch of "To Catch a Theif", mix well, and you've got one smashing dose of sheer style. "Entrapment" is a slick, glossy thriller, that's a delightful throwback to the glory days of cinema, with the stylish capers of the 60's. And the leads embody slick as well as anyone: Connery's ultra-cool Mac, and Zeta-Jones' drop-dead-gorgeous Gin. The set pieces are over-the-top and barely believable, yet who cares with a pair of leads as cool as this. Lots of action, with sexy wit to spare. And preposterous as it might be, it's still a great escape. A colorful supporting cast helps speed things along, and some different changes of locale gives the settings flavor. It's all style, so if you can check your brain at the door, you might just find yourself having a good time. It's good, old-fashioned fun!