Entrapment | | Cast : | Sean Connery, Catherine Zeta-Jones | | Director : | Jon Amiel | | Studio : | Twentieth Century Fox Home Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | April 30, 1999 | | DVD Released Date : | April 04, 2000 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 14, 2005 | | Summary | Sean is the best actor of the lot! | Content
 | I admit the first time I saw this I wasn't impressed, but I just saw it again a few nights ago and really enjoyed it. I have always admired Sean's skill and presence...What's interesting and a little iffy is that he plays a "likeable bad guy". His appeal is present in force but I think they could have casted the female lead much better, Jones is no where near the caliber Sean is. I don't like the Bond films...even the ones with Sean, because they are SO predictable and flimsy. Now, usually I like a story with depth and backstory which this one simply doesn't have. Nonetheless, it is enjoyable all the same.
I admire that there is no sex scene (I plain don't like them; but that's not to say that Sean has lost his sex appeal, he hasn't! And please give the guy a break about his age and the fact that he's slowin' down a bit...I think anyone of his age would.)
Overall he's still got it. *A 22-year-old Sean fan* |
| Rating | | | Date | July 11, 2005 | | Summary | It Takes a Thief - Redux | Content
| We are introduced early in this movie to someone whole steals a valuable Rembrandt Van Rijn painting. We do not see this person because the person is wearing a mask. Insurance investigator Virginia Baker (Catherine Zeta-Jones) tells her boss that she thinks Robert "Mac" MacDougal (Sean Connery) stole the painting. Her boss tells her that she has blamed MacDougal for half the thefts committed for a period of time I no longer recall. The beginning of this movie sounds very similar to "The Thomas Crown Affair." Fear not, this movie has more twists than that movie, to which is bears only a few similarities. This movie is much more like "It Takes a Thief," though you may not realize how much until you reach the end.
Baker begins following Mac around, ostensibly to find some clue as to where the Rembrandt painting might be. However, we soon learn that Baker has something much bigger in mind. Things become even more interesting when Baker reveals to Mac that she stole the Rembrandt, and she used a clever, non-obvious way of getting the painting out of the building. Soon we learn that there is even more to the theft of the Rembrandt. I know I was surprised.
What happens next is a sort of competition, where we see Baker and Mac continuing to try to outdo each other. If you are not paying attention it is easy to get lost in who is doing what and when they are doing it; thus the advantage of DVDs where you can keep stepping back a chapter or so to try and digest the complexity of this movie. Eventually the plot reveals that Baker has a plan to steal a huge (billions) sum of money by breaking into a computer. The plan involves very fine timing that has to coincide with the millennium (of course, otherwise there would be no sense of urgency).
Once things get set into motion the movie moves forward briskly. There is getting into the building, the timing of breaking into the computer, and the nasty mistake that sends dozens of people chasing after them. It is all good fun up until someone gets caught.
This movie tends to get polarized reviews. I think mostly it is about your expectations. If you like Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones, and try to avoid analyzing action movies very much, then you would probably like this movie. On the other hand, if you do not care for either actor, or you spend too much time realizing that there are a number of continuity problems and implausibilities sprinkled throughout the movie, you will likely be too focused on those and disappointed that the director was hoping you would like his cleverness in spite of the fact that much of the plot was impossible.
In balance, I should note that Christopher Young received a BMI Film Music Award in 2000 for this movie. Catherine Zeta-Jones won a Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actress - Action. Both Catherine Zeta-Jones and Sean Connery won European Film Awards Audience Awards for Best Actress and Best Actor. In addition, Ving Rhames was nominated for the Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actor - Action, and the Motion Picture Sound Editors of USA nominated the movie for a Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing for a Foreign Feature. To keep things in perspective, Catherine Zeta-Jones was also nominated for the Razzie Award for Worst Actress and Zeta-Jones and Connery were nominated for the Razzie Award for Worst Couple.
As for me, once I realized that the movie had too many implausible situations, I just enjoyed the plot and tried to figure out what was what. I also must point out that I have liked Connery in nearly every movie he has starred in. He has a lot of charisma. I also like Zeta-Jones, though she has much less talent than Connery.
I must admit that the ending puzzles me just a little. It seems to me that there came a point where the director made something happen, and ignored the trivial problem that what he did was impossible. I think he was hoping that people would like the end of the movie so much that they would not notice the problem. Unfortunately, nearly everyone noticed. Fortunately for the director, many people did not care.
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| Rating | | | Date | June 29, 2005 | | Summary | One of THE best movies!! | Content
| I can sum it all up in one sentence: Nobody's as good as Catherine Zeta-Jones!!!
But the movie itself is awesome! A lot of good plot twists and entertaining action throughout. Definately a movie you can watch more than once and still be entertained by (trust me, I know first hand!). |
| Rating | | | Date | January 17, 2005 | | Summary | One of the best !!! | Content
| I love this one. I watched it when I was eight. I still love it no matter what. One of the best flicks ever ! |
| Rating | | | Date | October 22, 2004 | | Summary | Never trust a naked woman | Content
| Cos lets face it, we all get what we want when we're naked! ;)
I don't really understand why there's some questionable reviews about this DVD, but everyone has their own opinion I guess. I found it to be quite a fast paced movie, although I'm not keen on Sean Connery (Mac). I don't like the spelling of the name :) and the only reason they had to bring in Catherine Zeta Jones (Gin) is because he's getting on a bit now! I'm always going to be a bit iffy about Catherine, as her accent is so WEIRD now, and she reverts back to her Welsh accent, particularly when she wants people to believe she's still the same little Welsh girl that starred in Darling Buds Of May. I don't think so! She keeps saying "combuder" instead of "computer". Watching her struggle with the name Kuala Lumpur in half-Welsh-half-American is genuinely funny.
Both actors do a great job of portraying their characters. Sean Connery does a brilliant eye roll a lot of the time, and is probably the only actor who can get away with saying "If I'm late, I'm dead".
The film is shot in Kuala Lumpur, what looks like Scotland, and London, I think. The Scotland scenery looks lovely, very peaceful and remote. The building used for exterior shots of Mac's safe house (Castle Duart on the Isle of Mull) is the ancestral home of the Chief of the Clan MacLean.
I love the whole stealing of precious items, it's so weird how much thought & work actually goes into it during the film. And you're always holding your breath, waiting for them to hit a laser, or for a security guard to spot them.
The finale to this, I will NEVER understand, no matter how many times I watch it! It's very subtle, highly original, and you're left guessing until the very last frame, and trying to search the screen! In this, there are double-crosses, triple-crosses and quadruple-crosses, enough to leave you spinning. Is he double-crossing her? Is she double-crossing him? Is Ving Rhames in this for anything other than hard cash, and lots of it? Considering he doesn't have much of a role, and he's not really who you think he is!
There's been a lot of comparisons to a movie called The Thomas Crown Affair. Sorry, but I haven't seen this, so I'm not likely to compare.
There's a lot of sexual chemistry between Catherine & Sean, although you'll be glad to hear, they never really get it on, and it's almost a paternal attraction on Sean's side.
Forget the negative reviews for this movie. You're not supposed to take this film at all seriously, you're supposed to be watching the pretty lady get herself into all kinds of positions (Michael Douglas must love that!) with some laser beams. |
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