Language: English 5.1 Dolby Surround, Spanish Dolby Surround, French Dolby Surround
Subtitles: English
Deleted scenes
Director's commentary
Featurette
Interactive menus
Scene selection
Original theatrical trailer
DVD Release: Entrapment [Blu-Ray]
Release Date: 2007
Commentary by director Jon Amiel
Theatrical trailer in high definition
DVD Release: Entrapment [Spanish]
Rating:
Genre: Crime
Movie Type: Caper, Crime Thriller
Themes: Perfect Crime, Cons and Scams, Bank Robbery
Director: Jon Amiel
Main Cast: Sean Connery, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Ving Rhames, Will Patton, Maury Chaykin
Release Year: 1999
Country: US
Run Time: 113 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG13
Plot
After a long career playing good guys, Sean Connery gets to have some fun playing a crook for a change in the romantic crime thriller Entrapment -- and he even gets to break the law with the lovely Catherine Zeta-Jones. When a priceless Rembrandt painting is stolen from a New York skyscraper in a daring and technically sophisticated robbery, ace insurance investigator Virginia "Gin" Baker (Catherine Zeta-Jones) begins looking into the matter and is soon convinced it's the work of master art thief Robert "Mac" MacDougal (Sean Connery). Gin thinks the best way to get the goods on Mac (and perhaps recover the painting) is to work her way inside his operation, so she locates him in London and, posing as a fellow art thief, offers to work as his partner. While Mac is smart enough to not accept an offer like that from just anyone, most thieves don't look as good as Gin does in a leotard, and she soon proves an able assistant in a shakedown robbery where they pinch a rare Chinese mask from a British museum. After this success, Mac agrees to join forces with Gin for what is literally the heist of the millenium -- as Midnight rolls around in Kuala Lumpur on December 31, 1999, the security computers in a major multinational banking facility will be breached for a split second as the computers roll over to a new program for Y2K. Is that long enough for Gin and Mac to nab $8 billion in bank transfers? Is 14 days long enough to prepare for a robbery of this scale? And will Mac and Gin's professional relationship pave the way for some capers in the bedroom? In addition to playing the male lead, Sean Connery also co-produced this film; the supporting cast includes Ving Rhames and Maury Chaykin. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Sean Connery - Producer; Christopher Young - Composer (Music Score); Jon Amiel - Director; Vic Armstrong - Second Unit Director; Vic Armstrong - Stunts Coordinator; Ronald Bass - Executive Producer; Ronald Bass - Screen Story; Ronald Bass - Screenwriter; Jim Dowdall - Stunts Coordinator; Norman Garwood - Production Designer; Michael Hertzberg - Producer; Michael Hertzberg - Screen Story; Phil Meheux - Cinematographer; Arnon Milchan - Executive Producer; Jim Morahan - Supervising Art Director; Keith Pain - Art Director; Terry Rawlings - Editor; Penny Rose - Costume Designer; Iain Smith - Executive Producer; David John - Sound/Sound Designer; Michelle Guish - Casting; Donna Isaacson - Casting; Chris Carreras - First Assistant Director; Anna Pinnock - Set Designer; Michael Boone - Art Director; William Broyles - Screenwriter; Jonathan P.B. Taylor - Second Unit Director Of Photography; Rhonda Tollefson - Producer
Virginia 'Gin' Baker (Zeta-Jones) works for an insurance firm, attempting to capture the
legendary art thief Robert MacDougal (Connery) by making him believe that she is a thief herself, thus entrapping him.
Unbeknownst to Baker's employers, however, she is in reality a master thief herself who hopes to enlist MacDougal's help in
pulling off the 'Crime of the Millennium'.
The viewers get their first hint of the upcoming plot twist when MacDougal denies entrapping Baker, telling her, "No, actually
it's called blackmail; entrapment is what cops do to thieves."
Near the end, where Baker is waiting for MacDougal at a train station, supposedly the Pudu station. The sign says it is, but it was filmed at the Bukit Jalil stop.
Critical reaction
The film opened to poor reviews [1]. Many of the critics
noted that the film seemed centered around a scene where Zeta-Jones worms around a net of laser beams. The camera lingers on her
buttocks through much of the scene. Critic Scott Weinberg said "OK, if you own a TV then you've
seen that scene. You know the one. It's when Catherine Zeta-Jones squirms her beautiful rear down onto the floor to avoid a laser
alarm system. It's shown on the commercial, the preview and in the movie itself like 7 times. The challenge is this: Build a
movie around it." [2]. The laser scene was choreographed by
Paul Harris, who also choreographed the wand to wand combat sequences in 'Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix'.
Despite the poor reviews, the film was nonetheless a box office success, grossing over $87
million domestically. Supporters of the film saw it as no more than a lightweight caper film
something along the lines of Charade.
Malaysian reaction
Complaints arose that the movie depicted Malaysia as a backwards country and was misportrayed. The controversy arose from one
scene in particular, where a shantytown in Malacca was
superimposed over a tilt shot of the then recently constructed Petronas Towers.
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