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Entrapment
20th Century Fox Film Corporation


8.2

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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for some language, sensuality, violence and drug content

Starring Sean Connery, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Ving Rhames, Will Patton, Maury Chaykin, Kevin McNally, Terry O'Neill, and Madhav Sharma

Sparks fly as Catherine Zeta-Jones, an insurance agent, charms her way into doing business with Sean Connery, an aging thief. The two team up to pull off a big heist in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

GENRE(S):	Suspense/Thriller
WRITTEN BY:	Ronald Bass (also story) William Broyles Jr. Michael Hertzberg (story)
DIRECTED BY:	Jon Amiel
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: April 4, 2000 Video: November 23, 1999 Theatrical: April 30, 1999
RUNNING TIME:	113 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA / UK / Germany

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

The New York Times Elvis Mitchell

Combine two stars of this wattage with a lot of techno-talk and elaborate heist plotting and you get plenty of good reasons to pay attention.

New York Magazine Peter Rainer

Connery and Zeta-Jones not only look great together, they work well together.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

The very embodiment of a star vehicle: a movie with a preposterous plot, exotic locations, absurd action sequences, and so much chemistry between attractive actors that we don't care.

Variety Todd McCarthy

Preposterous whimsy that sort of gets by thanks to lustrous settings, slick production values and, especially, its ultra-attractive stars.

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

It's the romantic sparring with Catherine Zeta-Jones as another glamorous thief -- not the unsuspenseful heists -- that makes this silly thriller lightly bearable.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

There's your intrigue. There's your romance. There's your x factor, by which I mean your willingness to give two appealing stars an incredible break throughout most of the major obstacles between them and a successful robbery.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

It's the kind of film Hollywood doesn't make any more, and a pleasant retro diversion.

Slate David Edelstein

With its featherweight premise, casually amoral heroes, and exotic locales, it conjures up an era (the '60s and '70s) when twisty, romantic heist pictures were routinely ground out as tax shelters.

Washington Post Rita Kempley

Even the most ardent fans of the natural-born Bond are more apt to be shaken than stirred by the 68-year-old's implausible feats in this inert romantic adventure.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

Entrapment is ostensibly some sort of action film, but perhaps out of deference to its sleepwalking star, it moves slowly and contains very little actual action.

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

It's too bad that the glamour wears off about halfway through Entrapment, when it stops being a movie about art heists and starts being one about stealing (ho-hum) money.

Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

While the film glistens a bit now and again, a closer look reveals you've been diverted not by a diamond but by a genuine synthetic zircon.

Entertainment Weekly Doug Brod

This is one sexy and satisfyingly twisty dance.

Dallas Observer Hal Hinson

There is not even the slightest trace of freshness or originality in either the script -- which was written by Ron Bass and William Broyles from a story by Michael Hertzberg and Ron Bass -- or in Amiel's stodgy direction.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

A script that, at its best, is inconsistent, and, at its worst, is laughably implausible and riddled with obvious flaws.

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

Entrapment is an adventure movie without two brain cells to rub together.

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

A wildly expensive movie full of computers, nonsense and violence, a film where wit, romance, elegance -- everything -- is sacrificed on the altar of giganticism, cliche and over-the-top action.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

It is strangely paced (especially in the beginning), always confusing to follow, and extremely awkward as a romance.

Film Threat Ron Wells

The stars have zero chemistry and the movie is none too thrilling.

LA Weekly Ella Taylor

The only decent actors in Entrapment are high-tech tools of global robbery.

The New Yorker Bruce Diones

The stars lack any sort of chemistry, which is too bad, since the script, by the always unreliable Ron Bass (with William Broyles), is intended as a romantic cat-and-mouse fantasy.

Empire Kim Newman

Entrapment ambles lazily through its set-up and features only one (admittedly impressive) stretch of white-knuckle daredevilry as our heroes dangle off the tallest building in the world (which is in Kuala Lumpur, incidentally).

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen

The film doesn't work, it ain't charming.

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

If it's a good heist movie you're after, there are surely better ways to go than with this limp caper.

The average user rating for this movie is 8.2 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Christoph A. gave it a10:
I like the film very much. The contrast between love and Thriller is very exited. I like to watch the film everytime it's on TV.

Anson G. gave it a10:
This one was the best film they ever made. I cant believe they make a film over my country, Malaysia. Good job!

[Anonymous] gave it a7:
Not the best, but it does have some very nifty parts.

Gerron K gave it a 5:
The film doesn't do much to hold my attention, with the exception of Catherine Zeta Jones spectacular acrobatic move. It is quite a lurid, slow paced film that just lumbers on and doesn't do much.

Marcello B. gave it a 9:
VERY COOL!!!!!

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Entrapment 20th Century Fox Film Corporation

Entrapment
20th Century Fox Film Corporation