1999 - ENTRAPMENT, the reason they have movie stars

Entrapment is meant to be a classy heist film with beautiful people and places.  The film got the beautiful people and locations part right, what it didn't great right was a decent script for the actors.

Sean Connery is master thief Robert MacDougal, but lets face it he's just playing an older version of James Bond.  The stunning Catherine Zeta-Jones is his partner. They are thieves about to pull off the biggest heist of the century.  The films wants to be a stylish remake of Rififi, the famous caper film that is the template for this kind of film.  Instead what we got was a remake of an old George Hamilton film, Jack of Diamonds (anyone remember that). Frankly the George Hamilton film was better.

This is an example of an entertaining film where the stars have to carry the whole film.   The director and writers can't seem to come up with any interesting situations or even decent character development.  The film is enjoyable in spite of itself.  Probably the high point of the film is watching Catherine Zeta-Jones slither around in a really tight leotard.

 

Written by Ron Bass and William Boyles Jr.

113 minutes but really too long for such a lightweight film.