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Year:   1999
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie:  3/5
DVD:    3/5

Teaser

Virginia Baker (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is a woman with an obsession. As an analyst at Waverly Insurance she wants to capture the legendary Robert MacDougal (Sean Connery), international art thief extraordinaire. She finally gets the chance to track him down and join him on a heist in order to catch him in the act. Or at least that is what she is supposed to do. Gin has other plans for Mac...

Movie

"Entrapment" is an action movie with a lot of character twists. At its base it is a relatively simple plot that is presented to the viewers. But it soon veers from the path as the various characters have hidden agendas to pursue. For an action movie it has a lot of character scenes since one of the elements is the mutual attraction of Gin and Mac to each other. I remember that Catherine Zeta-Jones and Sean Connery were rumored to be romantically involved during the filming of this movie. And then she married Michael Douglas so maybe the rumors were not that far off.

Actors

Sean Connery is still suave and debonair at almost seventy. He still holds his own teamed up with 30-year old Catherine Zeta-Jones and together they portray a believable romance. Ving Rhames plays the mysterious Thibadeaux, who has only a few scenes but shows a different facet of his character in each scene. Will Patton plays Hector Cruz, Virginia's boss who is enamored with her.

DVD

There are two deleted scenes with no sound but director's commentary. One is a car chase that was cut out and the other is a short plot point scene. There is also an alternate ending which is basically cutting out the last part, leaving a more morose ending. The director's commentary is fair with a good amount of analysis about the movie. There are a bunch of theatrical trailers and television spots. There is also a 14-minute featurette.

Recommendations

It's a fairly good movie though for an action movie it takes a while to really get going. Worth watching.
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