Entrapment

As I put in the title I did not find much in this film. I have to say that Zeta-Jones and Sean Connery are trying very hard to do something out of paper thin screen play and not very interesting plot. I tries to like this film but I could not. Since I have to fill ten lines of text let me just say that Cathrine Zeta-Jones is a fantastic actress and very good looking. I am sorry that she has so many health and other problems. There are rarely any people today who do not. The scene in the end with the trains was cute otherwise it was not that interesting film. I would recommend that you watch it if you do not have anything better to do in your life.

It's so painful to watch S.C. played such role in such a predictable one-way shallow movie. C.R.Jones tried her best to play a completely unbelievable and ridiculous female cat thief. All the supporting actors in this movie were also bad, they just followed the flow of a very bad script to play out those ridiculous roles and collected the payrolls. This is a very boring and at the same time very predictable heist movie. The ridiculous suddenly-disappeared, suddenly showed up old fart scenes at the end of this movie just further ridiculed this already stupid movie.

Easily the worst movie this year. If you're looking for character development, good dialogue or a halfway decent plot, this is the wrong movie. Even if you're looking for Catherine Zeta-Jones' butt, you're still going to be disappointed. (You saw it all in the previews.) The only compelling aspects of the completely 2-dimensional characters were due to the fact that he's Sean Connery and she's Catherine Zeta-Jones. But even James Bond with a Hellenesque beauty at his side cannot save this cerebrally-challenged script. The worst part is that it was too painful to make fun of. If a cheap and bad horror movie is a man falling off of his bike that you can laugh at (and sometimes laughs with you), than "Entrapment" is a catastrophic and very painful train wreck. If your Connery/Zeta-Jones fix is unsatiated. Go rent "Goldfinger" and "Zorro." If you just want to get out of the house, please save yourself and see "The Matrix."

Sure Sean Connery always gives a film a boost, but here, Catherine Zeta Jones (who did have her first break in Mask of Zorro but makes a breakthrough here) steals the show with undeniably hot sexuality and finely tuned skills. She plays a insurance person (or does she totally) who has to track down Mac (Connery), an retired thief. But soon the two go into cahoots and go after big prizes (if you catch my drift). Surprisingly good thrills and some other good things bring this film to be...good. B+

The only excuse I can think of for how bad this movie turned out, was that everyone was doing it for the money. Sean Connery sleep-walks through his part and Catherine Zeta-Jones was just there to look pretty (the story sets her up as extremely smart, yet her character plays dumb the whole movie). I couldn't even swallow the storyline - tallest building in the world, millenium bug testing, corrupt 'cops', old master-thief and young beauty in a love tryst...I mean, come on! The biggest twist of the movie was stated bluntly by one of the characters as well...no tension, no great lead-up, no false trails, just blurted out. With no action, no witty dialogue (they did try) and no tension, what you end up with is a bad 'thriller' with big names - definitely a cash cow for all involved.

I have been disillusioned in the past few years with the gut-wrenching level of stupidity and mindless violence in the most recent "action" movies. "Tomorrow Never Dies" made me get up and walk out, and if I hadn't kept laughing at the sheer lack of quality, I would have left "Knock Off", too. But this movie has renewed my hopes. The stars are brilliantly cast, as Connery honestly delivers a smooth, suave gentleman thief and Zeta-Jones tops her amazing job in "Zorro" with this smart, multi-leveled, and above all, sexy character. The high-tech gadgets are cool, but not distracting like in "Mission:Impossible" and the exotic locales really make the movie flow. The plot is full of intriguing curves (not quite shocking or sudden enough to be twists, but not unenjoyable), especially those involving Catherine Zeta-Jones (Yes, she has nice curves - OUCH!). See this movie.

If the Connery/Zeta-Jones "romance" weren't such a turn-off to begin with, the characters fail to retain any sympathy throughout the film. I don't watch many thief films hoping for the thieves to get there "come-uppance" in the end, but nothing would have pleased me more this time. The plot line was contrived and standard heist fare. Hugely disappointing, except for the realization that Catherine Zeta-Jones and Daphne Zuniga appear to be the same person.