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| Directed by Jon Amiel; Starring Sean Connery, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Ving Rhames, Will Patton, Maury Chaykin, Kevin McNally, Terry O’Neill, Madhav Sharma, and David Yip |
Even getting to spend two hours with Catherine Zeta-Jones could not save this flop. In what may be the lowest Sean Connery has dropped since Highlander II: The Quickening, Entrapment serves as a mere venture into poor filmmaking. Director Jon Amiel once proved his worth with the underrated Copycat, but then followed it up with The Man Who Knew Too Little and now this.
Zeta-Jones plays an agent for an insurance agency that is a cat-burglar in her spare time. She has a great caper planned but needs the expertise of retired master criminal Robert MacDougal (Connery). He trains her and the two begin to have a May-December romance. First they attempt to steal a mask so to prove herself to Connery. Thank heavens for this idea since it allows the audience to watch the cat like Zeta-Jones maneuver laser beams.
Amiel puts forth a very novice direction that keeps the film from ever breaking into any suspense. The two leads do what they can, but only Zeta-Jones comes out still looking promising in future roles. I wouldn’t call Entrapment bad, but I wouldn’t hesitate to call it a waste of time.
