Catherine Zeta Jones and Sean Connery star as two ingenious jewel, painting, and money burglars who plan a huge heist at the turn of the millenium during New Years Eve in 1999.
Zeta is actually an insurance detective, Virginia Baker trying to find, the person responsible for a couple of burglary crimes in the area.
She suspects Mack (Sean Connery aka Robert MacDougal) is the person behind it, but rather than try to bring him in, she decides to get the man’s confidence, and convinces him to try to pull of a big heist thus implicating Mac some more and getting the evidence she needs to put him behind bars for a long time.
Mack is not an idiot, and he distrusts her from their very first meeting.
By the end of the film, one of the film will have pulled a great heist while the other
will either be in jail for a long time or worse. Their 2 contrasting styles in the movie, and their styles in pulling of different heists in the movie is really fun to watch.
The acting and special effects and stunts are also great including the culminating
climatic scene near the end where Mac and Virginia plot their big escape after
a heist.
There are some problems with the film however. Virginia is young and naive and
she takes the lies and garbage that Mac says at face value. Mac is not even a good
liar yet Virginia’s character is dumb enough to believe this old thief’ss lies.
Now on to the dvd itself:
The DVD is very well done and contains a great
number of features:
The deleted scenes in the movie are actually quite good, in fact, I think they were alot better than a couple of the scenes in the finished draft of the movie.
One great deleted scene is the car chase that Mack and Virginia get into while trying to dodge a couple of hitman that are tracking them down.
The scene has a great climax at the end that has you guessing what’s going to happen next.
The scene is actually in the film, but what you get in the finished movie is actually
less than half of the original scene!!
Needless to say, I think this scene was great and should have been put in the original film.
Other features in the DVD include:
- Special feature on the making of the film
Special commentary on the film itself
The commentary is teriffic, the director Jon Amiel, provides a lot of great insights and fact into the characters and Catherine Zeta herself, that fans may not
know.
Alternate ending to the film!!!
The alternate ending in the film is actually very similiar to the original ending
with minor differences.
Special trailers of the film
- Production Notes and much more!!!
Entrapment from head to toe is one of the best heist/thriller movies in quite a long time.
It gets predictable in a couple of areas, but the film is entertaining from beginning to
end.
Rent the DVD and enjoy it, along with the film itself.