Entrapment (film)
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William Broyles, Jr. | |
Story by | Ronald Bass Michael Hertzberg |
Produced by | Sean Connery Michael Hertzberg Rhonda Tollefson |
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Cinematography | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 114 minutes |
Countries | United States United Kingdom Germany |
Language | English |
Budget | $66 million |
Box office | $212.4 million[2] |
Entrapment is a 1999
Plot
Virginia "Gin" Baker is an
Mac agrees and brings Gin to his isolated castle on a Scottish island to plan and train for the heist. Aaron Thibadeaux, apparently the only ally that Mac trusts, arrives with supplies for the theft. Mac, unsure of Gin's motives, keeps her romantic advances at bay and they clash repeatedly as they train and prepare.
While Mac is busy making final preparations, Gin contacts her boss, Hector Cruz, from a payphone and gives him an update, unaware that Mac has the entire island bugged and he is listening.
Mac and Gin break into Bedford Palace and Gin carefully maneuvers around security lasers, having carefully practiced how to do so for weeks. She steals the mask and escapes with Mac, but before they can get away he interrogates her while threatening to drown her if she does not admit that she works for Waverly Insurance and is planning to entrap him.
Gin convinces Mac that she's a thief, her insurance agency job is the real cover and that she has planned an even bigger heist in Kuala Lumpur worth over $1 billion. Mac agrees to go to Malaysia with Gin, where she lays out her plan to steal $8 billion from International Clearance Bank in the North Tower of the Petronas Towers on New Year's Eve, taking advantage of an electronic security gap she's created.
In Kuala Lumpur, Gin is confronted by Cruz for disappearing on him, and she convinces him that Mac is planning the bank heist and her investigation is ongoing. His romantic feelings for Gin growing, Mac attempts to call off the heist, but Gin persuades him to continue.
Despite the presence of Cruz and other
Gin waits for Mac and initially fears he has been caught or killed, but he soon appears with Thibadeaux, who arrests Gin. Mac admits to Gin that she had always been the target, and he has been cooperating with the FBI for some time to avoid incarceration, but that Cruz has only just been told the truth.
As a train arrives at the station, Mac slips Gin a gun and documents to help her escape the country. She pretends to hold Mac hostage at gunpoint, threatening to shoot him if the agents follow her. She boards a
Cast
- Sean Connery as Robert "Mac" MacDougal
- Catherine Zeta-Jones as Virginia "Gin" Baker
- Will Patton as Hector Cruz
- Ving Rhames as FBI Agent Aaron Thibadeaux
- Maury Chaykin as Conrad Greene
- Kevin McNally as Haas
- Terry O'Neill as Quinn
- Madhav Sharma as Security Chief
- David Yip as Chief Of Police
- Tim Potter as Millennium Man
- Rolf Saxon as Director
- Maya Karin (Cameo)
Filming locations
Principal Photography took place from June 29 to October 1998. Filming locations for the film include Blenheim Palace, Savoy Hotel London, Lloyd's of London, Borough Market, London, Duart Castle on the Isle of Mull in Scotland, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur (with other filming completed at Pinewood Studios) and the Bukit Jalil LRT station. However, the signage at this station that was used for the movie was Pudu LRT station instead of Bukit Jalil.[5][6]
Music
The film's score was composed by Christopher Young. British singer-songwriter Seal performs "Lost My Faith" over the end credits. The music video features Seal performing a heist in a tall building, where he steals a talisman but sets off the alarm. As the police storm the building, Seal ultimately escapes by jumping through a window. At first, he appears to be free-falling, but a descender he is attached to (the same one Gin uses in the film) stops him before he reaches the ground. Seal unclips himself and walks away. The music video contains clips from the film, including Connery and Zeta-Jones as Seal's accomplices.
Reception
The film was a
Roger Ebert gave the film three of four stars. "It works because it is made stylishly. The plot is put together like a Swiss watch that keeps changing time zones: It is accurate and misleading at once. The film consists of one elaborate caper sequence after another, and it rivals the Bond films in its climactic action sequence. The stunt and f/x work here does a good job... Most of the movie's action is just that—action—and not extreme violence." Ebert noted about Zeta-Jones, "I can only reflect, as I did while watching her in "The Mask Of Zorro," that while beautiful women are a dime a dozen in the movies, those with fire, flash and humor are a good deal more scarce."[11] "There's a tummy-churning tradition of pensionable movie blokes getting paired up with beautiful babes..." complained OK! in its review. "We barely believed Sean and Michelle Pfeiffer in The Russia House; a decade later, Sean and Catherine Zeta-Jones? You gotta be kidding. The film's alright-ish."[14]
Responses from the Malaysian government
Following Entrapment's release in June 1999, the Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad accused the film of presenting a distorted image of Malaysia. Mahathir took issue with the film splicing images of the Petronas Twin Towers with slums from Malacca.[15] The Malaysian Government had assisted Twentieth Century Fox with visa processing, customs clearance, telecommunications and security in a bid to promote Malaysia as a film location.[15]
References
- ^ a b "Entrapment (1999)". AFI Catalog. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
- ^ "Entrapment (1999)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
- ^ Petrikin, Chris (22 May 1997). "Fuqua to helm Connery in 'Entrapment' for Fox". Variety. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
- ^ Petrikin, Chris (8 March 1998). "Fuqua escapes 'Entrapment'". Variety. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
- ^ "Filming Locations for Entrapment". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 21 October 2012.
- ^ Manan, Daz (3 July 2017). "Bukit Jalil LRT station's Hollywood connection". Malay Mail. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
- ^ "Entrapment (1999)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
- CBS Interactive. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
- ^ Maslin, Janet (30 April 1999). "'Entrapment': They're a Devilish Match, but Who's Conning Who?". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
- ^ Rainer, Peter (10 May 1999). "Some Like It Hotter". New York. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
- ^ a b Ebert, Roger (30 April 1999). "Entrapment Movie Review & Film Summary (1999)". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
- ^ McCarthy, Todd (26 April 1999). "Entrapment Movie Review". Variety. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
- ^ Howe, Desson (30 April 1999). "Take No Pensioners". The Washington Post. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
- ^ MacDonald, Bruno (19 May 2000). "Film & Video: DVD sales releases". OK!. No. 213.
- ^ a b "Entertainment Entrapment rapped by Malaysian PM". BBC News. 22 June 1999. Archived from the original on 17 February 2020. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
External links
- Entrapment at IMDb
- Entrapment at AllMovie
- Entrapment at Box Office Mojo
- Entrapment at Rotten Tomatoes
- Entrapment at the TCM Movie Database
- Entrapment at the American Film Institute Catalog