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Entrapment
Entrapment movie poster
Directed by	Jon Amiel
Produced by	Sean Connery Michael Hertzberg Rhonda Tollefson
Written by	Ronald Bass William Broyles Jr. Don Macpherson
Starring	Sean Connery Catherine Zeta-Jones Will Patton Maury Chaykin and Ving Rhames
Music by	Christopher Young
Cinematography	Phil Meheux
Editing by	Terry Rawlings
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	April 29, 1999 April 30, 1999
Running time	113 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$66,000,000 US (est.)
IMDb profile

Entrapment (1999) is an American film directed by Jon Amiel, and starring Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Virginia 'Gin' Baker (Zeta-Jones) works for an insurance firm, attempting to capture the legendary art thief Robert MacDougal (Connery) by making him believe that she is a thief herself, thus entrapping him. Unbeknownst to Baker's employers, however, she is in reality a master thief herself who hopes to enlist MacDougal's help in pulling off the 'Crime of the Millennium'.

The viewers get their first hint of the upcoming plot twist when MacDougal denies entrapping Baker, telling her, "No, actually it's called blackmail; entrapment is what cops do to thieves."

Filming locations for the film include:

• Blenheim Palace, Savoy Hotel, London,
• Lloyd's of London,
• Duart Castle on the Isle of Mull in Scotland,
• The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,
• Near the end, where Baker is waiting for MacDougal at a train station, supposedly the Pudu station. The sign says it is, but it was filmed at the Bukit Jalil stop.

The film opened to poor reviews ^[1]. Many of the critics noted that the film seemed centered around a scene where Zeta-Jones worms around a net of laser beams. The camera lingers on her buttocks through much of the scene. Critic Scott Weinberg said "OK, if you own a TV then you've seen that scene. You know the one. It's when Catherine Zeta-Jones squirms her beautiful rear down onto the floor to avoid a laser alarm system. It's shown on the commercial, the preview and in the movie itself like 7 times. The challenge is this: Build a movie around it." ^[2]. The laser scene was choreographed by Paul Harris, who also choreographed the wand to wand combat sequences in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Despite the poor reviews, the film was nonetheless a box office success, grossing over $87 million domestically. Supporters of the film saw it as no more than a lightweight caper film something along the lines of Charade.

Complaints arose that the movie depicted Malaysia as a backwards country and was misportrayed. The controversy arose from one scene in particular, where a shantytown in Malacca was superimposed over a tilt shot of the then recently constructed Petronas Towers.

• Official site
• Entrapment at the Internet Movie Database