Catherine zeta-jones sean connery films

film by Jon Amiel

Entrapment is a heist film secured by Jon Amiel and graphic by Ronald Bass. It stars Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones and includes Will Patton, Pronounced Rhames and Maury Chaykin. Say publicly film focuses on the delight between an investigator and deft professional thief as they shot a heist at the twist of the millennium.

Simon Westward and Antoine Fuqua were both in talks to direct once Amiel was hired.^[3][4] Principal film making took place from June chance on October at locations in Kingdom and Malaysia. The score was composed by Christopher Young, meticulous British singer Seal performs "Lost My Faith" over the specify credits.

Entrapment was released sensationally in the US on 30 April and in the UK on 2 July. It reactionary mixed reviews from critics, ahead grossed $ million worldwide rundown a $66 million production outgoings at all costs.

Plot

In December , insurance researcher Virginia "Gin" Baker assesses description theft of a valuable Rembrandt painting from a New Dynasty City penthouse. Gin informs prepare boss, Hector Cruz, that she suspects the involvement of top-notch international thief Robert "Mac" MacDougal, an elderly man who steals for the challenge. Cruz assigns her to investigate.

In Author, Mac quickly realizes that Noose is following him and confronts her. She claims to have on a thief in need style Mac's help to steal spruce valuable Chinese mask from class highly-secure Bedford Palace. After Artifice passes his test by existent the Palace floorplans, Mac brings her to his isolated Scots castle to prepare. There, Come out of confesses to stealing the Rembrandt, prompting Mac to reveal range he, in turn, intercepted allow before it reached her patron. The pair train for birth heist, clashing over Mac's over-preparedness and resisting their mutual concern. Later, unaware that Mac run through listening in, Gin contacts Cruz to explain her plan pop in entrap Mac.

That night, Mac and Gin break into Bedford Palace and steal the death mask. Before they can escape, nevertheless, Mac threatens to drown Motherland if she does not certify she is trying to close down him. Gin claims that added insurance job is a giveaway identity, and she has rebuff intention of arresting him type she needs him for on the subject of heist.

In Kuala Lumpur, Start reveals her plan to come in the Malaysian branch of probity International Clearance Bank (ICB) housed in the Petronas Towers. Level midnight on New Year's Application, the bank's global computer pathway will briefly shut down let slip thirty seconds to verify corruption integrity due to the millenary bug. During this window, Springe and Mac plan to emit her custom software to extract small amounts from thousands obvious corporate transactions into her depository. Concerned for Gin's safety, Mac attempts to cancel the lift, but his contact, Aaron Thibadeaux, coerces him to proceed cranium provides Cruz with photos describe Mac and Gin in effect intimate moment. Cruz confronts Home town for answers, but she convinces him that it is end of her strategy to blame Mac.

As the Millennium act commence on New Year's Realize, Cruz oversees increased security reinforcement in the Petronas Towers. Snare and Mac hack the inspection system to conceal their turning up and break into the jumping housing the ICB system. Insensible the stroke of midnight, Gin's software successfully transfers just get back $8 billion to her account,^[a] but alarms are triggered conj at the time that she disconnects her laptop. She and Mac evade the isolated forces and climb to honourableness interlinked second tower across cables of suspended lights, but conj at the time that the cable snaps, Gin loses her miniature parachute. The threatening reach a large ventilation channel and Mac forces a weeping Gin to escape with surmount parachute while he remains elude, promising to meet her take into account Pudu train station.

The later morning, Mac meets Gin unbendable the station, accompanied by Thibadeaux, who reveals himself as clean Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent. Mac confesses that sharp-tasting was arrested two years before and given a deal do research avoid jail by entraping Slope, who has long been be submerged FBI suspicion. As a tautness arrives at the station, Mac reveals that he has flat in love with Gin, stream that he only surrendered $7 billion to the FBI, formerly slipping her a gun point of view documents to escape the state. Gin feigns holding Mac parallel with the ground gunpoint and escapes on integrity train, pursued by the In force. As Mac sits at decency station alone, Gin reappears, receipt jumped trains mid-station. Happily reunited, Gin proposes their next burglarise.

Cast

Filming locations

Principal photography took catch from June to October Photography locations for the film contain Blenheim Palace, Savoy Hotel Author, Lloyd's of London, Borough Hawk, London, Duart Castle on description Isle of Mull in Scotland, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur (with other filming fulfilled at Pinewood Studios) and rank Bukit Jalil LRT station. Yet, the signage at this address that was used for rank movie was Pudu LRT post instead of Bukit Jalil.^[5][6]

Reception

The husk was a box office happiness, grossing over $87 million infiltrate the US and $ trillion worldwide. According to the survey aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 40% of critics have given honourableness film a positive review homespun on 85 reviews, with alteration average rating of / Grandeur site's critics consensus reads, "A poorly developed plot weighs trail any potential chemistry between description movie's leads."^[7] At Metacritic, description film has a weighted numerous score of 54 out carry out based on 24 critics, hinting at "mixed or average reviews".^[8] Banish, critics such as Janet Maslin of The New York Times,^[9]New York Magazine,^[10] the Chicago Sun-Times,^[11]Variety^[12] and Desson Howe/Thomson of The Washington Post^[13] praised the release. CinemaScore gave the film skilful "B" grade from an A+ to F scale.^[14]

Roger Ebert gave the film three of link stars. "It works because get back to normal is made stylishly. The story line is put together like regular Swiss watch that keeps fluctuating time zones: It is exact and misleading at once. Rendering film consists of one pick up caper sequence after another, don it rivals the Bond flicks in its climactic action worth. The stunt and f/x trench here does a good helpful Most of the movie's preference is just that—action—and not exceptional violence." Ebert noted about Zeta-Jones, "I can only reflect, hoot I did while watching out in "The Mask Of Zorro," that while beautiful women dingdong a dime a dozen copy the movies, those with flush, flash and humor are top-notch good deal more scarce."^[11] "There's a tummy-churning tradition of pensionable movie blokes getting paired uproot with beautiful babes" complained OK! in its review. "We not quite believed Sean and Michelle Pfeiffer in The Russia House; fastidious decade later, Sean and Catherine Zeta-Jones? You gotta be ragger. The film's alright-ish."^[15]

Responses from description Malaysian government

Following Entrapment's release bundle June , the Malaysian First-rate Minister Mahathir Mohamad accused character film of presenting a malformed image of Malaysia. Mahathir took issue with the film joining together images of the Petronas Lookalike Towers with slums from Malacca.^[16] The Malaysian Government had aided Twentieth Century Fox with citation processing, customs clearance, telecommunications squeeze security in a bid benefits promote Malaysia as a release location.^[16]

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