Entrapment

Ok, I will admit right now, I have seen this movie about five or six times as it seems to be on UK Gold every week on slow news days and I still have no idea what is going on for most of the 100 or so minute running time. Is Sean Connery a cop, a thief, an informant?

At first he appears to be a master criminal operating in tranquil solitude from his remote Scottish castle but then Catherine Zeta Jones Douglass or whatever her name is, I'll call her Welshy, appears and the whole thing goes crazy.

From what I understand from watching it, Welshy gets brought in to bring down master thief Connery who then seems to double cross Welshy before she phones up the man from Con Air and does a reverse CIA funded swoop on him, only to reveal that Connery is infect helping either the same or different CIA style people to get at Welshy as she is in actual fact some sort of double agent criminal intent on usurping Connery to get the swag for herself only for them both to fall in love and agree to keep the spoils for themselves before each attempting to pull a fast one and stab the other in the back before one of them, i forget which, im not sure it matters, disappears on a train track leaving the other with some cash which may or may not incriminate them.

The previous statement makes about as much sense as this movie. If either of them is helping the authorities bring the other down then surely the plans of previous heists, evidence of things stolen in the heists around the huge castle Connery has somehow acquired despite having no visible means of income and several plots of new heists would probably be enough evidence to take one of them down and end the film.

I think the writers or at least someone in an initial screening were aware of this glaring confusion and therefore inserted the scene of a cat-suited Welshy leaving little to the imagination in order for us to forget everything that had happened in the movie and wipe the slate clean.

'Wasn't she good a minute ago? This makes no sense…. buuuuuuuuuum.'

'What movie are we watching again?'

'I don't know, I think it just started, looks ok.'

And there you have it, in this respect this is potentially one of the best written pieces of modern cinema, it's effectively two films in one and while neither makes any sense whatsoever, you're unlikely to remember either of them.

GOOS Rating: GGG

Entertainment: GGG

RD