Entrapment
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: April 30, 1999 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
15
Negative:
2
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
The New York TimesJanet Maslin
Combine two stars of this wattage with a lot of techno-talk and elaborate heist plotting and you get plenty of good reasons to pay attention. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter Rainer
Connery and Zeta-Jones not only look great together, they work well together. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The very embodiment of a star vehicle: a movie with a preposterous plot, exotic locations, absurd action sequences, and so much chemistry between attractive actors that we don't care. Read full review
70
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Preposterous whimsy that sort of gets by thanks to lustrous settings, slick production values and, especially, its ultra-attractive stars. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
It's the romantic sparring with Catherine Zeta-Jones as another glamorous thief -- not the unsuspenseful heists -- that makes this silly thriller lightly bearable. Read full review
70
Washington PostDesson Thomson
There's your intrigue. There's your romance. There's your x factor, by which I mean your willingness to give two appealing stars an incredible break throughout most of the major obstacles between them and a successful robbery. Read full review
70
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
It's the kind of film Hollywood doesn't make any more, and a pleasant retro diversion. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
While the film glistens a bit now and again, a closer look reveals you've been diverted not by a diamond but by a genuine synthetic zircon. Read full review
60
SalonStephanie Zacharek
It's too bad that the glamour wears off about halfway through Entrapment, when it stops being a movie about art heists and starts being one about stealing (ho-hum) money. Read full review
60
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
Entrapment is ostensibly some sort of action film, but perhaps out of deference to its sleepwalking star, it moves slowly and contains very little actual action. Read full review
60
SlateDavid Edelstein
With its featherweight premise, casually amoral heroes, and exotic locales, it conjures up an era (the '60s and '70s) when twisty, romantic heist pictures were routinely ground out as tax shelters. Read full review
60
Washington PostRita Kempley
Even the most ardent fans of the natural-born Bond are more apt to be shaken than stirred by the 68-year-old's implausible feats in this inert romantic adventure. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyDoug Brod
This is one sexy and satisfyingly twisty dance. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Entrapment is an adventure movie without two brain cells to rub together. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
A script that, at its best, is inconsistent, and, at its worst, is laughably implausible and riddled with obvious flaws. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
A wildly expensive movie full of computers, nonsense and violence, a film where wit, romance, elegance -- everything -- is sacrificed on the altar of giganticism, cliche and over-the-top action. Read full review
50
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
It is strangely paced (especially in the beginning), always confusing to follow, and extremely awkward as a romance. Read full review
50
Dallas ObserverHal Hinson
There is not even the slightest trace of freshness or originality in either the script -- which was written by Ron Bass and William Broyles from a story by Michael Hertzberg and Ron Bass -- or in Amiel's stodgy direction. Read full review
40
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
The only decent actors in Entrapment are high-tech tools of global robbery. Read full review
40
Film ThreatRon Wells
The stars have zero chemistry and the movie is none too thrilling. Read full review
40
The New YorkerBruce Diones
The stars lack any sort of chemistry, which is too bad, since the script, by the always unreliable Ron Bass (with William Broyles), is intended as a romantic cat-and-mouse fantasy. Read full review
40
EmpireKim Newman
Entrapment ambles lazily through its set-up and features only one (admittedly impressive) stretch of white-knuckle daredevilry as our heroes dangle off the tallest building in the world (which is in Kuala Lumpur, incidentally). Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
The film doesn't work, it ain't charming. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
If it's a good heist movie you're after, there are surely better ways to go than with this limp caper. Read full review
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