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.)
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Entrapment (1999) is an American film directed by Jon Amiel, and starring Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones. The original music score was composed by Christopher Young. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 494 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (622 × 755 pixel, file size: 106 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Source: © Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born August 25, 1930) is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, and BAFTA Award-winning Scottish actor and producer who is perhaps best known as the first actor to portray James Bond in cinema, starring in seven Bond films. ... Ronald Bass (March 26, 1942 – ), born Ronald Jay Bass and sometimes credited as Ron Bass, is a prolific U.S. screenwriter. ... William Broyles Jr. ... Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born August 25, 1930) is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, and BAFTA Award-winning Scottish actor and producer who is perhaps best known as the first actor to portray James Bond in cinema, starring in seven Bond films. ... Catherine Zeta-Jones (born 25 September 1969) is an Academy Award-winning Welsh actress based in the United States. ... Will Patton (born June 14, 1954) is an American actor. ... Maury Chaykin (born July 27, 1949) is a Canadian/American actor. ... Irving Rameses Rhames (born May 12, 1959) is a Golden Globe-winning American actor. ... Christopher Young (born April 28, 1957) is an award-winning music composer for film and television. ... Phil Meheux (born September 17, 1941 in Sidcup, Kent, England) is an English cinematographer. ... Terry Rawlings is BAFTA and Academy Award-winning film editor and sound editor. ... Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation (known from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation) is one of the six major American film studios. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Malaysia. ... is the 119th day of the year (120th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events of 2008: (EMILY) Me Lesley and MIley are going to China! This article is about the year. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... is the 120th day of the year (121st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events of 2008: (EMILY) Me Lesley and MIley are going to China! This article is about the year. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The year 1999 in film involved some significant events. ... This article is about motion pictures. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born August 25, 1930) is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, and BAFTA Award-winning Scottish actor and producer who is perhaps best known as the first actor to portray James Bond in cinema, starring in seven Bond films. ... Catherine Zeta-Jones (born 25 September 1969) is an Academy Award-winning Welsh actress based in the United States. ... Christopher Young (born April 28, 1957) is an award-winning music composer for film and television. ...

Filming locations

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
• The Bukit Jalil train stop

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Critical reaction

The film opened to mixed or average reviews ^[1] as described by Metacritic. Rottentomatoes lists the film as receiving only 37% positive reviews ^[2] Critics focused on 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." ^[3]. 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. Paul Harris is an English Choreographer in film, television and theatre whose best known work to date is probably the laser scenes for Catherine Zeta-Jones in the movie Entrapment. He has choreographed several BAFTA winning television dramas including the BBCs landmark Bleak House and he is the choreographer... Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a 2007 fantasy adventure film, based on the novel of the same name, by J. K. Rowling. ...

Other more mainstream critics such as the New York Times^[4], New York Magazine^[5], the Chicago Sun-Times^[6], Variety^[7], and the legendary Desson Howe/Thomson of the Washington Post^[8] lavished praise on it.

The film was also a box office success, grossing over $87 million domestically. The term box office can refer to either: A place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to a venue The amount of business a particular production, such as a movie or theatre show, does. ...

Malaysian reaction

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. Shanty towns are units of irregular low-cost and self-constructed housing built on terrain seized and occupied illegally -- usually on lands belonging to third parties, most often located in the urban periphery of the cities. ... This article is about the state in Malaysia. ... The Petronas Towers The Petronas Towers (also known as the Petronas Twin Towers), in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (, ), were once the worlds tallest buildings when measured from the level of the main entrance to the structural or architectural top. ...

References

External links

• Official site
• Entrapment at the Internet Movie Database
• Entrapment at Allmovie