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ENTRAPMENT
(1999) |
Starring:Sean
Connery, Catherine Zeta Jones
The plot:
Gin, an ambitious insurance invesitgator, thinks she can capture
"Mac", a world-reknowned thief who keeps stealing things her
insurance company has to pay up on. This can be done because
she is a women and all the other undercover invetigators were
men. So, to lure him in, she snags Mac's interest with a propostion
he can't refuse.
Comment:
This film wasn't
quite as bad as expected but I decided
it flew just a little too close to 'tacky' and 'been done
before' to really rate 3 flames. Zeta Jones (she of welsh
decent) has
such an irritating faked America accent,
it makes you want to smack her. Sean Connery is starting to
show his age a little with a few close ups focusing on watery
eyes - or was he lovingly gazing at Gin???! The plot is fairly
predictable, although the climax is still quite gripping -
because you don't want them to die, right? And then the end...
Don't get me going! Ruined the whole film - contributing significantly
to the demise of any chance of a 3 flame rating...
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THE
THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1999) |
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Starring: Pierce
Brosnan, Rene Russo
The plot:
Thomas Crown, a respected and successful businessman,
comes under investigation for the theft of a $100 million
Renoir painting.
Comment:
How to be Bond without being Bond... As remakes go, this is
pretty snazzy (kudos to the script writer(s)), but unfortunately,
I didn't think much of the original either. Rene Russo swans
around in expensive clothing looking stunning but not really
pulling any dramatic perfomance. Brosnan also drifts vapidly
around looking more interested in his 'richboy toys' than
Rene. Unfortunately, it's all downhill from here as the overall
concept of the film is not as exciting as it sounds when pitching
it, and not even decent acting and good cinemaphotography
can retrieve a slow burning plot. Furthermore, for anyone
who saw
Entrapment earlier in 1999,
they will find this film somewhat familiar. Now, if only they
had combined the believability of the Brosnan/Russo couple
with the action in Entrapment, we might have had a good film...
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