Tempting trap
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Tempting trap |
| Original title | Entrapment |
| Country of production | USA , UK , Germany |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 108 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jon Amiel |
| script |
Ronald Bass , William Broyles |
| production |
Sean Connery , Michael Hertzberg , Rhonda Tollefson |
| music | Christopher Young |
| camera | Phil Meheux |
| cut | Terry Rawlings |
| occupation | |
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Entrapment (Original title: Entrapment ) is an American movie of the genre thriller from 1999. The director was Jon Amiel , the writer wrote Ronald Bass and William Broyles . The main roles were played by Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones .
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Master thief Robert MacDougal meets master thief Virginia Baker. Baker works for an insurance company; she was assigned to pretend to be a thief and so set a trap for MacDougal. Together they steal an antique mask, while MacDougal reveals his partner and wants to leave her behind. But she can make it clear to him that her job with the insurance company is only a cover and that she has a much bigger coup in mind that she can only master together with him. That's the only reason Baker has worked at the insurance company for five years, developing a program that she needs for the new venture. To do this, they have to go to the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur , where the power supply is cut off for 30 seconds at midnight at the turn of the millennium due to the year 2000 problem . In the meantime, you connect a laptop to the central computer of the clearing bank located there and use a technical trick to extend the time by ten seconds. During this period of time, Virginia sends eight billion dollars to her account through her program, which she wants to share with MacDougal. The alarm goes off when Virginia disconnects from the laptop too soon. If you're lucky, Baker can escape while MacDougal stays behind.
A day later, MacDougal and Baker meet at a light rail stop. MacDougal warns his partner that she is about to be arrested; the police were able to expose MacDougal some time ago and forced him to find and extradite Baker. He also had to return the stolen things, but he embezzled a billion that Baker still has in her account. MacDougal has since fallen in love with her and helps her escape through a deception. Shortly afterwards, the police officers leave the bus stop in frustration. Baker comes back and meets the waiting MacDougal. Together they decide to tackle another mission.
Reviews
The film received mixed reviews. In the magazine Der Spiegel 21/1999 it was described as a “solid thriller without surprises”, in the TV Spielfilm 11/1999 as a “noble old school crook”.
Awards
Connery and Zeta-Jones won the European Film Award . Catherine Zeta-Jones also won the Blockbuster Entertainment Award , Sean Connery and Ving Rhames were nominated for the same award. Christopher Young won the BMI Film Music Award .
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.
Zeta-Jones was nominated in 2000 as the worst actress and together with Connery as the worst screen love couple for the Golden Raspberry .
Individual evidence
- ↑ “Tempting Trap” , in: Der Spiegel , accessed on Oct. 20, 2019
- ↑ “Verlockendefallen” , in: TV Spielfilm , accessed on Oct. 20, 2019
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from December 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
