Entrapment Critic Reviews

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The New York Times | Elvis MitchellAdd Critic to Favorites

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 the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

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 the full review

Variety | Todd McCarthyAdd Critic to Favorites

Preposterous whimsy that sort of gets by thanks to lustrous settings, slick production values and, especially, its ultra-attractive stars.Read the full review

Washington Post | Desson ThomsonAdd Critic to Favorites

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 the full review

The Onion (A.V. Club) | Nathan RabinAdd Critic to Favorites

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 the full review

Washington Post | Rita KempleyAdd Critic to Favorites

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 the full review

Los Angeles Times | Kenneth TuranAdd Critic to Favorites

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 the full review

Slate | David EdelsteinAdd Critic to Favorites

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 the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Doug BrodAdd Critic to Favorites

This is one sexy and satisfyingly twisty dance.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalleAdd Critic to Favorites

Entrapment is an adventure movie without two brain cells to rub together.Read the full review

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