Entrapment (film) - Critical Reception

Critical Reception

The film opened to mixed or average reviews as described by Metacritic. Rotten Tomatoes lists the film as receiving only 38% positive reviews. Critics focused on a scene where Zeta-Jones worms around a net of laser beams. The camera lingers on her derrière through much of the scene.

Another similar scene takes place when she is actually worming around the real laser beams to steal the mask, including some close-ups of her derrière. The videos of this scene have been viewed much on YouTube, with some of them having her move in slow-motion and going backwards.

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." 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.

Other critics such as The New York Times, New York Magazine, the Chicago Sun-Times, Variety, and Desson Howe/Thomson of the Washington Post praised the film.

The film was a box office success, grossing over $87 million in the US and $212 million worldwide. Entrapment was nominated for two Razzie Awards including Worst Actress (Catherine Zeta-Jones, also for The Haunting) and Worst Screen Couple (Zeta-Jones and Sean Connery).

The film was screened out of competition at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.

As of 2012 IMDB rates the film at 6.1/10.