|
Entrapment (1999)
Virginia "Gin" Baker
(Zeta-Jones) is an investigator who works
for a top close agency. Robert "Mac"
MacDougal (Connery) is an international art
thief who likes a challenge. A priceless
Rembrandt painting is stolen from an office
one night. Gin gets herself sent to
investigate Mac as the chief suspect. She
tries to entrap him with a proposition,
claiming that she is an art thief. She
promises that she will help him steal a
priceless Chinese mask from a well-guarded
palace. They travel to Scotland, and plan
the complicated theft at Mac's hideout, an
isolated castle on a small island. While Mac
is busy making final preparations, Gin
contacts her boss, Hector Cruz (Patton), and
informs him of Mac's whereabouts. Little
does she know that the island is bugged,
allowing Mac to eavesdrop on their
conversation.
After they complete the theft, Mac accuses
Gin of planning to sell the mask to a buyer
in Kuala Lumpur, and then turn him in. Gin
convinces him that her insurance agency job
is a cover up, and that she has planned an
even bigger job in Kuala Lumpur: $8 billion
from the International Clearance Bank in the
Petronas Towers. After having orchestrated
the theft - to take place in the final
seconds of the New Year's eve Millenium
countdown - Gin and Mac escape via hanging
Christmas lights and ventilation shafts.
While Gin has lost her parachute in the
escape, Mac gives her his. He tells her to
meet her the next morning at the station at
6:30 AM. The next morning, Gin arrives at
the station waiting for Mac. Minutes away
from the planned time, he shows up with Cruz
and the FBI. Mac nearly hands Gin over to
the FBI, knowing that she was a master thief
herself. He explains that the CIA has been
looking for her for some time. When he was
caught, Mac made a deal with the agency to
help them arrest Gin. Still, the aging thief
has another plan to let her go, as he is
getting old and she has got her life ahead
of her. Gin persuades Mac to come with her.
She holds Mac hostage threatening to shoot
him if the agents follow her. But she tricks
them and boards a train, leaving them
behind. As the CIA agents walk away, another
train arrives, and Gin suddenly appears. She
tells Mac that she still needs him for
another job.
|
