Sean Connery was a lovely actor...very talented and a guy who made a lot of amazing films. But late in his career, his films took a definite turn for the worse...mostly due to poor writing and ridiculous plots. It also didn't help that he often played guys who seemed more like 30-40 year-olds when he was 70-something. While not nearly as bad as "The Avengers" (1998) and "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", "Entrapment" is clearly one of these later poorly written films. The film LOOKS good but is amazingly goofy due to the limp writing.

In this film, Catherine Zeta-Jones stars as Gin, a woman who probably is working with authorities to bring in a master criminal, Mac (Sean Connery). While this could have worked well, the script was a major letdown. Sometimes, the heists are ridiculous and over the top. Sometimes, the dialog and repartee between Zeta-Jones and Connery is ridiculous (she sure seems to get naked a lot in front of elderly Connery). The worst of the latter is that although Zeta-Jones is supposed to be playing a brilliant, talented and capable woman....she cries four different times through the course of the film! As a result, she comes off like a little girl trying to play an adult and her character just seems silly.

The bottom line is that there are tons of great heist films, such as "Rififi", "Grand Slam", "Oceans Eleven" and many others....so why watch a poorly written and often illogical film like "Entrapment"?

Entrapment casts Catherine Zeta-Jones as an insurance investigator anxious to earn her spurs in the business by capturing notorious thief Sean Connery. Connery is looking every bit sixty plus years of age, but he's in good shape and while he lives pretty good as is, he's always up for a challenge.

Zeta-Jones is sent by her boss Will Patton to capture Connery. But Connery is up to anything she can throw at him. Her best bet could be to capture him in the act of pulling a job, but after a while just who is leading who on.

Entrapment boasts some nice location cinematography in Connery's native Scotland and in Kuala Lampur where the big caper takes place. It's a bank job, but in the computer age it's something different if you're going after a big score. Connery showing his age asks quite innocently 'where's the loot?'

How will it go for Zeta-Jones? Well bad guys seem to have more fun and Patton is such a drip. Ving Rhames is in this as well and his role is most ambiguous.

The aging Sean Connery still has some great moves in Entrapment.

Virginia Baker (Catherine Zeta-Jones) works for an insurance company, and suspects old master thief Robert MacDougal (Sean Connery) is responsible for the latest improbable theft of a high price artwork. She tracks him down to propose stealing a valuable mask.

This has a very weak cat and mouse game between CZJ and Conner. It's more innuendo and sexual gamesmanship than actual compelling story. None of it is worthwhile. The two leads would work better as a grandfather granddaughter team, and has as much sexual chemistry as that. It's an excuse for CZJ to roll around in skin tight clothing and get caught naked. As for the capers and exotic locations, they are a bit of fun distraction. It's kind of sad to see Sean Connery in this.