"…Never Trust A Thief…”I have to admit to a guilty pleasure on this one - I've always liked the wonderfully cheesy "Entrapment" - especially the slightly odd yet very convincing chemistry between the young and beautiful Catherine Zeta-Jones and the old but still incredibly sexy Sean Connery.
You genuinely feel that Connery fancies Jones and she likewise - and apparently that was the case. You can see that Connery actually likes and admires the ballsy Jones and it gives the film a great dynamic. They actually seemed to be enjoying themselves rather than just grinning and bearing it.
Which is a shame, because I was hoping that this would be a decent buy on BLU RAY, but it isn't.
The principal reason is not the film itself (which is very entertaining), but the way it was filmed. There's a sort of filtered haze over at least 75% of the print (possibly hiding someone's age my dear?) that now looks even worse - accentuated by its transfer to the mercilessness of High Def. The picture isn't crap, but it's NOT 1080P DEFINED either - and it's absolutely NOT AN IMPROVEMENT over say a dirt-cheap DVD. "Entrapment" on BLU RAY looks murky and poorly executed most of the time - and for a film that was issued in 1999, that's just not good enough.
The Extra Feature is a commentary by Director Jon Amiel, but that's all (no making of, no interviews). Presentation is in Letterbox 16:9 (so it fills the full screen) and languages include French, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Dutch and English For The Hard-Of-Hearing.
I'd say hire this before you buy it blind. I paid six pounds for it in a Megastore sale and it was a fiver too much.
In a slew of badly transferred movies to this great but sometimes frustrating format, this is yet another sloppy release.
One to avoid I'm afraid.
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