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Film Clips
MAY 17, 1999:
 ENTRAPMENT. A rather lifeless crime spree, weighed down
by mediocre plotting and a plodding script. Sean Connery stars
as an aging art thief out for one last heist. Catherine Zeta-Jones
emphasizes her assets as a young criminal hoping to get a good
start by falling in love with Connery and stealing
$8 billion. Lots of prancing about in tight clothing, James Bond-type
gadgetry and unlikely sexual tension shove the story forward,
though you'll probably get a better crime drama by staying home
and watching Rockford Files reruns. --DiGiovanna
PUSHING TIN. John Cusack plays a hotshot air-traffic controller
whose suburban life couldn't be more blah. You know: tons of friends,
quiet children, solid sex life (with Queen Elizabeth!), and a
regular table at The Quaintest Italian Restaurant in the World.
But when Billy Bob Thornton arrives on the scene as a rugged Southwestern
controller who uses the Force and is always accompanied by his
own twangy sound, Cusack feels threatened, because he does not
have a twangy sound. Plus Billy Bob really has the stuff, which
includes not only wife Angelina Jolie (who wears a big neon sign
over her head that flashes "Hot, Pouty Sex"), but also
the Infinite Mystery of Manhood as only a guy named Billy Bob
can personify. Cusack becomes so obsessed, you half-expect him
to grow a mustache and buy a leather cap. Instead, Pushing
Tin veers into realms of infidelity, guilt, jealousy, demoralization,
and somehow arrives back where it started, in the world of air-traffic
controllers. It only makes sense in an air-headed sitcom way,
but it remains watchable thanks to the four main actors. They're
so appealing they could throw hamsters at a wall for two hours
and you'd still stay for the credits. --Woodruff
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