Plot hole: Catherine Zeta Jones says that she needs ten extra seconds after midnight to download the program that collects the billions of dollars from the international bank. In the movie at two different point, she states that after 11:00 PM the device she linked to the clock is gathering an extra 1/10 of a second every minute to allow for ten seconds at midnight. If you take a tenth of a second a minute for 60 minutes, you end up with only 6 seconds. 4 seconds short of the required 10. Some people say she only says "a fraction", but she explains the scenario twice. In one instance, she indeed says a fraction, the other time she definitely says 1/10th of a second, which is wrong.
Entrapment (1999)
1 plot hole
Directed by: Jon Amiel
Starring: Sean Connery, Ving Rhames, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Will Patton
Continuity mistake: When Catherine Zeta-Jones practices with the bells and strings maze, she is careful to lift her left leg over one of the first strings, then brings her body through, and then brings her right leg over the string. Too bad when she does the heist of the mask for real, she lifts her left leg over the unseen laser beam but keeps her arms dangling as she brings her right leg over. This would have set off the alarm because she forgot to lift her arms over the laser beam!
Gin: This is called entrapment!
Mac: No, actually it's called blackmail. Entrapment is what cops do to thieves.
Trivia: The street that Sean Connery is parked in waiting for Zeta-Jones to leave the antiques shop, is the same one that Hagrid and Harry walked down in the Philosopher's Stone when they are heading for the Leaky Cauldron.
Question: Is it actually possible to get on to a moving train as implied in the very last scene?
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Answer: Unless the train stopped, it is absolutely impossible for someone, particularly a senior man and a woman in a tight skirt and high heels, to be able to jump onto a moving commuter train, and on one that would have automatic doors.
raywest ★
HA! A looser skirt and flat-heeled shoes wouldn't improve the odds.
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