THOMAS Crown is a self made man, wanting for nothing. Except perhaps a little excitement.
He is a Wall St raider, buying and selling companies with as little more thought or effort than a salesman selling a car.
He owns the mid-city New York office block he works out of,   jets off to the Caribbean at a whim, thinks nothing of wrecking a $100,000 racing cat for little more than the thrill of the splash ... and he steals Monets for kicks.

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The Thomas Crown Affair is a remake of a much older movie (but at least the makers were up front about it). The original screened on TV a couple of weeks ago and, although I set out to watch it, I really couldn't bring myself to mellow down to the pace of the few minutes I did watch. So on those grounds I will make no comparison between the two except to note the fact that Fay Dunnaway appears in both!
I was forewarned that the similarities between The Thomas Crown Affair and Entrapment were so close as to be annoying. Forewarned is forearmed, as they say, so I went to see it with a certain amount of pre-judgement. You see, my source told me that the movie I judged the more enjoyable would likely be the one I saw first. Well I have to say she was wrong on this occasion.
The similarities are there all right. The super rich art thief who steals for kicks chased by the cunning, sexy insurance investigator who straight out tells her man that she knows what his game is and will catch him at it. Then there's the bit where he takes her to his remote castle and tells her he never brings anyone else here. In fact this passage of dialog is, for all intents and purposes, identical in both movies (possibly all three).
After this, however, the plots diverge a little. Entrapment takes the high-altitude danger and excitement route while Thomas Crown sticks to, I believe, more entertaining intrigue.
The spark (and sparks) generated between Rene Ruso and Pierce Brosnan were, by far, more entertaining, and (dare I say more believable) than the relationship between Catherine Zeta-Jones and Sean Connery. The main love scene in Thomas Crown was as exciting as it was entertaining. Two naked bodies thrashing around bathed in sweat ... doing it on the floor ... doing it on the stairs ... doing it on the office desk... until Thomas comes up for air to announce, breathlessly, that it was magnificent. But wait there's more...
Check out the official Thomas Crown Affair website