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Now you see me (2013) - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 09-30-2013
Okay, I have a soap box and this is it. Much like Burt Wonderstone, this movie is about magicians. And like Burt Wonderstone they use camera tricks to do the illusions rather than actual legerdemain. Right at the top, they show a magician doing flourishes with a deck of cards, then they show a close-up of Jesse Eisenberg. It's supposed to be Jesse doing the flourishes but then never do the shot where you can see Eisenberg with the deck in his hand.
Basically four magicians are brought together to put on a series of illusions which rob banks and give the money to their audience. Morgan Freeman (It was the Morgan Freeman weekend) plays the magician who is telling Mark Ruffalo of the FBI how they are stealing all this money right under their noses.
The story was supposed to be slick and clever and all I kept thinking was well that is dumb. It's trying to be this clever caper film with impossible robberies which when you give it a seconds thought are impossible and only works because they are in a movie. But you have Freeman explaining how the tricks were actually done to make it seem plausible. But that didn't work.
Grrr. I say no.
I'm with ya on this, G - Drunk Monk - 10-07-2013
I didn't want to see this based on the trailer, but my family got the idea that it might be family friendly, which it was in a totally boring sort of way. They were kind of into it until about half way through, at which point they had to agree with my initial appraisal (not based on G's review above, mind you, that was just reaffirming to my gut response based on the trailer).
I kept thinking that some writer thought they had a few clever ideas, but didn't think them through enough to see that they were totally implausible. Either that, or the director just turned it all into empty spectacle. If you're going to do a good magician film, reveal the trick ala Penn & Teller. Don't just do special effects. That's not a magician film. It's a wizard film (and we have plenty of those already). Every guy in the cast plays an annoying prick, exacerbating the overall irritation that someone had the megabudget to bring this to screen. The only redeeming performance was Mélanie Laurent, but certainly don't see this for her. The bottom line for this film is teased by the title - now you don't.