Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Now you see me movie review

Cast: Isla Fisher, Mark Ruffalo, Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Morgan Freeman, Melanie Laurent
Director: Louis Leterrier
Running time: 1 hour and 56 minutes
  The movie starts out with introducing us to four magicians,played by Eisenberge, Fisher, Harrelson and Franco. Those magicians are brought together by an anonymous source,who helps them gain fame and success. One year later we meet again with our magicians only this time they are performing in Las Vegas and they are called "The Four Horsemen".Their magic show has become infamous and it now consists of ... robbing a bank while on stage performing. This robbery gets the Horsemen into trouble when FBI agent, Mark Ruffalo, and Interpol agent, Melanie Laurent, try to prove the heist and arrest them.There to help them get proof is a former magician who is now revealing the secrets behind other magicians' tricks portrayed by Morgan Freeman.
  Magic tricks are pretty cool.And this movie has a lot of them.The fact that there is "magic"  in the film makes it instantly more  interesting.So people are intrigued from the begging.I,also, liked that, even though the horsemen claimed that the bank robbery was done with magic, we actually learn how it was done fairly quickly.There was a logical explanation,that was actually pretty smart,and if it wasn't revealed early on it would have driven me crazy.
  On the other hand,i found many faults with this movie,which i didn't expect.First of all who were the lead roles?Was it the horsemen?Was it the FBI guy?Was it both of them?I'm not sure and it doesn't really matter to me,which brings me to my second point: I didn't really like anyone in this movie.The horsemen were arrogant jerks,the agent was losing all the time and the ex-magician was average for me.I couldn't route for anyone since i didn't like anyone and that pissed me off because i ended up not caring about the movie.I was really disappointed.Moreover, i though that we didn't see a lot of the horsemen.We learn nothing about them and we don't get much personality out of them except that they are kind of full of themselves.That contributed to the "i didn't like anyone" argument even more.Furthermore,the police or FBI or whatever it was is depicted as totally incompetent.They are 100 steps behind at all times with no clue.It gets annoying at some point.And i didn't expect that the horsemen would be caught but the FBI didn't even come close (and the revelation at the end doesn't excuse this for me).Also,i felt that the magic tricks were getting a little bit too "magic-y" as we were getting near the end.They were too perfect and too unbelievable for me.But i think that wasn't an issue for many people so it could be just me.I don't know.Maybe i am too much of a sceptic.Finally, i feel that the "eye" was underexplained,if that's even a word.I would have liked for it to be explained further and more deeply so we could've understood it better.
  In conclusion, i was really disappointed with this movie.I expected much more but it's definitely not in my "worst movies" list.Watch it of you like extravagant magic performances.
Score:49%

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Courtesy
Summit Entertainment

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