Friday 17 January 2014

Now You See Me Review


Director: Louis Leterrier                                                                                   Runtime:  115 min
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Main Cast:  Jesse Eisenberg, Common, Mark Ruffalo   
Trailer:                                                     

Review:
Four magicians find themselves together after they accept a mysterious summons through tarot cards. After a year together they become known as the four horsemen and are playing as a sold out headliner at a Las Vegas casino. The show ends with an apparent bank robbery of a bank in France which seems to actually get robbed. Due to the serious nature of the robbery the FBI tasks agent Dylan Rhodes (Mark Ruffalo) and Alma Dray (Mélanie Laurent) of Interpol to the case. During the investigation more shows take place with major robberies in each leaving the FBI struggling to keep up. Even after speaking with professional illusion exposer, Thaddeus Bradley (Morgan Freeman), more mysteries start to unfold leaving this movie with plenty of twists and turns.

Now You See Me is an awesome magic movie on par with those of the past, like illusionist. The movie has an all-star cast with each person performing brilliantly. The movie also switches between grand tricks that have been shown in real life as well as those made with ‘movie magic’ which blends incredible well making all the tricks seem believable leaving feeling in awe. There is even a nice fight scene added in the middle that mix’s physical strikes with magic attacks that looks amazingly well done. The story itself follows a pattern with that use’s large amounts of hints as to what actually going giving it the feel of a good mystery with the big reveal at the end. Even the special effects look stunning throughout the entire movie. As magician mysteries go, I’d say this one rates highly and I would strongly recommend.

I give Now You See Me a 5/5 rating.
★★★★★

- Robert

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