NOW YOU SEE ME pits an elite FBI squad in a game of cat and mouse
against "The Four Horsemen", a super-team of the world's greatest
illusionists. "The Four Horsemen" pull off a series of daring heists
against corrupt business leaders during their performances, showering
the stolen profits on their audiences while staying one step ahead of
the law.
The Guardian Review
Overcooked, overcomplicated and underinteresting, this heist caper turns into a mess. Jesse Eisenberg , Isla Fisher, Woody Harrelson and Dave Franco play four funky magicians who are recruited by a mysterious individual to form an Avengers-style unit of conjuror-superheroes who are going to use their illusionist skills to pull off the most dazzling bank raid of all time.
Now You See Me
Production year: 2013
Countries: Rest of the world, USA
Cert (UK): 12A
Runtime: 115 mins
Directors: Louis Leterrier
Cast: Dave Franco, Isla Fisher, Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Melanie Laurent, Morgan Freeman, Sir Michael Caine, Woody Harrelson
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The opening 10 minutes are reasonably entertaining – crucially, this is the section of the movie not about bank-robbing – but it just gets tangled, wildly implausible and dull, and the quartet's mastery of the ordinary non-magic skills necessary in large-scale theft is entirely unconvincing, and no amount of narrative misdirection can get around this. Magic might in theory be an interesting subject for a movie: magic and cinema share their origins in the fairground tents of old. But I find that, although great when experienced for real, magic is always liable to look pointless and unsatisfying in the context of a fiction film. The magicians themselves have to be interesting characters, quite aside from their supposed skills. That trick doesn't come off.
Overcooked, overcomplicated and underinteresting, this heist caper turns into a mess. Jesse Eisenberg , Isla Fisher, Woody Harrelson and Dave Franco play four funky magicians who are recruited by a mysterious individual to form an Avengers-style unit of conjuror-superheroes who are going to use their illusionist skills to pull off the most dazzling bank raid of all time.
Now You See Me
Production year: 2013
Countries: Rest of the world, USA
Cert (UK): 12A
Runtime: 115 mins
Directors: Louis Leterrier
Cast: Dave Franco, Isla Fisher, Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Melanie Laurent, Morgan Freeman, Sir Michael Caine, Woody Harrelson
The opening 10 minutes are reasonably entertaining – crucially, this is the section of the movie not about bank-robbing – but it just gets tangled, wildly implausible and dull, and the quartet's mastery of the ordinary non-magic skills necessary in large-scale theft is entirely unconvincing, and no amount of narrative misdirection can get around this. Magic might in theory be an interesting subject for a movie: magic and cinema share their origins in the fairground tents of old. But I find that, although great when experienced for real, magic is always liable to look pointless and unsatisfying in the context of a fiction film. The magicians themselves have to be interesting characters, quite aside from their supposed skills. That trick doesn't come off.
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