Now You See Me (2013) BRRip Dual Audio
Ratings: 7.3/10
Directed by: Louis Leterrier
Genre(s): Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Star Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Common, Mark Ruffalo
Genre(s): Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Star Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Common, Mark Ruffalo
Released On: 31 May 2013
DESCRIPTION: Four magicians each answer a mysterious summons to an obscure address with secrets inside. A year later, they are the Four Horseman, big time stage illusionists who climax their sold out Las Vegas show with a bank apparently robbed for real. This puts agents Dylan Rhodes of the FBI and Alma Dray of Interpol on the case to find out how they did it. However, this mystery proves difficult to solve even with the insights of the professional illusion exposer, Thaddeus Bradley. What follows is a bizarre investigation where nothing is what it seems with illusions, dark secrets and hidden agendas galore as all involved are reminded of a great truth in this puzzle: the closer you look, the less you see…..
Review
A cross between The Prestige and The Usual Suspects (souped up with some sly action sequences), Now You See Me, Louis Leterrier‘s crime comedy about magicians, has a first-rate setup but lacks the punch of anything extraordinary. It aims for the winking smarts of Penn and Teller, but ends up being as routine as a guy making coins appear out of kids’ noses at a birthday party.
The brilliant high concept involves four talented magicians — close-up magic expert J. Daniel Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg), his former assistant and now renowned escape artist Henley Reeves (Isla Fisher), hypnotist and self-proclaimed mentalist Merritt McKinney (Woody Harrelson), and stealthy pickpocket Jack Wilder (Dave Franco) — who each receive an invitation to show up at a particular New York City apartment building on a certain day at an exact time.
They do so, and one year later they have joined forces in an act known as The Four Horsemen, performing to sold-out crowds at a casino owned by millionaire Arthur Tressler . When the foursome seemingly swipe millions from a French bank on-stage, The Horsemen come under the suspicion of professional magician debunker Thaddeus Bradley — who has grown wealthy and famous revealing tricks of the trade — as well as Detective Dylan Rhodes , who is put in charge of the investigation alongside French Interpol official Alma Dray .
The heist at the beginning turns out to be just the first step in a master plan for these talented performers, but we in the audience are never sure who is orchestrating it all. At one time or another, almost every character in the film becomes the focus of our suspicions, but time and again a person intones some piece of advice along the lines of, “The closer you look, the less you’ll see.”
There is pleasure to be had with actors this talented. Harrelson is consistently amusing as the most con-artist-like of the group, Eisenberg does his smugly superior thing to perfection, Freeman is having a blast playing a character who is himself having a blast, and Ruffalo anchors it all as the intense cop who always seems two or three steps behind his elusive prey.
If only screenwriters Boaz Yakin, Ed Solomon, and Edward Ricourt had thought up some deeper themes for the movie, it might have stuck with the audience. But instead of leaving us awestruck or impressed, the final beats of the story reveal it to be about something routine and mundane. So many pictures about magic focus on the art of misdirection, and while purposeful distraction is certainly a key component to the allure of prestidigitation as well as storytelling, what leaves an audience filled with wonder is the reveal of something seemingly impossible. Now You See Me never comes up with an ending that justifies the incessant misdirections that make up the bulk of the film.
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