goldfussmikey
The editing and acting was on point. However, it felt like a cheap remake of The Prestige/The Illusionist meets Oceans 11. I found the entire thing unoriginal with cheap camera tricks showing the magic tricks. The movie sets up the plot so the audience expects something spectacular and smart, but it ends up being a cheap way out. I was engaged throughout the entire thing but was left disappointed at the end. Maybe I had high hopes for a magic trick flick.
barbaraineslucena-04982
One of my favorite movies. Genius. Loved it. Definitely worth a watch!
BA_Harrison
A team of Las Vegas illusionists called The Four Horsemen pull off a series of spectacular heists, donating their ill-gotten gains to their needy audiences.I cannot say that I wasn't entertained to some degree by Now You See Me's sheer preposterousness: I find it hard to completely hate unabashed nonsense on such a grand scale. Clearly, the film's greatest trick was getting the green-light in the first place. I'd like to know how they did that!Ridiculous plot twists abound, countless scenes are left unexplained, and characters conveniently behave exactly as the convoluted plot demands. It's all so far-fetched, and yet played with such seriousness, I was sure there would be an incredibly clever and hugely satisfying pay-off that would make it all worthwhile. Sadly, director Louis Leterrier fails to pull the rug from under the viewer's feet with a mind-blowingly brilliant ending. What he actually delivers is even more ludicrous than all that has gone before. And that takes some doing.
LunaC76
The first thing that strikes me was that I had to watch it twice, for it was boring as hell, so just to be fair and give it a chance I lost, how much?...2-3 hours of my life? Shoot. :D Second thing was, if I was an actor in this "movie", I would be scared shitless that this movie will end my career. Well, it should. I cannot look at either one of the actors/actresses the same as before. Horrible acting, no chemistry, each one of them is annoying, I really don't know at this point what was worst, the script or their acting?...This movie summarizes all that is wrong with Hollywood. Unbelievably pretentious, out of touch with reality, fake characters, script ordered to be written to make money...fast! It is like licking honey through the glass...form over substance. There is no substance.
AD
