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Turn your brain off and enjoy...
At this time, at that place are already 530 reviews for "Now You lot See Information technology", then I'll try to be cursory. The film is well-nigh a group of four magicians and mentalists who have been given a bright plan by an unseen genius. Once more and once again, the quartet perform seemingly impossible stunts and always seem many steps alee of the police. And, in the process, they do HUGE magic tricks that are pretty much impossible. The presentation is VERY smooth and very slick and the overall production looks cracking. It has great music and effects. But, on the negative side none of this really makes a lot of sense and there is no style you can savor it if y'all think. This is peculiarly truthful at the end (where in that location is a profession of beloved that comes from admittedly no where!!)--which is a gigantic cliché and made no sense whatsoever. The bottom line is that if you turn off y'all brain and enjoy it on a very superficial level, you'll bask it. If you endeavour to make sense of it all, your head will explode. 'Nuff said.
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Promising idea sunk in key areas
"Now Y'all See Me" came out of nowhere and became the sleeper hit of 2013, getting expert word of oral fissure during its theatrical run. Having seen the movie for myself, I am kind of puzzled by its popularity. Certainly, the moving picture is far from the worst movies I accept ever seen - it's colorful, and doesn't have a expressionless spot despite running virtually two hours long.
Simply at that place were some things about the moving-picture show that annoyed me enough to prevent me from liking it. The biggest problem is with the characters. Except for Freeman's character, in that location is not ane likable character in the pic. The law enforcement agents investigating the magicians are loud and obnoxious, and the 4 magicians come up beyond equally extremely smug. (Besides, there is no endeavour to give the magicians real and split personalities - they all act alike.)
The characters were the principal reason why I didn't like this movie, but there were other problems every bit well. One other major annoyance is the depiction of the magic acts. They have been jazzed up with CGI and other special effects and then they don't feel similar REAL magic acts - they come beyond as artificial. Also, every bit the movie progresses, the diverse feats the magicians pull off slowly become more than unbelievable (and non fully explained) that eventually I wanted to cry out loud, "Oh, Come up ON!" Less slight of manus and a more realistic approach would have been a much better arroyo.
(Annotation to Michael Caine fans: His role is really simply an extended cameo appearance.)
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Now yous come across me...but I wish I hadn't
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I remember seeing the trailers for this and I thought it really looked nifty. Reading some of the reviews on here, many of them "claim" that people with a depression IQ dislike the film. Well, I don't mean to toot my own horn but I don't think I'thousand a stupid individual and I've seen thousands of movies...more your average joe because I love movies. Even so, this was a stone cold dud. Decent bandage, some existent twists and turns simply a blatantly complicated plot line that makes piffling sense and tries fashion likewise difficult only to exist complex. A truly smart film can be smart and tricky without trying SO hard. Now You lot Run into Me simply throws in all kinds of tricks and twists without any build up or thinking virtually whether or non information technology makes sense. It was a very interesting experience when the large terminal twist of the picture was revealed and everyone in the theatre I was in gasped and and then that was immediately followed past many people whispering "That'south dumb," "That doesn't make sense." They are exactly right. The large twist has no background laid for it and makes no sense at all but by that time you lot are so completely lost in the featherbrained story that you won't care that it doesn't make sense.
The bandage certainly is not the outcome for this film. The cast is actually pretty good. I'm just surprised they actually signed on to this merely and so over again it is making okay money at the box part. I didn't much care for Jesse Eisenberg'south graphic symbol. That's not to say he didn't do a good chore, I simply didn't like him much. His character is smug and egotistical but fits the role nicely and carries the cast well. I thought Woody Harrelson was excellent in his office as a mentalist that tin can anesthetize. He was probably my favourite graphic symbol and notwithstanding there wasn't a lot done with him which is unfortunate. Isla Fisher and Dave Franco I lump together because while they were practiced they were more often than not underused and sort of the sidekicks to Eisenberg and Harrelson almost of the time. I think if I was making a film like this I would ensure the four of them share an equal corporeality of screen time and take stiff characters. But they do well. Mark Ruffalo is the FBI amanuensis trying to become to the bottom of the grouping of thieves. Ruffalo is good, shows lots of intensity and the appropriate amount of angst for cop vs robbers. Unfortunately for her I idea Mélanie Laurent was very near pointless. I suppose she was there to give the audience yet another possible suspect, and besides to give Ruffalo a romance but both those angles were completely unnecessary and her monotone line delivery was enough to put yous to slumber. Finally, we take two legends Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine. The best scenes in this flick easily are the ones with just the 2 of them on screen because their chemical science and on screen charisma is enough to carry whatever scene. Still they are definitely blatantly used for their proper name power and the weak script does nothing for them.
Given director Louis Leterrier is a talented director, I'm surprised at really how bad the picture was shot. Were there some nicely shot scenes? Yep there was but few and far betwixt. I take actually seen all of Leterrier'south films and this was by far the worst of them. I will give props to them in the opening scene when they play a magic trick that really worked on me...they picked the car that I picked...I wonder if it works on everyone? After that the moving-picture show falls into a complex web of lies and deceit and completely silly twists and turns that make little to no sense. Mayhap there are two many easily in the pot. There are no less than v screenwriters and story artists on the moving-picture show. Its hard enough to detect ii writers that can jive and work together let alone 5. Basically, At present Y'all Encounter Me was a huge disappointment for me. In a summertime of blockbusters you need something better than this. iv/10
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trying desperately hard to be more intelligent than it is
Overall a showman of a film. Flashy, loud with bells and whistles and big personalities, an exciting premise... illusionists rob banks using (supposed) magic just the four horsemen are but puppets in a game, but the hype is more than than the substance of the motion-picture show itself.
You'd wait suspense, twists, intelligent plot misdirection and all sorts of thrilling viewing? No. This film tries to exist a lot more than intelligent than it actually is. Similar Atlas (Eisenberg) says, "Always be the well-nigh intelligent person in the room" or something similar, this film thinks it is being intelligent but actually it'southward not challenging enough. It gives as well much away, isn't as unpredictable every bit it should exist (really, you couldn't come across that ending coming?) and just isn't equally clever every bit it promises. The tricks I actually wanted explaining weren't... the ones that were more than obvious, were explained. The ending actually isn't a denouement, as it's been laying clues all along - and anyone who's seen a lot of films tin can meet the "twists" coming a mile away. I focus on the twists and reveal because as a heist picture, the end is the large reveal. Only, unlike Oceans Eleven, for example, it has more or less handed information technology to you on a plate already.
The actors were good. Morgan Freeman and Woody Harrelson stealing the show, of grade, with Dave Franco doing a bang up task with some incredible concrete acting, stunts and so forth. I'm afraid Jesse Eisenberg didn't convince in his character and was annoying later a while, Franco rather underutilised really. Isla Fisher was good but clearly the "glamour" rather than a serious character, which was a shame every bit she was good.
This was supposed to be a big blockbuster moving-picture show, big dorsum drops, epic stunts and huge crowd scenes, just it failed to deliver. As heist/magic genre films go information technology'southward not that bully, and The Prestige was far more cerebral and gripping. Entertaining to a betoken but I got a bit bored, and some of the scenes were too long - chases etc. If y'all are a fan of heist films or magic you'll relish information technology, or are a fan of item actors, or volition but relish it for what it is and don't want to be challenged intellectually, it's a keen picture. I think Hollywood endings are just likewise commonplace. 6/ten for me.
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Great, if you like ridiculous films
Hollywood seems obsessed by making films about magicians where the magicians plough out to have real magical powers. I've seen a sure mainstream moving picture in the past that did the aforementioned affair and I hated it for cheating the viewer. NOW YOU SEE ME isn't as blatant equally that, but information technology still has 1 ridiculous scene after some other which would have been physically impossible in existent life, thus making this a delusional fantasy of a flick. Having all the magic washed in-camera without cutting away would have done much to remedy this state of affairs.
A trouble of having an over-confident group of protagonists in a movie is that their characters are all annoying, and that's the case here. A smug Jesse Eisenberg is the worst, but Woody Harrelson is little better. Isla Fisher merely seems to be around so she tin show off her body in tight clothes and push-upwards bras. Marking Ruffalo and Melanie Laurent do better as the cops investigating the cons, but information technology'due south left to the seasoned old-timers Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine to give the most professional person performances.
In any case, Now You lot See ME is an unlikeable film. At that place's a lot of incident going on here, and with it a lot of cheese. The CGI effects of fire and the similar are very disappointing. Throwing in random car chases and fight scenes is over the top and doesn't work very well at all, as by the cease information technology all seems rather overblown and pointless. Needless to say that this was a hit in America and a sequel has followed. Cracking, I can't look.
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At present We Fool You
Iv magicians reply a mysterious call to work for an obscure hush-hush social club. A yr later, they call themselves the Four Horseman, and create havoc with their magic. Their first trick to rob a depository financial institution, drawing the FBI and Interpol into a cat and mouse game. J. Daniel Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg), Merritt McKinney (Woody Harrelson), Henley Reeves (Isla Fisher), and Jack Wilder (Dave Franco) are the four magicians. Dylan Rhodes (Marking Ruffalo) is the FBI agent.
The group has nifty chemical science and their interactions accept great free energy. They have a fun fourth dimension being interrogated past Mark Ruffalo. Information technology's a promising start as a fun interesting movie that gives the states a little insight into magicians. So information technology turns.
Information technology becomes all flash and little substance. The heists keep coming. It's like the movie is its own trick. They keep pumping up the flash in guild to disguise the lack of a good story. The final twist is just fool's gold. In that location is no foreshadowing. It'southward done for its daze value. Sadly, by then I was out of shock. All sound and fury signifying cypher.
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Watchable but lacks depth & substance
This is one of those movies that is somewhat entertaining upon first viewing but is easily forgettable and has nothing of substance to make a second viewing possible to enjoy. The plot is convoluted as we don't know what the main characters are doing or why. In fact, everything we know near the 4 magicians is revealed in the first 10 minutes of the picture and after that at that place is Zip grapheme development! The entire motion picture appears to take been made solely for the sake of the ending and yet it was so cliché that I was actually a petty aroused nearly the way they did it. It'due south unfortunate that in the filmmaker's attempts to be clever they neglected the most fundamental elements of storytelling: plot and character.
Like a magic evidence without magic, you may notice yourself somewhat entertained just inevitably wind up disappointed in the end because they left out the virtually important part of the testify.
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Like a Vegas Show, Entertaining but Lacking of Much Else
Imagine At present You See Me as Ocean's Eleven meets The Prestige and you sort of get what director Louis Leterrier was going for with this film. Is At present You See Me every bit successful every bit the aforementioned films? Not necessarily, simply it's a fun movie that deconstructs the acts of modern magicians.
The story follows iv Vegas magicians, known as the 4 Horsemen, who rob a bank in the middle of 1 of their shows. What follows is a cat-and-mouse thriller where the FBI chases later on these magicians, always i step behind, trying to effigy out how they did information technology.
Where Now You Meet Me works best is when Leterrier creates cinematic sequences showing us how these magicians used existent-life magic tricks to befuddle and gull both their victims and the FBI. Too, if you want a film with twists and turns, this one will not disappoint. While near of the major twists tin be found out before revealed, at that place is still a joy in watching those twists unfold, thank you to Leterrier's Sherlock Holmes' mode of visual deduction. However, the script often falters in 1 of the most crucial areas, that of character.
Leterrier and company are constantly trying to balance the breakneck pace with the large cast of characters, and it just leaves the characters hanging out to dry. Character development is sorely lacking in Now You See Me, to where I never really cared about any of the characters. Part of this is because the film is constantly shifting points of view. The first thirty minutes follow our Robin Hood-like magicians, and so information technology switches to the FBI agents tracking them down, just then the movie has the magicians constantly i pace in front of the FBI to the signal that it makes the FBI frequently come across every bit buffoons, and I notice it hard to treat characters who are then easily fooled. Ultimately, I feel that had the flick focused entirely on ane set of characters, like the magicians or the FBI, the film would take been stronger and been easier to notice a focal point, but as it is the moving-picture show's core is frequently muddled.
While Now You lot See Me may not exist a yard slam, it'south still entertaining, thanks to the thrills and visual style of the film. Bottom line, if yous're a fan of the heist genre, you lot'll like this picture. For me though, it but lacks a further script rewrite to take go i of the best examples of the genre.
I give Now You See Me an 8 out of x!
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The greatest play a trick on always pulled is to make anyone believe this film has a coherent story.
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I believe the target audition (and mayhap even the writer) are all fourteen twelvemonth old boys who think magicians can practice annihilation they desire. I beloved a skillful sci-fi setting and I can have some actually fringe premises if the moving picture exploit them in a proficient way. This motion picture just relies on the audition swallowing everything and never questioning anything. If you start to pull any of the many loose ends it all falls autonomously faster than you can say bullshit.
I wanted to write this whitout spoilers, but the plot has given me a itch I can not scratch.
Outset, they stole 140 million by knowing the guys first pets name!?? Exercise they suggest the bank secure their assets with a unproblematic countersign recovery scheme like that? I don't begin to sympathise. Are they seriuous? Why didn't they just say they hypnoticed him into withdrawing the money. Fifty-fifty thow that is non possible information technology is far more believable. This is mayhap the most unbeliveble way to explain a heist I always heard of.
There is not a singel interesting or plausible event in the whole picture. Everything is merely random. The fbi guy, did he base his whole career on this unmarried moment? That is determenation and planning out of this world. But, I guess its a whole lot easier to say its just distraction and magic that did it all.
I would say that convincing people to pay for this crap is a far greater con than any of the ones presented in the picture.
I have seen allot of bad movies just they all have something if observe interesting or good in them. Except this one. I cant find whatever affair positive to say. Stay articulate.
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Disappointing
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In all fairness, I had been warned. A movie review evidence said this was less than impressive and the write-ups in impress were "luke-warm" but when the missus said lets go watch a movie, I wanted to give it a endeavor because the cast was impressive and come on, who doesn't like magic tricks???? Let'due south begin with the positives. It runs for 115 minutes which compared to The Long Ranger and anything Peter Jackson easily in is almost preview length so that was expert. Unless the consequence of decent editing is a lack of grapheme depth and then perhaps it wasn't.... but nosotros'll get to that presently.
The cast were adept. The 4 Horsemen actors were solid while Mr Freeman, Mr Caine and Mr Ruffalo only don't know how to put in a bad performance. Ms Laurent was besides quite practiced too.
Now, the negative. Whilst I liked the actors I don't like whatsoever of the characters... actually that's unfair, I don't dislike them I just don't know them. The film makers spent ten seconds giving us a back story for the main protagonists therefore giving me no cause to support their scheme. BUT THEY WERE RIGHTING A Incorrect FROM A LONG Time Ago I hear you scream!!! And this is truthful just we're not meant to know this until the final reveal......unless you worked it out every bit soon every bit Morgan Freeman mentioned it, in which case the whole movie failed as a mystery and you lot were left to make up one's mind whether to finish your coke before your popcorn or keep a footling to wash out those abrasive $.25 that become stuck between your teeth....but I digress.
I had also hoped to enjoy some magic tricks just these were all achieved with CGI so like Star Wars I,II, & III I'thousand left wishing the director refused to accept the like shooting fish in a barrel way out of disguising a less than competent script with colour and motility.
A couple of quick lessons from this movie. One, when you pretend to kill off a character in a automobile blow become at least one of their friends to look like they're upset, distressed or just annoyed that they accept to feed their true cat while they're in hiding. No one cared when the young gars was blown up in the motorcar crash then we knew he had to turn up again.
The 2d suggestion is to paraphrase Mr Eisenberg's line during questioning "the showtime rule of movie making is don't attempt to exist smartest person in the room if yous're not." Information technology just turns into a shallow mess.
I as well read with some interest that the motion picture makers were working on a sequel, which unless it's just the director and writers apologising for this effort then I won't exist attending. Now you come across me....at present you don't.
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I went in hopeful and left feeling insulted.
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"Now You See Me" has a stellar cast, a fun and intriguing premise and themes (showdown of rival magicians combined with a heist), delightful smart-assery and cunning tactics -- particularly in those scenes dominated by Jesse Eisenberg or Woody Harrelson. Oh, and it has quite dazzling action sequences. All the best parts of this film are well-packaged and sold in the gripping theatrical trailer.
I took someone I loved to "Now You Meet Me" and expected the payoff of a perfect night of amusement.
I'one thousand not impossible to delight at the movies and I actively wanted this to be a good time. I went out for entertainment and leisure and in good company and loftier spirits, not at all for the purpose of writing a disquisitional review.
What's more than, I'm a big fan of all of the raw ingredients in this pic. I relish magic and I could watch Morgan Freeman or Michael Caine in well-nigh anything (now proved.) I fully enjoyed a much better motion-picture show called "The Prestige," which might exist regarded past some equally a predecessor.
But what happened here?
Subsequently several fun scenes and a promising opening sequence that made me want to care nigh the characters, I discovered a motion picture in search of a plot and utterly defective intellectual integrity and respect for the audience. The twists and reversals weren't simply surprising, they were completely unbelievable. You didn't see it coming, but not considering of expert misdirection (the art of magicians, so often implied.)
Rather, yous didn't see information technology coming because the explanations were crooked and cooked up and merely expedient.
Especially, by late in the film when they beginning tracking backward to earlier events to show y'all how you were fooled and what was really going on the whole time -- the explanations presented are less convincing than simply assertive in real magic.
!!!Spoler Alert: Stop reading here if you lot would like to watch this movie without knowing anything almost the belatedly scenes, reveals, and reversals!!!
For case, the "Four Horsemen" stage the expiry of i of their ain by perfectly orchestrating a high-speed traffic accident on a crowded bridge. It's imperative that the car he's apparently driving flips and tumbles several times and ultimately bursts into flames.
Only information technology's equally imperative that the pursuing detective can call back a stack of papers from the wrecked car. He *must* be able to retrieve the papers simply not the body, all while getting away with his own life, or else the plot begins to unravel.
The timing is of course worked out impeccably, and information technology's carried out with no other fatalities on the bridge. And somehow the magicians accept stuffed a replacement body from the morgue into an identical car merely before turning it into a time-bomb.
The audience knows, emotionally, that the Dave Franco character shouldn't really exist expressionless (as I heard 1 person exclaim loudly during the closing sequence when "Jack Wilder" shows upwardly over again,) but the way his death is apparently faked would defy an unlimited budget and dozens of trained stunt drivers and coordinators -- unless, of course, y'all close the bridge to public traffic. Yet it's just one more than phenomenon that the Horsemen carry out with aplomb, at a frenetic pace and on-the-fly, with less than half-a-dozen full squad members, empowered past an unlimited upkeep and a mystery distributor.
All the while, apparently existent traffic zooms along with presumably untrained and unprepared public going about normal concern.
We are expected to believe that the mode Hollywood makes a high-speed accident occur without killing anybody can be done by a handful of highly motivated professional phase magicians (read: amateurs to road stunts) and somehow this can be accomplished without completely controlled environment.
This elaborately and improbably faked high-speed death scene is merely one case of the film jumping into an explanation of "how information technology really happened" that seems less probable and less believable than *anything* you could have guessed before being told.
And the plot problems get much deeper than buying into death-defying scenes that crave an elimination of anything random in a busy public space. I couldn't buy the ultimate reveal about the existent identity and motives of the Mark Ruffalo character, either. It seemed incongruous. Information technology felt like a crook. The way he is planted in relation to earlier events seems like an afterthought.
And I couldn't buy that underneath his deliberate blundering and willful ignorance was someone non but much smarter than he appeared, but someone so capable of perfect planning as to be damned near all-seeing.
The total impression is of a promising motion-picture show idea that fell on its own very expensive sword. I don't know what happened, but it looks like information technology got battered and morphed around and rewritten by multiple teams of writers. The total feeling is that the story got killed and Frankensteined back together multiple times. And information technology looks like the final edit came after the director and all concerned were out of steam and over upkeep.
I felt intellectually raped, to put it bluntly. I felt similar the director was content to dazzle us with activity and effects and to take our money while demanding our total credulity on the plot points, using the angle provided by magic in a rather disingenuous manner.
This, instead of providing a coherent narrative that would allow an adult audience to cheerfully maintain a willing suspension of disbelief.
The storyline turns into a madhouse of improbabilities and then rationalizes its real business like a pathological liar. What a travesty to the promising themes of magic and old rivalries, treated so well in other recent films. And what a waste of a beautiful all-star cast, so entertaining equally individuals in the early scenes.
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All bawl no bite.
If you lot like strong and logical plots, you are probable to dislike this one. It's all nearly appearances and show in this one, rather than actually being brilliant, the characters and story just ask yous have their brilliance for granted.
The story revolves around illusionists (implicitly portrayed as demigods I would say) and how they manage to fool everyone and go a little fooled themselves. Of course, with all this fooling effectually there are always chances that something might strike the funny os, that is to say information technology has its humorous moments at present and so simply on the whole the illusions and tricks etc. is merely more of a dazzle than something logical and realistic. At that place is non much depth to the characters and a lot of misdirection to make the climax more constructive, but the misdirection only adds to the casuistic nature of the plot and makes the story hollow.
Having criticized enough the good parts for me were the self-equally-usual Jesse Eisenberg and some of the funny moments only nothing else. Fifty-fifty the dazzle of the magic tricks was made slow and plain past all the simple filler like dialogues. Final give-and-take; skip information technology unless you lot don't have a better selection for a moving picture in mind.
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Keen Trailer but Deceptive Movie with Awful Plot Bespeak
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The smalltime magicians Daniel Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg), Merritt McKinney (Woody Harrelson), Henley Reeves (Isla Fisher) and Jack Wilder (Dave Franco) are invited to attend a meeting in a weird apartment.
1 yr later, they reappear as The Four Horseman in a show in Las Vegas sponsored by the millionaire Arthur Tressler (Michael Caine) and they heist a bank in Paris from the stage and distribute the coin to the audience. The FBI agent Dylan Rhodes (Mark Ruffalo) is assigned to the instance and the Interpol sends the agent Alma Dray (Mélanie Laurent) to be his partner. Dylan and Alma are completely lost in the investigation and the exposer of illusionists Thaddeus Bradley (Morgan Freeman) gives hints about illusion. When the Four Horseman steal the banking company business relationship of Arthur Tressler during a show in New Orleans, Dylan and Alma believe that these heists are only lark for a huge scheme but they are never sure about of what is true or illusion.
"Now You Encounter Me" has a great trailer simply is a very deceptive moving picture with an awful plot betoken. The fast pace is a distraction to hibernate the plot holes from the viewers, since the story is absurd. For case, how could the Iv Horsemen build a safe without a trace? Or make the fake money? The FBI would easily rails the vendors and consequently find who bought them. The twist is cool and many scenes do not make sense, such equally Dylan chasing Jack through the garbage duct or on the bridge, just equally an example. How could the FBI not investigate the parents of the fifth horseman? The story happens in the present days, merely the technology seems to be ahead of time. This motion-picture show may work on DVD or Blu- Ray, but information technology is a waste of time and money going to the picture theater to see it. My vote is 5.
Title (Brazil): "Truque de Mestre" ("Master Trick")
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Slick all-star nonsense is still nonsense
At present Y'all Encounter Me starts out really well. A grouping of illusionists are brought together and within a twelvemonth they are playing Vegas together and announced to rob a bank in Paris remotely. This draws in the FBI and Interpol merely how tin they prove anything when it all seems and so impossible and then hard to bear witness? This setup offers a twisty and engaging plot but sadly it is ane that never gets delivered upon. Instead what nosotros get is a constantly moving film that is loaded with stars, coin and special furnishings only nothing of nay real substance.
This approach works actually well when information technology comes to the slickness of commitment and how polished information technology all feels, but information technology is so very unsatisfying every bit a whole production. The twists and turns of the picture are almost all nonsense – slickly elaborate and delivered with pace for certain, simply with nothing behind of whatever substance. As a effect I stopped caring about the plot or about working out what was going on behind the theatrics. Movement appeared to exist the all and after a while I tired of it. The slick delivery is all well and good and it is added to by the cast – then many faces, so many quality actors all getting amply paid but doing very little. It felt like a waste.
It isn't a terrible film by any means; the pace and slickness makes it work on that level but it does very little else which is engaging or memorable. It is fluff that fills the time but leaves you with nada afterward that.
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Shazam!!
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This film is about 4 magicians brought together to perform the ultimate trick...to rob a banking concern (or so they would have you lot believe). I think that'due south as far as anyone really got with the plot apart from a few obvious twists along the way. Each of the iv magicians is drafted in for their individual talents nonetheless these aren't really highlighted or explored during the motion picture in any detail. In fact in that location is no grapheme development at all which is more disappointing given the fact that the cast includes Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman among others.
So a few minutes in and they perform their robbing a bank flim-flam, the FBI human and the Interpol girl, who are somehow teamed upwards, are flummoxed so they take the magicians in for questioning. This doesn't go well for the FBI as the magicians use their mind/card tricks to outwit them and in the terminate they are let go. So the FBI calls in the help of Morgan Freeman, whose job is working out and explaining how tricks are washed, to help. He has clearly seen this all before and explains the banking concern robbery within seconds.
This is where i kind of lost interest in the film. Anyway there are some attempts at this stage to add some depth to the movie but these all fail. The confrontations between Caine and Freeman are tired and they both just seem to be going through the motions. The love involvement between the FBI man and the Interpol girl is forced and comes from nowhere. Basically she is hot and they are working on a case together then they fall in love. Even the main four cast members take no chemistry or likability.
So moving on a couple more tricks are performed and the cat and mouse game with the FBI continues. I wont ruin the disappointing end merely permit's simply say there are a few twists that anyone who has seen a movie before would have worked out past now and so the film ends.
All in all the worst film I've seen in a long fourth dimension and shame on Woody Harrelson for post-obit his first-class performance in Seven Psychopaths with this garbage.
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Weak script
At present Y'all See Me could have been a expert movie if only the writers squad, or should we say the lame duck team, took the trouble to do their job correctly.
The story is just a big, trivial articulate grab-all, riddled, from end to end, with quite flagrant incoherences, and punctuated by, probably, one of the worst twists ever. Indeed, this twist is ridiculous because totally unbelievable, it doesn't produce any upshot on the viewer, but nigh seriously it instantly annihilates the credibility of the film as a whole ! And it seems like a dream when, just before, Morgan Freeman serves us upward with a totally absurd and unrealistic demonstration... having to explicate an outcome, above all in such a didactic and unsubtle way proves well that the script doesn't hold water.
This quite incredible failure of the story inevitably cripples the movie, which anyway only possesses ii assets that are its dynamism and its cast, except the unbearable Mélanie Laurent who makes i grammatical mistake every three sentences and seems to be reciting her lines more than anything else, and Jesse Eisenberg who seems stuck in his Zuckerberg role, mumbling all the fourth dimension. As for the cinematography, it isn't fundamentally bad but very cliche — as the soundtrack — with, for example, a lot of circus shots, a technique Leterrier used and abused of, apparently as little inspired as his writers.
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Unique, Keeps You on the Border of Your Seat with All its Twists and Turns
I admittedly dear this film. "At present Yous See Me" is like nothing I've ever seen before. "Now You Run into Me" tells the story of a grouping of magicians called The Four Horsemen who apply their skills to pull off some of the greatest international robberies of their generation. Featuring Daniel Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg), Merritt McKenny (Woody Harrelson), Henley Reeves (Isla Fisher) and Jack Wilder (Dave Franco), the Four Horsemen make a dream team of street magicians. Since they take fabricated their stunts public, allowing the world to "witness" the robberies, authorities are in hot pursuit of the four, now wanted criminals. Detective Rhodes (Mark Ruffalo) is accompanied in his search for the illusive magicians by Thaddeus Bradley (Morgan Freeman) and French detective Alma Dray (Melanie Laurent). Will the 4 Horsemen be able to pull of their final act without being caught, or will it be defunction for the criminal performers?
The plot is so original and total of fresh ideas and witty one-act. I honey how fast paced this motion picture is, I swear there isn't a tedious moment from beginning to finish. The plot itself has so many twists and turns it should be a pretzel, only it keeps the audience guessing the whole time and hits you with major shock cistron. The acting in this film is incredible. It features a group of incredible actors - Morgan Freeman, Jesse Eisenberg, Dave Franco, Woody Harrelson and many others. I dearest how each character has a unique quirk and personality that you can really meet, merely they all piece of work together so well. The cinematography and special effects in this flick are phenomenal. It is bursting with rich colors and textures, drawing you lot into the magic and making the illusions appear and so existent. The soundtrack is likewise astonishing. It is suits each scene very well, while keeping a consistent theme and feel throughout the motion-picture show. "Now You See Me" is definitely non one to miss.
It's difficult for me to pick a favorite character because I dear all of the Horsemen, just when information technology comes down to it I have to say I similar the characters Daniel Atlas and Jack Wilder. Daniel, played by Jesse Eisenberg, oft tries to affirm himself equally the head of the Iv Horsemen. He is decision-making, very specific and difficult to deal with, only he is besides the funniest character which is attributed to all of his demanding qualities. I love every film Jesse Eisenberg is in and I recall he is perfect for the role of Daniel Atlas. I also like Jack Wilder, played by Dave Franco, because he is the craftiest of the magicians. He isn't the "card trick" or "read your mind" type, he'southward only a good old fashioned pick-pocket for whom no door is ever locked.. He is sort of the "muscle" to the functioning considering he is able to assist the horsemen get out of tight situations and he is also very funny.
My favorite scene is when the 4 Horsemen have to escape from the FBI later on their second robbery. Jack Wilder has to stay backside to burn hole-and-corner files. When he has an unexpected run-in with Detective Rhodes, an action filled fight sequence and high speed chase follow. This scene is filled with suspense, action and incredible stunts and information technology shows that the Horsemen are ever ii steps ahead.
I recommend this movie for ages 12+ because of violence and mild mature language. Overall I give "Now You See Me" five out of 5 stars.
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Don't see them. They are an illusion.
I was at the edge of my seat during the beginning thirty minutes, which is very rare for a movie this early. Then Magic happened.
Then Magic happened.
Information technology happened again.
And again.
And again.
And over again.
And Did you see once again in the last line?
Nope, right! That'southward what they will evidence yous. Goose egg, that yous can empathize what information technology will merely do is amaze you.
Ibwill not talk ahout making sense in this magical picture show. Information technology's way poorer than that.
For the to the lowest degree, give ne a few days to digest what I watched and volition get back to y'all with a vicious review. Thank you!
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Only expert if y'all see it every bit a fantasy film
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"Now You See Me" is a French/American co-product from 3 years agone and probably so far the most known work past French manager Louis Leterrier. He sure got a whole bunch of big names lined upward for this project, including Oscar winners and Oscar nominees. The outcome is not a failure, but still disappointing. Films nearly magic are not too frequent these days, even if there is Brody'southward "Houdini" and Christopher Nolan's "The Prestige" of course. And you lot could phone call this film here a poor homo's "The Prestige". Not only does the cast have Micael Caine in mutual, but information technology likewise tries to exist controversial and mind-blowing from commencement to finish, but nigh never succeeds. I main reason for this may be Jesse Eisenberg, who is probably the lead thespian or at least the one who fits the clarification the most. In 90% of his films he plays a super-smart, smug immature developed and his shtick has really gotten repetitive by at present. I wish he would take other paths once more like in "Zombieland" for instance. By the manner, it's a "Zombieland" reunion with Harrelson, who is fun every bit usual in here. Unfortunately the other ii members of the gang are very forgettable as well. Isla Fisher only stands out because she is the only woman from the quartet and Dave Franco, blood brother to James, proves that he is not even shut to his famous sibling in terms of talent. Then again, the fashion the character is written was pretty disastrous too. He is totally irrelevant for pretty much the unabridged moving picture and when we are supposed to be shocked he is alive, I honestly couldn't care less.
Finally, the story: At that place are a couple proficient scenes, but the longer the film goes, the more it loses itself in the makers' clumsy attempts to brand this as surprising, heed-blowing and fascinating as possible. It really is none of all this. It is also manner too long for its own good and they certainly could have cut out 20 minutes possibly. These 20 minutes should come up from the second half though every bit the film was decent until the moment the quartet took the coin from Caine'south character's bank account. After that, it turns into a forgettable activity thriller, before it badly tries so difficult to get back to the magic storyline and brand this the center of the flick again. I find it very irritating to see that this motion picture is guaranteed to accept not only one, but probably ii sequels as there is inappreciably anything in here that makes me curious about a continuation of the story. And what tin can they practise? Mayhap bring in a new cop that goes later on the illusionists? I don't know. I can merely say that I don't take much interest to meet information technology and information technology would exist most painful to see Eisenberg('southward grapheme) for another two hours as I am certain he will bring absolutely nothing new to the character. I did not really guess the final plot twist every bit I thought Laurent'south graphic symbol may be the 4th Horseman, simply patently they had to get out the nigh spectacular way possible. A lot of the picture can be described equally style over substance. If you desire to watch information technology nonetheless, you can turn it off afterward the start hour. Information technology gets bad really quickly later on that.
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What's with all the bad reviews???
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Excellent movie loved information technology ok part 2 is all over the identify particularly with the bad blackness guy in part ane suddenly becoming the skilful guy in office 2 kinda sucked.
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Las Vegas Turnabout
"Now You See Me" (2013) is a tremendously fun motion-picture show starring Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, Morgan Freeman, and Michael Caine.
Four magicians (Eisenberg, Harrelson, Fisher, and Franco) are invited to an address. Inside, they run across a few tricks. A year later, these 4 have become The 4 Horsemen and are doing a show in Las Vegas. They end the first operation that nosotros come across with a banking concern robbery that doesn't look like an illusion.
The FBI gets right on it and sends in an agent, Dylan Rhodes (Ruffalo) and Interpol sends one also, Melanie Laurent (Alma Dray). Rhodes is big-headed and thinks figuring out how these 4 did information technology is going to exist like shooting fish in a barrel, but it isn't, even with the help of a large-time illusionist exposer (Freeman). Of course, that robbery isn't going to be their final as the agents go more and more than frustrated.
Be set up for the twists and turns, distractions, and sleight of hand. Zippo is as it seems.
Highly entertaining film, with good performances from the young cast, working alongside two major pros, Caine and Freeman. I know the movie is preposterous but so are a lot of plots. When a film is well done, I say just relax and proceed with it. I'm always amazed at how people review a film like this every bit if it'due south Citizen Kane. My communication: If y'all desire reality, don't picket movies.
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Pretty Awful
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Having been interested past the previews and ratings on IMDb, I went into this motion picture expecting some fun. But what started out as an interesting movie fizzled out in no time. In near twenty minutes, the interest was all POOF -- GONE !
To start with, a lot of characters in the moving-picture show are very shallow. You hardly get whatever background info near them and what drives them to do what they do.
The makers attempt to add together romance, action, suspense, drama and all of it fails. It went to the point where you only wait for the movie to terminate.
Lots of good actors and all of them have been made to play cartoonish roles in a movie that takes itself quite seriously. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone. The street tricks on Tv set are style more fun and enjoyable. At to the lowest degree there you know the magician/illusionist/trickster is doing information technology to entertain or brand a proper name for himself and a quick buck dissimilar this moving-picture show which tries to show them off with personalities like superheroes.
Tip: Sit back at home, sip on a summertime beverage and scout/do something else other than going to the cinemas for this.
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Solid acting, fun, and fast-paced...slap-up job!
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Eisenberg, equally I'one thousand sure many will discover, is beginning to develop his ain typical character: the quick-witted, arrogant-withal-jittery, immature smart guy. But instead of running facebook, this time he's 1 of the acme magicians in the world. And he's perfectly bandage for it.
The movie follows 4 magicians or illusionists in various stages of their careers, as they all receive mysterious invites to join up. Afterwards meeting, the "Iv Horsemen" become all Robin Hood, robbing banks and stealing from CEOs as part of their shows, and giving the coin away to the audience. The Incredible Hulk…I hateful, Mark Ruffalo, plays the FBI agent trying to lock them all up, while Morgan Freeman plays the narrator explaining everything to you…I hateful, the ex-magician trying to debunk the magic…really, that'due south just a clever way to get Freeman to narrate stuff
Pros: - Anybody puts on a solid performance. No weak points acting-wise, groovy job on casting. - It's fast-paced, the action never hits any boring parts. And even the small romance scenes don't drag on long plenty to have away from anything. You're pretty locked-in from start to finish. - Particularly great scenes between Eisenberg, Ruffalo, and Harrelson in the first one-half of the movie. - Swell catastrophe, if yous've been paying attending.
Cons: - You wish in that location was more than dialog between Eisenberg and Harrelson. - The 2nd half of the movie might motion a bit too fast…again, pay attention. - Somebody idea this was a Marvel movie for like 5 seconds, and had The Hulk fighting Gambit…wait…is that a bad matter?...
Overall, this pic is a solid flick with some great actors that you shouldn't sleep on. It clocks in at just under ii hours, but it won't experience that long at all.
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Skip it if you have a brain
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I concur with the other negative reviews: good actors performing an incoherent script. The motion-picture show is more than of a collection of clichés than a story. One thing I oasis't seen mentioned is how left-wing it is. We are supposed to cheer when Michael Caine'due south character gets screwed. The only reason I can encounter is because he is rich. Jesse Eisenberg on the other hand plays a smug guy yous would similar to smack upside the head. Notwithstanding, his heart is pure and so information technology turns out skillful for him. Much of the story and the tricks are based upon screwing the "1 pct." If you aren't a Wall Street occupier or are greater than 12 years old I recommend skipping it. Come to call back of it, information technology'southward too vehement for viewers 12 or less.
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Come In Close. Considering the More You Think You See, the Easier It'll Be To Disappoint You...
"Come up in close. Considering the more than you call back you see, the easier it'll be to fool you lot..." Non simply practice the distributors of At present Y'all See Me use this piece of gripping dialogue as the tagline for the moving-picture show, but exhibitors will as well utilise information technology to trick international audiences into delving into their pockets and wasting their time with this enormously disappointing and unexciting caper film. Now You See Me follows the story of 4 magicians, known equally The Four Horsemen, every bit they captivate the world with 'magical', most inexplicable banking company heists before rewarding their audiences and supporters with the money they accept. The simply trickery happening hither is being hypnotised by the highly intriguing trailer, only to discover you yourself take been robbed as yous sit in disbelief that you paid to see a film that is about every bit unique and intricate equally a card game of snap!
Despite the sensational ensemble of Jesse Eisenberg, Marker Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Mélanie Laurent, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman, they fail to assemble appropriately. They all evangelize satisfactory performances but are not given the opportunity to flourish as we may have seen them do and then in past roles. This is primarily due to the fact that manager Louis Leterrier, along with the writers, attempt to pull likewise many rabbits out of the chapeau at in one case and and so rather than savor one bunny at a time, we instead see a ton of terrific actors be undervalued and restricted in showcasing their talents. Most oddly, The Iv Horsemen (Eisenberg, Fischer, Harrelson and Franco) are even given surprisingly picayune screen time later their 30 minute introduction every bit the film begins.
In all fairness, Now You lot See Me does remain consistent. Consistently unintriguing that is. The film'southward aforementioned tagline, along with unsubtle hints scattered dubiously throughout regarding the illusionary concept of misdirection, completely ruin any surprise and twist that the 'suspense' film has to offering. By doing this the picture leaves petty to be unveiled during the climax, one would think, though time is really wasted explaining all of the plot points you already guessed, while conjuring up new components to the story that remain unresolved and/or illogically explained to the extent that even in a film about magic/illusions, you neglect to believe whatsoever of the tricks being performed. The illusion of cinema fails every bit much equally the illusion of magic fails to prevail in Now You lot Run across Me.
Now You See Me is comparable to the student who believes they are the cool fresher on campus, the funniest, with a unique personality, and a mistaken sense of self-intelligence that causes them to continue to contribute to seminars despite the fact they never answer anything correctly. No, in fact, At present You Run across Me needs to be told by its peers (let'southward say that's united states of america) that information technology is not nearly equally intellectually gifted, cool, witty or exceptional every bit it pretends to be. Yous most certainly will not miss out on annihilation if you chose not to befriend this wearisome, generic and embarrassingly misleading film, that is posing as an intricate and sophisticated figure on the surface.
When the kickoff thought on my heed later on exiting my cinema seat later Now You lot See Me was "I actually wish the film had been sold out and so I could have returned home to spotter The Prestige (2006) or come across Man of Steel (2013) over again", it pretty much encapsulates my attitude towards the disappointing Leterrier pic. While in that location is nothing necessarily evident to hate in At present You See Me, at that place is non a single component to commend as dandy either. Now You Run across Me is truly a forgettable 115 minute time thief, and though I accept Seen it Now, I would have preferred instead to have missed it and been kept under the illusion that it was in fact an intricate tale, rather than a misdirected fail.
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