"Now You See Me," is a razzle-dazzle fantasy about a team of bank-robbing illusionists that's light on seriousness and heavy on style. Turning Freeman into the movie's de facto on-camera narrator is "Now You See Me"'s neatest trick, especially since much of the movie's third act revolves around. Now You See Me does that, in some ways, but neglects to do so when it's most crucial -- it unmasks some of the trickery, but not all of it -- demanding viewers to continue to suspend their disbelief and rely on belated explanations rather than find out on their own.
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The main characters are played by Jesse. 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. Now You See Me is a superficially diverting but substance-free concoction, a would-be thriller as evanescent as a magic trick and one that develops no suspense or rooting But like most magic acts, the effect is over in a moment and leaves no impact. Now you see this movie, then it's gone.
Trailer Now You See Me
It is nothing more—or less���than the art of misdirection. Of making us believe we've seen something when we haven't. Of keeping us from seeing something that we should have noticed.
It is, in the words of one of Now You See It's magicians, "targeted deception." Now You See Me is the story of four magicians — aka The Four Horsemen — who use sleight of hand to pull off very complicated heists. The team comes together after a mysterious man in a hoodie prompts them to pull off the biggest magic trick of all: stealing from an international bank in Paris while. Now that would have been a neat trick. Stephanie Merry Stephanie Merry oversees books coverage for the Style section.