Now You See Me (Louis Leterrier, 2013)

Magicians in movies will always prove popular, as audiences love to be bamboozled and a film will be able to do that to double the effect with cuts, reverses and FX. This, however, reduces the efficacy of the illusions on show as we are aware that everything can be cheated, without any real ingenuity. There are decent movies centered around magicians and their craft, but Now You See Me is not one of them. Four illusionists robbing banks is an amusing idea, and it diverts for a while, but providing explanations for some of the tricks while pulling off completely unfeasible ones which would only work with a filmic toolkit at the same time is just irritating. The denouement is also very worn out. Now you'll see it.

4/10