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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Now You See Me (2013)

This movie is very enjoyable fluff.  It is a movie where the magic is not so much about illusion as it is about settling an old score.  A group of four magicians with moderate level skills who are mostly working on the street rather than in a theatre are recruited for a master plan that even they are not in on.  The hook for them is membership in an exclusive club for master magicians.  That, and the appeal to their egos (which they all seem to have in excessiv amounts) is enough to get them to go along with the charade.

Their first big trick is a bank robbery in Paris--an audience member is chosen, seemingly at random, and his back is then robbed, seemingly in real time--the audience watches him enter the vault, see the pils of money in front of him, and then it appears that the money is vaccuumed up.  Minutes later, Euros are falling from the ceiling of the theater.  Lots of them.  Hours later it is discovered that the bacnk in question has indeed been robbed.  How did they accomplish it?  They go on to have two more appearances that come off specatacularly successfully, and the reason behind the shows is revealed to the magicians, as well as to us.  It is slick, superficial, and very fun.

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