{4\/5} “The closer you look the less you see.”<\/p>\n
A magician, an escape artist, a mentalist, and a pickpocket from across the country are all invited to New York at a certain date and time — they all show up. It turns out that some of them already know each other. A year later the four of them are performing together as the Four Horsemen in Las Vegas. They say for their final trick they’re going to rob a bank — soon after, money falls from the ceiling and the crowd goes wild.<\/p>\n
Now You See Me<\/strong> was released earlier this year.<\/p>\n I liked some parts of this movie but other parts didn’t quite do it for me.<\/p>\n Unlike other heist movies (Ocean’s Eleven<\/strong>, The Italian Job<\/strong>) I wasn’t sure who to cheer for in this one.<\/p>\n It’s also a movie where what was really going on is only explained at the end. But unlike Ocean’s Eleven<\/strong> and Ocean’s Twelve<\/strong>, here I didn’t find the explanation as satisfying.<\/p>\n If you want to see a better movie about magicians, try The Prestige<\/strong> or The Illusionist<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The fun music is by Brian Tyler (Iron Man 3<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network<\/strong><\/a>) plays Daniel and Woody Harrelson (the TV show Cheers<\/strong>) plays Merritt. Isla Fisher (Rango<\/strong>) plays Henley and Dave Franco (Warm Bodies<\/strong><\/a>) plays Jack. These are the Four Horsemen.<\/p>\n Morgan Freeman (The Magic of Belle Isle<\/strong><\/a>) plays Thaddeus — a former magician who now debunks magicians. Michael Caine (The Dark Knight Rises<\/strong><\/a>) plays Arthur — a wealthy man who’s invested in the Four Horsemen. Mark Ruffalo (The Brothers Bloom<\/strong><\/a>) plays Dylan and M\u00e9lanie Laurent (Beginners<\/strong>) plays Alma — they are police officers trying to solve the bank robbery.<\/p>\n The movie was directed by Louis Leterrier (The Incredible Hulk<\/strong>).<\/p>\n A sequel has been announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" {4\/5} “The closer you look the less you see.” A magician, an escape artist, a mentalist, and a pickpocket from across the country are all invited to New York at a certain date and time — they all show up. It turns out that some of them already know each other. A year later the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,6,5],"class_list":["post-3332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-drama","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3332"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3349,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332\/revisions\/3349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}