Abra cadabra…I have to tell you, since this movie is about magic and there are twists and turns and surprises and it’s called “Now You
See Me” I almost left the post blank. Little play on the title, maybe some surrealism, but how fun would that be? Aside from to me anyway.
We absolutely loved this movie! We actually watched it before Redemption, I so wish we had watched in the other direction! But I digress.
As I said, we loved this movie. It has a great cast, with some serious heavy hitters. Mark Ruffalo plays the FBI agent tracking down “The Four Horsemen”, four magicians with different talents: Woody Harrelson plays a mentalist, someone who reads people and places suggestions in their subconscious made a great con artist. Jesse Eisenberg plays a straight up magician, card tricks, slight of hand. Isla Fisher played an illusionist, doing Harry Houdini type of escapes and Dave Franco rounded out the Four Horsemen, more of a street magician/hustler, not great, but with potential, he’s kind of the baby of the group.
Morgan Freeman plays a retired magician who has a show that exposes magicians, tells you how they did what they did. Michael Caine is the bankroll for the Four Horsemen, private planes, cart blanche.
Not a spoiler alert (from the previews), they are going to rob a bank, virtually and literally, from a Las Vegas theater, ooooh. As I said, Mark Ruffalo is the FBI agent convinced they did it and will stop at nothing to get them! Morgan Freeman keeps trying to figure out how they did it and the Four Horsemen are doing what they do best and having a good time.
Over the course of the movie, you watch them grow and hone their skills and work together, they weren’t totally on the same page when they got together initially, but someone knew what they were capable of and brought them together. You keep wondering who the guy in the blue sweatshirt is.
I really can’t give you much more than that because there are too many twists, turns and surprises, it really would be a spoiler alert. Bottom line, we recommend this movie!
Peaches Prattlings 