Review of Now You See Me (2013) by Brendan C — 13 Oct 2017

Now You See Me is a Mystery / Crime film, it's about four magicians who are brought together to form a group called the four horseman. They use the shows as ways to take money from the rich and give to the poor, this leads to the police playing a cat and mouse game with them trying to catch and arrest them for the crimes they are committing bringing in Morgan Freeman - who's character tries to show how famous magicians do their tricks - to help them out.

All of the magic done in this film can actually be done in real life, apparently they had real magicians on set to help them perform the tricks. Whilst we are on the topic of the magic pretty much all of the tricks really blew me away and most of the best bits of the film came from when the four horsemen where on the stage delivering their tricks.

This is most prominent in the second film in which not much of the film takes place on stage but whilst they are on stage it feels like something really special. However, this does not take away from the rest of the film, especially the second one which I personally believe to be the better of the two.

The first film has an all star cast with the four horseman being played by: Jesse Eisenberg, Dave Franco, Woody Harrelson and Isla Fisher. I feel like these guys all had good chemistry which slowly built over the course of the film with the beginning having them be quite arrogant, thinking they are the best magician to the end of the film when they become a really close group.

The film also stars Morgan Freeman as I have already said, Micheal Caine and Mark Ruffalo. The ending of this film comes out of nowhere and it really shocked me however, the second time I watched this it kind of seemed out of place and it wasn't really suggested at all throughout the movie so it kind of seemed like a twist for no reason.