Now You See Me!!!!

Now You See Me.

A cross between the first Oceans Eleven film and The Prestige this latest blockbuster film brings all the excitement of a heist movie with the amazement of a Magic show. As a super group of various entertainers team up, J Daniel Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg) a close-up magician, Merritt McKinney (Woody Harrelson) a mind reader, Henley Reeves (Isla Fisher) an escapologist and Jack Wilder (Dave Franco) a pickpocket with aspirations, nicknamed The Four Horseman they put their big magic show into action. Pulling off a bank robbery and sending a member of the audience supposedly through time and space the group give back all the money to the audience. 

As a FBI agent Dylan Rhodes (Mark Ruffalo) and Interpol agent Alma Dray (Melanie Laurent) are sent on the case to catch the magic group the action soon kicks into the film and it comes thick and fast. With fights including throwing dangerous cards to car chases through inner New York the group will do anything to allude the agents. 

The group is of course financed by insurance magnate Arthur Tressler (Michael Caine), they have his full support and endless help in perfecting and pulling off their massive illusions. With sceptics in the crowd one of them is professional trick-ruiner Thaddeus Bradley (Morgan Freeman) who films and watches the group and is soon enough brought in to help the FBI agents. 

As the group becomes more elusive they pull off their final big trick and soon enough we find out who is really behind the group and will they ever be caught by the FBI agents or will they still run free?.

The film itself is a great heist style movie with the added ooh's and aah's spectacle as you watch all the tricks being performed on screen. Action scenes are thrown in to really excite you and keep you hooked with the added twists and turns added into the film and of course the "big reveal" at the end it'll have you saying "so that's how it was done" almost like the film was one big magic trick.

Character wise they all work really well together and really do look natural on stage and it shows the actors have had training and really worked hard to perfect their individual characters craft. The camera shots are great from flying high cameras to close up shots of hands and cards the diversity of camera work is good. So if you like your heist and chase movies with abit of magic throw in and really enjoyed Oceans eleven and The Prestige then you will love this film, fast, fun, entertaining and all round magical.

I'll leave you with this line from the film: "Come in close, closer, because the more you think you see the easier it'll be to fool you"

7/10.