Now You See Me 2013 by AverageMansReviews

 Now You See Me 2013 by AverageMansReviews

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The Four Horsemen get assembled: briefly; this unknown individual sends out these four cards to these four gifted individuals from the world of magic, illusion, street magic, escapist and mentalist and hypnotist; such as J. Daniel Atlas [Jesse Eisenberg:] he is very difficult about everything, he performs illusions and street magic, he is to have an assistant which swiftly brings me on to Henley Reeves [Isla Fisher:] they went their separate ways and yes they clearly have a history, she performs stage magic and she is an escapist; but alongside the other two numbers they have three performances to perform for this unknown individual.

Generally speaking: the framework and pacing of this 124 minutes film is well... very awkward as things begin with such gusto with real purpose and enthusiasm, with a year time jump [which I will discuss this later,] where somewhere around more less the three-quarter stage of this film things really do begin to slow down and struggle for a while in which time I fell asleep, but woke up again to catch the final section; on reflection this film slows down that much that I can't believe it is only 124 minutes long, because man it really drags its feet.

Comedy, action and art; Woody Harrelson as Merritt McKinney: he is a hypnotist/mentalist and claims to be a psychic, he pulls out this hypnotist trick wife whilst including the husband the dust down for some money to keep one of his secrets a secret, which he does pay up so he returns wife without any memory of what they had just discussed McKinney is very much the comedic component of the group. The art is very much fitting in with the whole magic mystical presentation of this film; it is meant to be big, bold and sometimes beautiful or/and sometimes horrific to distract or/and mesmerise its audiences which it does that fantastic ease be it using playing cards, fish tank with piranhas or using this teleporting machine or even how this Intel is provided has been given a spectacular entrance into the film.

Character developments and performances; the character developments are very foundational: as they are of the concept of mostly everyone getting to know everyone that kind of thing regardless of history or/and reputation and whilst I am on the subject I did find the one time jump to be incredibly lazy, because this group have obviously moved on as it relates to their character/chemistry building, but we haven't been there to experience it, so straight away the characters and the viewers are a part in their stages of getting to know one another, but as they are; they are good just have this audience connection problem with these character developments that fulfil their purpose for the first journey out and moving on to the performances likewise broadly speaking they are good; but when the tempo drops of this film; they have been left hanging high and dry, they are still able to manufacture chemistry but it does come across as melodic, so I am hoping they don't repeat this in this sequel.

This film receives: 4/10, this film is mixed; like I have already made reference in one way or another yes this film does begin really lively as there is lots happening, but somewhere around the three-quarter stage or more or less, everything began to really slow down so I missed a good section of this film, but I did wake up to watch the closing stages, you see; if you have been around content creating for as long as I have you will have spells of perhaps once every three years or so, where you will just have a bad patch of content in my case reviewing and that is where we are at the moment. The person I watch some others contend agree with me where they said I am paraphrasing here; it began really enthusiastically and from out of nowhere it just hit the wall and took ages to compose itself. It does have some awards accredited to its name such as 1 Winner People's Choice Awards, USA 2014 People's Choice Award Favorite Thriller Movie and 3 Nominees which includes but not limited to Empire Awards, UK 2014 Empire Award Best Thriller