![]() Just in case you were in awe of card tricks, here’s Dave Franco, aka Jack Wilder, showing off his card skills. Rotten Tomatoes: Tomatometer: 34% / Audience score: 61% The pace: In comparison to how fast the characters speak on the movie, we expected the events to rush a bit more.Ĭoincidences: Yes, we liked the plot, but c’mon, too many coincidences happening. Vault card trick scene: Since we promised no spoilers, you’ll just have to watch this one yourself. To Woody Harrelson in particular, we applaud. The cast: They are just as endearing as they were in the first movie. 287 Likes, TikTok video from thefilmcentre (): Now you see me 2 (2016) Disappearing Card Trick Scene (3/3) nowyouseeme fyp movie film. However, things don’t go according to plan and they end up being under the mercy of newcomer, Radcliffe, who is a complete science brainiac.Ĭritics and audiences were divided when it came to this movie though, as audiences loved it, but professional movie-watchers… not so much. They theatrically humiliate anyone who steals, lies or cheats the masses. And that's the true definition of magic-movie or otherwise.The team of illusionists gets back together to continue their crusade of fairness and justice. I was surprised and impressed by the final result. So I suppose it's a credit to the early character work that, by the end, I wanted more than just the clever "how they did it" explanations. ![]() But by the end we understand that even this seemingly devaluating approach is foregrounded by design. The individual skill sets of The Four Horsemen (mentalism, slight-of-hand, theatrical illusions, street magic) and their relationship to one another is overshadowed by a police pursuit midway through the film. Being shown "how" something happened certainly satisfies our immediate curiosity, but this puzzle-piecing is also done at the determent of developing our central characters. Of course, like all good magic, much of it is misdirection. The pacing and quick character introductions do an effective job of drawing us in as the film unfolds. Once again, as quickly as the process of their deception is revealed, the story is a few steps ahead in setting up the third and final climactic trick. And soon we're on to the next show, which is much less mystical, but rife with consequence. And so they're set free, while Thaddeus proceeds to unravel their elaborate crime (albeit without the required proof). They welcome the publicity that accompanies their subsequent arrest, with Eisenberg's character proclaiming that if the process goes any further, the FBI will essentially be forced to "believe in magic at an institutional level". Thaddeus is recruited by mystified FBI Agent Dylan Rhodes (Mark Ruffalo) when The Four Horsemen (Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Ilsa Fisher, and Dave Franco) shower an audience with three million Euros stolen from a French bank during one of their shows. Your role, David, was therefore probably much like Thaddeus Bradley (Morgan Freeman) in the film: a former magician who makes a living selling trade secrets. Just ask David Copperfield, the man whose magic (according to the closing credits) "inspired" the film. The script takes as much pride in revealing secrets as it does in trying to trick the audience, and that's exactly what makes spectacle work on the big screen- and the Vegas stage. Now You See Me is definitely a fun movie. This impressive feat that you helped to orchestrate was a perfect hook, even if, afterwards, all the other illusions suffer predictably from…well, the standard movie magic.īut who cares. Sure enough, it was the card I had committed to memory (along, I suppose, with 90% of the audience). ![]() The audience is told to pick a card from a shuffling deck, and, moments later, a card lights up a skyscraper in the background. But that's exactly what we get in the very first scene of Now You See Me: a point-of-view illusion. When people marvel at movie magic, it's not usually card tricks caught on film.
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