Movie review: Now You See Me

Directed by: Louis Leterrier

Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Mark Ruffalo, Isla Fisher


Rating: B-

This movie is filled with excitement, slight of hand, and mind tricks. It is engaging and compelling as the viewer follows along a mysterious plot. The main characters are supposedly the bad guys. The good guys are the police who are trying to track them down. Then, of course, there's the antagonist who is played by a third type of character, Morgan Freeman. Freeman's character is seen as something of an expert with inside information on what's happening, what will happen, and what should happen. These categories all shift by the time the movie is over.

There were some interesting reviews of this movie. The most notable critique was that the storyline fell apart in the end. To that complaint I want to point out that a movie isn't sub-par and doesn't fall apart just because you don't like how it ends. Admittedly, the movie has a twist at the end that may seem a bit jarring because it is so unexpected. The twist even breaks the momentum of the storyline, but something has to, right? For a movie to end there needs to be a climax and a resolution. This twist may shatter a magical fantasy by some viewers that there is some greater hand involved in the actions of the Four Horsemen. However, sometimes things that are larger than comprehension begin as small ideas by normal, small people.