Now You See Me Reviews
Concrete Playground
Ocean's Eleven for Gen-Y; it's a 'pop heist movie' that's more concerned with looking cool than being it.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Bloomberg News
It's a cheat even before taking a last-minute excursion into a more fantastical genre.
Daily Star
When the smoke finally clears you won't hear a single gasp. The groans could be deafening though.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Slant Magazine
There's nothing behind all this sturm und drang but a lineup of insubstantial ciphers, all false fronts and empty words in a pretend world not quite conducive to emotional investment.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Little White Lies
A film which proves the theory that if magicians were also bankrobbers, they'd still be pretty stupid.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Top CriticWhen functioning like a magic trick, this breathlessly entertaining picture delights in its showmanship, but the more entertaining the trickery, the tougher the explanation, and when the truth is revealed the answer can't help but fail to satisfy.
Flicks.co.nz
Hollywood bombast masquerading as something trickier.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Exudes self-importance and can't help but make promises it can't deliver on.
Paste Magazine
Leterrier's sixth feature film relies so heavily on the flashiness of a great show that the characters become props whose motives and storylines disappear amidst all the smoke and mirrors of the movie.
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| Original Score: 5.8/10
The Ooh Tray
It has all the depth of a Vegas magic act, though take heart, it's one fifth of the price.
Scotsman
This flashy, flat, dispiritingly personality-free drama is more likely to make audiences disappear.
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| Original Score: 2/5
ABC Radio Brisbane
The opening credits roll, the stage is set and then SHAZAM... all sense of logic magically disappears.
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| Original Score: C
If you're OK with the film playing you for a sap, you'll laugh and clap and wonder how that bird got into that hat. But if you think there's a difference between being tricked and being cheated, you may feel swindled.
Daily Telegraph
Leterrier handles his camera like a Swingball set. Sleight-of-hand has seldom felt slighter than this.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Twitch
The story moves jauntily toward its destination; the destination, unfortunately, is a disappointing wreck.
Las Vegas Informer
A messy magic act dominated by Eisenberg who once again shows off his amazing skill at memorizing long monologues
Tri-City Herald
Not much magic here. Sometimes a great twist ending can make up a lot of lost plot ground, but even the end twist of Now You See Me is mundane.
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| Original Score: 3/5
EntertainmentTell
A great cast and an impressive scale, but it ultimately falls apart almost completely
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
