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Critics Consensus: Now You See Me's thinly sketched characters and scattered plot rely on sleight of hand from the director to distract audiences.
Critic Consensus: Now You See Me's thinly sketched characters and scattered plot rely on sleight of hand from the director to distract audiences.
All Critics (161) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (81) | Rotten (80) | DVD (1)
Overcooked, overcomplicated and underinteresting, this heist caper turns into a mess.
Bustling, glittery, uninvolving.
Complicated nonsense about four professional magicians caught up in an elaborate revenge plot.
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.
Leterrier also tries to pack an extraordinary amount of story and twists into a fairly ordinary running time, resulting in editing so choppy that sometimes even the easy parts are hard to follow.
This would-be "Ocean's Eleven" of the magic world remains watchable throughout, even as it plods along without ever quite fulfilling its potential.
At a time when most mentally agile films are very talky and most action films have sing-along plots, Now You See Me is a surprisingly lively set of twists, turns, revelations and explosions.
Now You See Me is an entertaining trick for the eyes.
Now You See Me is a rarity: a summer movie that manages to entertain without killing off a single of its viewers' brain cells.
A film that relies on one of the worst, if not the worst twist in cinema history, and literally erases everything that it builds up to.
Now You See Me is fun but flawed summer fluff. There are certainly moments of greatness here, but the execution falters too many times.
It gives you a little taste of both kinds of tricks. If you are looking for fun that involves more of the mind and a little less of the explosive kind, [Now You See Me] is the film for you.
Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fischer, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, and Mark Ruffalo. So, this is the best movie ever right? Sadly, it is one of the most mediocre, guilty-pleasure-esque type of films that has been made in a very, very long time. After the "four horsemen" are recruited by a mystery man to perform global magic shows to blow people's minds, all hell breaks loose once they begin to use their magic illegally, robbing people of their money or other goods. This film tries way too hard to be smarter than you and it ends up becoming a blast to watch, for how dumb it becomes. There is a line spoken in the film that explains to the audience how magic is just an illusion and the real trick is always happening away from where they are making you look. Clearly that sets up a big twist in the third act of the film, but the payoff is almost too dumb to take seriously. This film tries to build the suspense of the bigger picture as it progresses, but it ends up getting confused with itself, making for a laughable film overall. There are a few awesome sequences throughout this film, but in the end, "Now You See Me" is just another Hollywood film trying far too hard to impress it's audiences. Upon second and third viewings, I have come to appreciate the entertainment level of this film, but for all of the wrong reasons. This film is a blast to watch if you are in the mood to nit-pick storylines that believe themselves to be clever. "Now You See Me" is well shot, written well enough to enjoy watching these characters interact, and directed as well as can be expected from the director of films like the "Step Up" franchise. As far as positives go, there are only a few, but they really do elevate this material being presented. The performers here are all committed to their roles, making the script much more believable than it really is, and the magic shows they put on are a delight to behold. The one setback about their shows is that it is clearly not any kind of magic that could have been accomplished if it was not in a film, which kind of defeats the purpose of creating an illusion for audience members. Overall, "Now You See Me" is a fine guilty pleasure of a film that I can recommend to those who do not want to think to hard while watching a film, or those who simply want a big budget hollywood film to gawk at.
Super Reviewer
Great idea and potential, but pretends to be much smarter than it actually is. The magic effects feel so fake they have little "Whoa" effect on the audience. Entertaining but with plenty of wasted opportunities.
Bored the crap of me, quite honestly. I tried to watch it once previously, switched it off. Decided to have another go. Wish I hadn't bothered. Film looks great and I liked Isla, though her role isn't that big, but it just didn't hold my attention.
A stupid caper movie that believes to be so much smarter than it really is when in fact it is a cheap Hollywood sleight of hand concealing a huge pile of implausibilities and the nonsensical nature of its twists/tricks - and the silly dialogue and idiotic ending only make it worse.
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