Now You See Me

                               

A few days ago I watch a really good movie called Now You See Me. This movie was in theaters a few months ago, but just recently came out on DVD and Pay per View.  At first I didn’t think that I would like it but after I watched it, it is probably one of my favorite movies.

Now You See Me is about four magicians that perform magic as a hobby in different parts of the country. One magician specializes in card tricks, one is a mentalist, one is a stunt magician, and the last is a new magician that isn’t very good. All the magicians get a special invitation, leading them to New York City, where they will team up to perform one magic show together. All together the magicians are called the Four Horsemen. These Magic tricks however are not like any magic trick anybody has ever seen before because for their first big trick the Four Horsemen rob a bank. The police get involved and try to take the four horsemen down, but since they are magicians they have no way to prove how they did it. Dylan Rhodes, a detective, gets put onto the case with a French woman to help him. At first Rhodes doesn’t want the women helping him, but threw out the movie gets comfortable with her. Rhodes calls on Thaddeus Bradley, who is a former magician but now works to uncover how popular magicians do their tricks and expose them for what they really are.

This movie was so good because of all the plot twists that happen throughout the movie. You continually think that there has to be someone working with the Four Horsemen, like a Fifth Horsemen ;) but the movie continually makes you think the fifth horsemen in someone else. I remember watching the movie and trying to guess who the fifth horsemen could have been, but every time being wrong. When you watch the movie, if you watch the movie, remember the most important quote from the movie “the closer you look, the less you see”. The magicians show this a lot in this movie because you see the movie from the FBI’s point of view so once you figure out how the Four Horsemen do the trick, and then you figure out how they did it.

I personally think that this movie is also kind of like Robin Hood because the magicians stole millions of dollars from banks, to companies, to individuals, but never kept any of the money! They always gave it to their audience, or framed someone else with the money. Overall however this movie was fantastic and I recommend watching it! However I feel like once you have seen it once, you already know what is going to happen so a lot of the suspense is gone. But others in my family said that they would definitely watch Now You See Me again because of just how good it was! Plus Dave Franco is in it, and he make the movie ten times better! ;)
Movie Trailer