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Rating: 5/10 (3 May 2017)

I was initially draged to watch this movie because my wife wanted to watch it, and I can't really claim to have had much of an interest in a movie revolving around magicians and magical parlor tricks. But still, it might actually turn out to be an alright movie, given the rather impressive list of cast ensemble.
However, "Now You See Me" turned out to be nothing more than a mediocre storyline wrapped up in a display of impressive effects and topped off with some big names on the cast list. It was, for a lack of better words, not an overwhelmingly entertaining movie.
The storyline was adequate, but it just lacked that one magical ingredient to make it truly outstanding or at least leave the audience with a resonating memorable movie. But no, director Louis Leterrier didn't manage to do that.
What did work in favor of the movie was the fact that it was a rather unpredictable storyline, and the audience was left in the dark, so to speak, and were guessing about what was going on most of the time. And that kind of uncertainty and unpredictability did count for something.
And some of the magic tricks performed were quite interesting and spectacular, for sure. But it just didn't really work out all that great to form a movie around a mould of magic tricks.
Then there was the impressive cast list, of course. And I must admit that I had hopes for the movie given the fact that Mark Ruffalo, Morgan Freeman, Woody Harrelson and Michael Caine was on the cast list. And while the individual actors and actresses did perform quite well, they just weren't able to step out of the shadow cast by the concept of the movie.
"Now You See Me" turned out to be a mediocre movie experience for me, and I wasn't particularly impressed. Nor can I claim to be in any hurry to watch the sequel.