Unwatchable after the first time

Rating: 5/10 (1 September 2013)

I really wanted to see this movie because i have heard that it was good, but again, as many of Hollywood movies, it left me disappointed. At the start of the movie you still have some hope because the characters are introduced, but they are not given much personality(except maybe Mark Ruffalo and in some dose Jesse Eisenberg). I liked the idea of a magicians movie, but somewhere in the middle of the movie(when the big act is being performed) i could not restrain myself from laughing at how ridiculous it looked because i felt like i was accidentally watching an SF film, due to all the light and high-tech used in magic tricks. The movie is ambitious and its fun watching the magicians while they are outsmarting the detective during the movie, but when they got to a point when it was time to include some car racing on the bridge it was so confusing to watch because the camera was shaking and showing the faces of the cast instead of the actual car racing. The worst thing in the movie was definitely the forced chemistry the detective and the french woman had and it was painful to watch how they were somehow falling for each other. The end is somewhat unexpected and unrealistic but i guess the whole story then made sense.