Great Film! Epic Magic Tricks!

Rating: 9/10 (10 July 2013)

When seeing this advertised I knew it was going to be a great film! The "rob a bank" line got me interested!
The magic tricks in this film were pretty good! Like when Henley Reeves was trapped in the piranha tank! And got out in the last minute! That was good! Liked the mentalist Merritt McKinney! He was funny as! 4 gifted magicians come together via tarot cards & form a known as The Four Horseman!
They then perform in Las Vegas as "The Four Horsemen" sponsored by Arthur Tressler, an insurance magnate. For the finale of their performances, the Four Horsemen invite a member of the audience to help them in their next trick: robbing a bank. The man is apparently teleported to a bank in Paris, where he activates an air duct which vacuums up the money and showers it onto the crowd in Las Vegas. I like how the group manipulated the man into going to Las Vegas! Very clever!
Liked the performance they done, when they stole 140 Million from Tresslers Bank Account and distributing it to the audience, which comprises people whose insurance claims had been denied or reduced by Tressler's company. That was ace! Well done! Especially when the mentalist, Merritt got some of the audience to be football players & they dived onto the stage on top of FBI agent, Dylan Rhodes when he attempted to catch The Four Horseman!
They bit when Rhodes and Dray locate the group's hideout and confront Wilder! & The chase sequence when Wilder attempts to escape in a stolen car, but during the chase it flips and explodes. I liked how cleverly the group performed the safe heist through use of mirrors! When they realised they were chasing the wrong safe! How well it was explained & how it confused the police/FBI! The group were 2 steps ahead of them! Awesome! And not to mention how Wilder faked his own death! And how the bridge sequence on the bridge was done to confuse them, Merritt being the bus driver with the duplicate car with the dead body from the morgue! When they preformed their final performance & rained fake money onto the crowd & the real money bursting out of Bradley s car & him getting arrested by the FBI! He then reveals to be the 5th Horseman to Bradley who is now stuck in prison! The group are surprised to discover Rhodes is the benefactor who assembled them the previous year, and he initiates them into The Eye.
It then ends with Dray & Rhodes meeting & him explaining that Lionel Shrike, was the magician who drowned years ago. Rhodes says he designed the Horsemen plot to obtain revenge on those involved: Bradley, for humiliating his father, and potentially even sabotaging the trick; the bank in Paris and Tressler's company, which refused to pay insurance on his father's death; and the company that produced the safe used in the trick. Due to the inferior quality of metal used to construct the safe, it warped, resulting in Rhodes' father's inability to escape it. I just like how it connected together so well! Great film! The tricks got me & how they were done were spectacular! Go see it! You won't be disappointed!
9/10