Lame and uninteresting

Rating: 3/10 (8 September 2013)

This was a major disappointment. I really did not know what to expect, but it certainly was not this mess. The only things I did like was the acting of Morgan Freeman, and Michael Caine, and I suppose Woody Harrelson did a pretty good job too. Other than that, this was just awful. The characters are all as shallow as a puddle, with all the likability of the drunk college frat boys across my street. Seriously, I was cheering for the Four horsemen to be caught and flogged in jail because they were all irritating, ungrateful, and nearly got several innocent people killed. Jesse Eisenberg's character and Franco's character and acting are very bad. Eisenberg is still the character he was in the Social Network, and I did not even like him or that movie then. I really do not see the big deal about this guy. And James Franco's brother has about as much talent as Patrick Wayne did in comparison to his father (I'll give you a hint; it is not a whole lot). The Story was rendered completely and utterly pointless by the stupid "twist" at the end, which to be honest was not that interesting, and was contrived and devoid of logic to begin with so it did not do as much harm as it should have. The effects were the final nail in the coffin, As soon as I saw the utterly cheap and shameless CGI I felt like leaving. It was a depressing experience to see this film literally butchered by crap CGI and cheesy cinematography within the first five minutes. This film, on the surface is close to a modern equivalent of Arabesque; a film that has as little logic as possible peppered with crazy cinematography. But Arabesque at least had Gregory Peck, and Sophia Loren who were better actors than any of the four horsemen here, are Sophia was easily better looking than anyone in this movie. Do not waste your time here, this was garbage. While technically a far worse film, Sharknado is easily better than Now You See Me, or any other film this year for sheer unpretentious fun. Aren't the summer blockbuster's supposed to be fun anyway?