An Enjoyable Film, but the Twist didn't seem to work.

Rating: 5/10 (10 August 2013)

While I have marked this commentary as may having spoilers I will assure you that it does have spoilers, and quite a lot of them at that. Unfortunately my analysis of this film makes it necessary to do so, so if you do want to see this film, and it is an enjoyable two hours out of the house (not counting the time to get to and from the cinema), then please don't read any further.
This movie seems to have brought out some conflicting views, suggesting that the major twist that occurs at the end is either to do with the major theme of not looking too close, or simply really bad. I am tempted to fall into the really bad category, except that if the idea of looking too close ends up throwing you, then watching the movie again is not going to do any good because one usually watches a movie again so as to look closer to try and see why something turned out the way it did.
Basically the movie is about how four street musicians are brought together by a mysterious stranger (who they never meet) and go on to perform three sell out shows. However it is indicated (at least in the first show) that the huge audience is merely illusionary and part of the overall plot (which, as it turns out is a revenge plot). While at first it seems as if this magic show is simply that, a magic show using mostly sleight of hand, they end up robbing a bank, once again using sleight of hand. In fact, sleight of hand is used throughout the film to make what appears nonsensical, or impossible, to actually seem possible (though some commentators seem to think that they have gone a little overboard).
However, the problem comes out with the mole working within the FBI to throw the FBI off of the trail. To me that does not make sense at all. In fact, for most of the movie, until he is revealed to be the mole, it seems as if he is working with the FBI, and that he is being used and tricked as is the rest of the FBI. For instance, he had a bug in his phone, and he seemed to be surprised that there was a bug in his phone. Secondly, he gives chase to the magicians, and does little to actually lose them. However, that could be suggested that he was going this because he had an interpol agent tagging along with him, and he had to show himself as being a loyal agent not to tip any of them off. Still, the fact that they (1) chained him to the desk and (2) switched his mobile phone (which we see happen in a video) suggests otherwise (though we should remember that none of the magicians actually knew who he was until the end of the film).
As I said before, this film ends up being what one would call a revenge film. Basically the child of a father whom he believed was unfairly killed, and then jilted of any money he might have inherited, decides to go after all of the people who were involved in that scam. I can understand the safe making company, the insurance boss, and the guy that likes exposing magicians, but I am still unsure as to why he went after the bank. However, the whole Eye of Horus thing and the fact that he was simply a vengeful kid, didn't quite work for me either.