Thoroughly enjoyed it

Rating: 10/10 (9 September 2013)

This was one of the best mind benders since The Usual Suspects. Four magicians brought together to pull off one of the biggest heists in history using what else - - magic. Yet to make it work, they each needed to work together as a whole to make the illusions happen. Armed with various tools of the trade including technological they begin to mesmerize the audience with their craft. In the middle is an FBI agent along with a french girl from Interpol. Now the case becomes more complex when a dubious, yet audacious ex-magician is put in the melting pot (Morgan Freeman) to help debunk each trick the team dreams up and pulls off.
With the first trick that has a man from France in the audience in Vegas no less, was to partake in one heist. And that is to rob the french bank of Paris. Pulling off that stunt was sheer genius. I like the fact that although the FBI were involved, I never dreamt that our FBI agent himself, Dylan (Mark Ruffalo), was the son of a famous illusionist who died earlier in his career pulling off a dangerous stunt.
The complex scenes of each robbery, the ways the team used the environment to make causes and effects was enough to blow me away. If anything, whoever thought up this movie was on the ball. A great story, some villains (Freeman, Caine) to show us how bad they really were in in front of the public. Meaning how they used the public's confidence to having each one believe that magic is not real. Plus the fact how the story meshed into itself from directions of the compass.
I really liked Caine's role though. Having been exposed as the man behind the insurance fraud which made a lot of people destitute from Hurricane Katrina. Used in the act by none other than his team of magicians to show the audience the real culprit against him.
I have to give this movie ten stars, I absolutely enjoyed this film. Highly recommended to those over 14.