Goes to big and ends up stumbling across the finish line

Rating: 5/10 (11 December 2013)

I was hyped for watching Now You See Me. And for the first half of the movie i was enjoying it (even though there were a lot of plot holes). But what this movie does wrong is that it tries to be something more than what it actually is. I expected the magic to be clever and based in reality. Some of it was - but some of these tricks were just so fancy that they were boring.
Example: (MINOR Spoiler INCOMING, SKIP IF UNWANTED) At one point in the movie they are doing magic with bubbles, and one of the three horsemen jumps into a giant bubble and starts floating around over the audience. Now don't get me wrong - seeing this in real life would blow my mind. But it just seems impossible to explain and that just makes it boring in a way, and i takes me out of the movie. Every magic show always has that one final trick that blows everyones mind. Its like this movie tried to make every trick be that - but it just doesn't work that way.
(SPOILER OVER) The movie over does many magic tricks, and also ends up over doing the entire plot. The plot twist in this movie has so many holes in it.
Lets set up pros and cons
PROS - entertaining and sparkling! there is almost no points in this movie where you are bored. It throws in entertainment in every scene. That is if you can overlook all of the plot holes and at times cheesy dialog

Cinematography is excellent. When some magic tricks are explained you fly around and see things from interesting angels in exiting ways

Great casting. A lot of the casting of this movie is great. And almost everyone pulls their weight. But it seems that some loose interest towards the later parts of the movie and lose their passion.

CONS - TONS of plot holes. There are so many cheesy inexplainable things that happen at every turn at this movie. And in the end of the overly complex story line your just sitting there unsatisfied. The passion was there, but there just wasn't enough thought behind it all and it ends up being plain stupid.

At times cheesy dialog. Exactly as said, cheesy lines in bound.

to much of everything. i can take a complex story, if it unfolds in good passing and in good style. But it just seems that they tried to cram in so much at the same time with no thought. This is a movie that places quantity over quality and puts in as much sparkle as possible. Too many subplots.

bad character development. It tries it best to make us feel for some of the characters but again it fails in this regard. It just feels crammed in. You just don't care.

To many lens flares. It needs to stop SERIOUSLY ITS IN ALMOST EVERY SHOT OF THE MOVIE!

All in all - worth watching and entertaining if you just turn of your brain for a while. This is truly a Vegas gambling style movie. looks exiting but its just full of crap and in the end you just feel like you haven't gotten your monies worth.