It deserved to be great

Rating: Null/10 (5 July 2013)

A group of magicians perform a robbery live whilst in a show with the rest of a movie being a cat and mouse chase between themselves and the authorities.
One of the more intelligent plots, it has a lot going for it: a good cast on fine form, plenty of twists and balanced interplay between dialogue and action. The fact alone, we are made to sympathise with the team of lovely thieves says plenty.
Despite all this, you do not read amazing anywhere do you? Well, much as it has few pluses it is ultimately brought down by a conflict overindulgence to the point I became disconnected on a couple of occasions. Worse still, there was no need for that as the story itself was more than sufficient.
A good film overall, one that deserved to have been labelled great.