Check your brain at the door and you might enjoy it

Rating: 3/10 (18 January 2015)

This film that begins with shots of four different people performing some sort of "magic", mostly on the street (one in a theater) and being brought together for some unknown purpose, winds up mostly being about two police agents (FBI and Interpol) trying to stop this foursome from stealing more millions of dollars than they did in their first heist. The chase leads from Las Vegas to New Orleans to New York and the action is non-stop.
We are never given any characterization to cause us to like this foursome, we know nothing of their backgrounds. This is simply an action piece where we are on a non-stop chase to try to stop their crime spree. Throughout the film, we are given whirling and spinning camera shots that can easily make some viewers feel vertigo. I didn't react that much, but was very bored with the fact that almost every scene had us spinning around the room.
If you think about all that happened after its over, it is impossible to find more than a tiny bit of logic or believability in the entire script. There was no need for the mastermind to bring these four people together, and no reason to think they would happily agree to become wanted fugitives, particularly since they kept giving away the millions that were stolen.
The magic tricks could not really happen on a stage, as shown, but are only workable through the magic of Hollywood.
We never have any reason to care about any of the four "magicians" nor their pursuers. I think the only way to leave feeling it was a good movie is to think no farther than to say, "Wow, they had a lot going on in that one." They did, but almost nothing in there made sense or was logical. You don't have to be Mr. Spock to want a film that makes more sense to call it good.