The closer you look, the less you see

Rating: 6/10 (30 April 2014)

As a magician myself, I love films that look in to a magicians world, The Prestige being one of my favorite films so Now You See Me really interested me. And in terms of showmanship and effects, it delivers, its a huge magical spectacle, but, just like the best of magic effects, the closer you look the less you see.
This film is all style and no substance. The characters are all paper thin, nothings clear about why they do anything they do, even at the end where we are given a conclusion that stretches your disbelief so far, that the mystery is shattered by just how far down the rabbit hole they go to try and fool you into thinking what you just saw was magic, when really, it was just a huge con job.
Overall, The spectacle of the show is what kept me involved, It made me smile because, even as a magician, the film feels like magic, it loves how it presents magic and thats what magic is about, presentation.