Good, but flawed.

Rating: 6/10 (30 January 2014)

I came on here to find out other peoples views on a movie I couldn't quite work out. Was I missing something?
Firstly the casting was very good for the most part. The opening scenes showed off some really talented actors, the magicians. Jesse Eisenberg can't seem to do any wrong and is destined to greatness. Woody Harrelson, brilliant as ever, Isla Fisher pulls off a strong confident role coming a long way from 'Home and Away'.
I feel it was let down by it's two main actors, firstly Mark Ruffalo, he was out of his depth in the company of the magicians, coming across a little sloppy and uncomfortable.
Then Mélanie Laurent, the accent was the strangest French accent I've heard, I don't know why but she sounded like an American trying too hard to sound French and making a bad job of it. She is French, I know, it really annoyed me. As beautiful an actress she is, the camera shots directed at her were trying too hard. That combined with the dodgy accent was a little off-putting.
All the scenes were shot well, the magic was a little unbelievable at times, but that didn't matter, hey, it's the movies and it has to be entertaining. It's obvious this is a 'big picture' movie, the quality of the stunt scenes are great and you can't help but be sucked in wanting and looking forward to what happens next.
I don't want to be a spoiler, but the reasoning for the help from others seems unbelievable, are they happy to live on the run for the rest of their lives? And for what? It was nearly a great film and enjoyable, and shall watch it again to see if second time around it will sit even better. I feel the end production was a bit out of place, Ruffalo's epilogue storyline was too thin. To me it seemed to have very little to do with the actual movie and the quality of the performance for these scenes, Freeman included was poor. I was left feeling they rolled this out too quickly, a promising film which fails to deliver the all important end result. A shame, as for the most part, it's very good.