Awful movie, and it's awful that it scores so high on IMDb

Rating: 2/10 (27 January 2014)

If you enjoy overproduced, brainless Hollywood fare that only has pointless glitter and brightly colored movement as its keystones, you'll love "Now You See Me".
Ostensibly a film set in the world of stage magic, it might as well be set in the land of Oz for all the connection it has to that most fascinating of arcane entertainments. If you want a film that explores magic, why not check out the quintessential The Prestige by Christopher Nolan, or even the slightly overrated The Illusionist with Monsieur Edward Norton. Don't look at this utter garbagefest.
This movie commits many of the major crimes of bad movie-making; clichéd stock characters, a lack of directorial restraint, a reliance on poorly integrated CGI and a very, very rudimentary and poorly realized plot. Scratch that, there were two plots in this movie... and at least one of them was totally and utterly redundant. Actually I think both plot lines might have been redundant.
The movie contained some very fine actors. In fact, it contains some of my favorite actors. By the end of the film, I pretty much hated them for appearing in this affront to my intelligence.
Like the infamous "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Remember His Past Lives" before it, I feel that Now You See Me has a mind-altering effect upon the weak-minded; I fear that all the IMDb reviewers that rated this above 5 out of 10 must have had their brains addled by the sheer horribleness and meaninglessness of this cheap, patronizing, irrelevant cavalcade of drivel. And they should all be heartily ashamed of themselves for showing that IMDb scores- long a useful method of telling good films from bad- are now totally unreliable.