Unbelievable (not in a good way) and tedious

Rating: 6/10 (10 November 2013)

I call this genre of movies "Keep track of a lot of junk and try to figure out what's really going on, but we'll make sure you're wrong," a.k.a. "puzzle movie." Too much work. Can't be bothered. I want to be entertained, not put to work. I gave it a 6/10 for some entertaining bits, and because I did like the characters, but the overall storyline was very annoying and *tedious*. A movie should be enjoyed, not tedious. And I think the reason it was hard to figure out what was really going on was because the explanations for so many things were just not plausible or believable. Also, I would have liked for the story to give more time to the skeptical side of magic and skepticism in general. The story alludes to the reality that magic is just distraction and illusion, but it doesn't tie that deception into life in general—that we should be more skeptical in all areas of life, for example.