Magicians hold grudges . . .

Rating: 7/10 (15 July 2013)

. . . so if you watch NOW YOU SEE ME, you will know how to view your local magician. Some of the more recent movie magicians I've seen have not treated those around them very well. One flick featured a codger illusionist doing the finger-in-the-guillotine "trick"--but he had a mental lapse and CUT OFF ANOTHER CODGER'S DIGIT FOR REAL!! Another such show ended with the trickster murdering a mountain of magically cloned guys. Yet another destroyed a library in Ann Arbor, Michigan. NOW YOU SEE ME advances the stereotype of magicians as really dangerous people even further. A bank is robbed which does not even have FDIC insurance! (For the financially illiterate, that means that customers lose some or all of their savings account money!) The FBI is tricked into spending billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer involuntary "donations" in a futile pursuit of joyriding rogue illusionists. Magicians make mayhem on the freeways, with countless people injured and property-damaged. Unlike the victimized zombies in WORLD WAR Z, these illusionists have no excuse for wreaking havoc. NOW YOU SEE ME makes a great case for OUTLAWING MAGICIANS!