A cool and easy premise, a really crappy movie

Rating: 2/10 (12 February 2014)

The pacing is one of my biggest problem with this movie. It's supposed to be a Mystery/Thriller (according to IMDb) but it has an action movie pacing, which makes no room for any of the characters to develop or for the twist (believe me, i use some terms very loosely) to have any weight.
It's like getting a good movie like The Usual Suspects and trying to remake it in the pace of Crank. It will be a huge smoldering piece of turd.
The dialogue is just terrible, all of the characters lines are just thrown on the movie, with complete disregard for the last scene you just experienced, making the "jokes" (i did it again) so obvious and predictable that you are cringing in embarrassment even before the characters said them. The same happens with the supposedly cool or heavy dialogues, you can see them a mile away since most (if not all) the movie lines are a mashed disgusting brown paste of cliché and bad acting. The lines would probably be half bad if the rhythm of the movie wasn't so messed up, the movie will many times cut to a character just so he can say his "witty" line and them back to what was happening before the cut, making the lines not interesting to say the least
The magic tricks are just ridiculous, it's like the writers knew that they couldn't make interesting or surprising tricks so they just decided to make them obvious so the audience can feel like they are smart for seeing through them. And dear god they do waaaaaaay too many tricks during the movie, it's like if in Oceans Eleven they robbed the 3 casinos separately. By the time they reach the third casino, you just don't care anymore. Their magic tricks are so ridiculously dumb that you begin to think that their best magic tricks are the ones with no importance on the movie (like transforming the rabbit in a hat).
About the characters in this movie, they are so bad that is almost unfair to talk about them, but I will do it anyway. Ruffalo's character (and all of the FBI to be quite honest) are so incompetent that it's just sad, it's like the writers decided to ridicule them on purpose, reminding me of the police from The Mask, I was constantly waiting to watch them dance Cuban Pete with Jim Carrey but it didn't happen. As for the team of magicians, the Four Horsemen, their characters have no exchanges of opinions or ideas through the whole movie, they don't suffer any crysis or even have any lines between themselves, I laughed so hard in a scene that Jesse Eisenberg says to Dave Franco "aren't you always complaining about wanting to be treated as an adult", because that sort of complaint and behavior isn't shown on the whole movie as they rarely even talk to each other.
It's like The Four horsemen are just characters summaries, their personalities are so uni-dimensional and you don't see any character development or anything about them aside from their introduction in the movie. The trailers make it seem like they are the main characters of the movie, but instead of seeing a movie about a team of robbers, it's a movie about a shallow romance of an incompetent FBI agent.
This is possibly one of the worst movies i ever watched, it's just so flawed and it's supposed to be serious, i don't know how they could have made such a shitty work with such an cool and easy to do premise, almost any story that you can think about a group of magicians that rob a bank during a live show will be cool. It's a terrible movie, with terrible characters, terrible rhythm, terrible story with an easy and cool premise.