Lazy and stupid

Rating: 4/10 (21 April 2016)

Among the stupid movies, Now You See Me is a certain breed of stupid. It's a dumb and lazy movie trying hard to look smart for dumb people.
Tha cast is stellar but it doesn't matter because plot is stupid, tricks are plain bad and overuse of CGI to make those tricks look cooler is even worse. It's almost as if it was created by someone who never saw a magic show in his or her life.
Photography plays a huge role here, because with those constant moving, circling shots, movie tries to make everything look cool and grand and whatever but it just makes everything look even more fake and stupid. It visually tries to hide it's stupidity behind dynamic camera work and lots of CGI.
Characters are dumb, cheap and not interesting. Even if he's first billed, the main role isn't actually Eisenberg, however hard promos for this try to make you believe that. It's Mark Ruffalo and Melanie Laurent, everyone else are side characters. Motivations are dumb, plot goes nowhere.
There is a reason why Prestige is considered on of the best magician themed movies and Ocean's Eleven as one of the best heist movies. Both movies primarily wanted to tell you a story, a cool story in a smart way. Now You See Me does the opposite, it tries to dazzle you with it's hollow and cheap jewelry, hoping that you're too dumb to think about it, care or see through it. It's like you have two dumb persons of the same level of dumbness but one is dressed in fancy clothes made of white, shiny paper and tries to impress the other dumb person, that also has poor vision.
Usually movies like this are around 5/10 because they have the cast and it looks like a movie and it has some OK parts but just because it also made me groan in small fury at moments I'm giving it 4/10. And that's mercy.