Has it's flaws but watchable and entertaining

Rating: 7/10 (20 June 2013)

Now I wasn't sure I was going to like this flick after seeing the trailers. I don't know it just reminded me of the movie "Jumper" except with teens that do magic instead of teleportation as the primary focus. And has a badass black guy that is on their trail, except instead of Samuel L. Jackson it's Morgan Freeman who is always awesome on screen whether he be the good guy or the villain. In fact he is the show stealer in this movie in my opinion, his on screen presence always absorbed me into the movie. Magic is basically the art of being quick, swift and clever enough to trick the human eyes. And maybe a bit of mind games thrown in there to divert the attention from how the trick is really done. But it can also just be an optical illusion. It's kinda like pulling off a heist in a lot of ways, except it's legal. Except in this the team is really pulling off heists. While cops on on their traile, including Morgan Freeman's character who is a magician himself. And knows just about all the tricks of the game. Although this is watchable and entertaining the main flaw is how stupid it becomes. Despite few clever moments. And it's not really all the magic aspect of this movie, things just become really dumb to the point it gets kinda irritating since it just doesn't make much sense. And the plot seems to be all over the place, I am not sure if it's to give off an illusion to make it seem more clever and intelligent than it really is. But it just didn't seem coherent. After the long build up the ending also seemed a bit rushed. Despite the flaws this is a watchable movie that is actually worth a matinée price to go see. In fact this movie got me into doing few magic tricks of my own.
7.4/10