Now You See Me Review
CAROLINE: Oh no, what?
RYAN: Good trailer, bad movie.
CAROLINE: Oh really?! That’s so sad. This cast is amazing.
RYAN: I know. I’m seriously disappointed. I obviously went in with high expectations because of the cast and the trailer is amazing. But this movie is a major fail.
CAROLINE: It’s possible. It happens. What went wrong here?
RYAN: Well it starts out okay. I liked the first scene and all of the magic trickery. It’s set up in a way where each of the magicians and illusionists are all interesting in their own right, well defined and the come together with their strengths fitting like pieces of a puzzle.
CAROLINE: That sounds good.
RYAN: But then the whole story flips the switch. I don’t do spoilers so I won’t give anything away, but it’s that when the movie ends and you look back at the story, it doesn’t work. It’s illogical. You’re basically identifying with each character – one more than the others – and then the momentum fizzles.
CAROLINE: That sounds confusing. Is it a confusing movie?
RYAN: Completely. It’s a very lazy script in that it’s intricate but never effectively clues you in, as the audience, as to how it all works. It’s a mess.
CAROLINE: Well the cast looks amazing. How was Morgan Freeman?
RYAN: It’s the worst performance of his career! I love him, but I swear it was like he’d never acted before. It was like he was just out of high school. I’m embarrassed for him in this movie.
CAROLINE: Ouch. What about Mark Ruffalo?
RYAN: Hulk was good but his character totally annoyed me. Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isl Fisher and Dave Franco were all fine and I liked them the most as the magicians; their chemistry as a quartet was great but the movie isn’t about them as much as Ruffalo’s character… so that’s a bummer.
CAROLINE: Wow, I’m actually surprised by this one.
RYAN: And the score is also noteworthy – cause it sucked. It was like ripped from some bad, cheesy ’80s movie.
CAROLINE: Eek. This is all so disappointing.
RYAN: Tell me about it. I love magic and this cast and the trailer looked so good so it’s one of the biggest disappointments in recent history.
