An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who
pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their
audiences with the money.
Director:
Writers:
Ed Solomon (screenplay),
Boaz Yakin (screenplay)
Stars:
Story:
Overcooked, overcomplicated and underinteresting, this heist caper turns into a mess. Jesse Eisenberg , Isla Fisher, Woody Harrelson and Dave Franco play four funky magicians who are recruited by a mysterious individual to form an Avengers-style unit of conjuror-superheroes who are going to use their illusionist skills to pull off the most dazzling bank raid of all time.The opening 10 minutes are reasonably entertaining – crucially, this is the section of the movie not about bank-robbing – but it just gets tangled, wildly implausible and dull, and the quartet's mastery of the ordinary non-magic skills necessary in large-scale theft is entirely unconvincing, and no amount of narrative misdirection can get around this. Magic might in theory be an interesting subject for a movie: magic and cinema share their origins in the fairground tents of old. But I find that, although great when experienced for real, magic is always liable to look pointless and unsatisfying in the context of a fiction film. The magicians themselves have to be interesting characters, quite aside from their supposed skills. That trick doesn't come off.
Trailer:
Movie Rating (max. 5 Stars):
Summary:
A very entertaining movie. The story is interesting, the special effects wonderful and you don´t know what happens next. I never take a look to my watch and I was sad, when the movie was over. I hope there will be a continue. If possible I will give six stars. One of the best movies I´ve seen ever.
Box Office:
| Domestic Total as of Sep. 9, 2013: $117,400,877 | |
| Distributor: Lionsgate/Summit | Release Date: |
| Genre: Thriller | Runtime: 1 hrs. 56 min. |
| MPAA Rating: PG-13 | Production Budget: $75 million |
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