Now You See Me Movie

This past year a lot of eye catching movies made it to the big screen, one that particularly stood out to me was the heist film, Now You See Me. The movie stars a few well-known people such as Morgan Freeman, Mark Ruffalo, Isla Fisher, Woody Harrelson, and Dave Franco. The movie in a nutshell is very well explained by the synopsis provided by IMDB “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.” There are many magic tricks that take place besides just the bank robbery, however, that trick is the main focus point throughout the whole movie. In the film, “Now You See Me” there is a lot of interesting features such as; the characters and their roles, the high and weak points of the overall plot, the foreshadowing displayed in the film, the conflicts presented in this film, as well as a few good life lesson to learn.

In this particular movie, there are a lot of significant characters. The magicians, known as the Four Horsemen, are our big tricksters in this situation. The first is Daniel Atlas; he is a world renowned magician, who has few nervous qualities about him. He tends to be very similar to our antagonist according to Stephanie Merry who stated “They’re fun to watch with their sweet delivery of witticisms, but they’re also dismissive and self-righteous.” The next person in the Four Horseman is Merritt McKinney, the Mentalist. We are introduced to him through a scene where is conning a couple for money. There is another con artist in the Four Horseman known as Jack Wilder. He is the youngest of the group, and he is considered childish until the end of the movie. He is also a con-artist and looks up to big name magi...

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...vie doesn’t. I love the foreshadowing in this film! It’s great once you figure it out because you can watch the film again and it gets even better. The conflict is truly amazing; it’s great that there is both internal and external conflict. Also, it’s not just a film with no message, there is actually meaning behind everything that happens which I enjoy as I’m sure other people do as well. The film “Now You See Me” has a lot of ideas and qualities about it once you take a closer look at it, and evaluate it. In the end, it is a great film and is one that I would recommend.

Works Cited

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1670345/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/now-you-see-me-movie-review/2013/05/30/c7e5d2d8-c926-11e2-9245-773c0123c027_story.html http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/now_you_see_me/quotes/

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/NowYouSeeMe