Now You See Me

When I saw this movie poster, I was like "what is this..why so long movie title?". Had no interest of watching this. Then I watched the movie trailer when I'm watching some other movie in cinema and o.m.g it blew my mind. MAGIC !! and THIEF?! i got interested and started to Imdbed it and went to cinema website to see when it releases and this week, a day after it released, I watched it.

1. The story is about magic. I personally love story like this. It is so unusual and unique topic to have in movie. So many movies are now based on robots and monsters and typical love story or comedy and somehow cruel horror films. This movie was different. It was serious and not funny (it was funny some parts but not as comedy funny. Didn't intend to have comedy genre at all). It didn't involve any robots or monsters or love story and wasn't scary at all. This movie stood out from other movies are I have watched in cinema because of the distinctive storyline. Refreshing will be the word.

2. Excellent use of actors and actress. The movie used all familiar faces, which means that all of them have experience. Good years of experience in acting and hence knows how to act. None of them were weird and made me uncomfortable like Pacific Rim. Acting helped me to connect myself with the movie and movie characters and concentrated on watching movie for entire 2 hours without thinking when this movie is going to end.

3. Well made. I don't think the cost of producing this movie is as high as other action genre movies. Hence, relatively, this movie is well made. Good and relevant use of graphics, lines that make you chuckle and whole magics that create your movie experience positive. I believe the director knows how to make good film, which was pleased to see because I enjoyed it a lot ! But I'm not sure if I'm going to watch it again in cinema. I don't know why but I just think this movie is second time cinema movie. Definitely watch it in cinema because you can't wait until it releases DVD but doesn't make you want to watch it again in cinema. I will definitely buy it in DVD when it's on like $10 (which means I have to wait after a year). It would have been maybe more interesting and exciting and make me want to watch it again if it was on 3D and some of the magic trips are shown in 3D, for example the card flying and shooting to detective or the bubble magic. It would have been amazing if it was available in 3D.

4. Lots and lots of product placement. Starting from Las Vegas' hotels, cars (BMW etc), Pepsi (so obvious !) and so on. Some cars and Pepsi were very obvious and can tell that they paid this movie production cost. I personally think Pepsi was too much to see. Why is it so necessary to have Pepsi on interrogation room? it was just silly.

5. Good twist on characters. Some were obvious like a magician dying on car explosion. For the entire time, I was thinking maybe the detective is the eye magician but I couldn't confirm my feeling but that when it did, I was like "wow". During the movie, I thought Morgan Freeman was indeed one of the magician and It was interesting to see how he was framed by the detective. I also thought the French girl might be the real magician's assistant or that whole characters were hypothesized by one of the magicians. The movie made me think like I am the one who is solving this case and it was good to see how one of my solution was indeed true. It made it "obvious" but good obvious because I thought about other scenarios too (which made is not so obvious). But I can't help but think that the movie was rushed at the end. It was slow paced in the beginning and all of a sudden, everything was fast-paced as if it was rushing to show the audiences how all of this is solved and how this was possible for 2 hours. Yes the magic shows were amazing and maybe appropriate but maybe because it was showing the magic tricks for several minutes, at the end, there was a rush of chasing the magicians, trying to explain how all of the story are linked together at the end. It was just rushed. I personally would not mind if it was a bit over 2 hours and keep up their pace so I don't feel rushed but I understand that majority of moviegoers are expecting the movie to finish in 2 hours.

Highly recommend to watch this movie in cinema !
4/5