Review: Now You See Me (Louis Letterier, 2013)

Now You See Me, directed by Louis Letterier (The Transporter), and written by Ed Solomon, Boaz Yakin and Edward Ricourt, is a competently executed and entertaining deception thriller with a headline all-star cast. Consistently intriguing and often spectacular and relying on a magician’s deft slight-of-hand, this preposterously elaborate caper perhaps doesn’t hold up particularly well on close scrutiny. But if you surrender yourself to being taken along for a ride and relish in being fooled then this should be quite enjoyable.

Four gifted independent magicians – Daniel Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg), Merritt McKinney (Woody Harrelson), Jack Wilder (Dave Franco) and Henley Reeves (Isla Fisher) – are mysteriously brought together by an unknown mastermind, teaming up to become ‘The Four Horsemen’. For the grand finale of their first Las Vegas performance they live rob a Parisian bank. The sensational misdirect, with more promised to come in their future acts, leads to an FBI Agent, Dylan Rhodes (Mark Ruffalo), leading a thorough investigation. He finds himself partnered with a rookie Interpol Agent (Melanie Laurent).

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