"The closer you look, the less you see," is a line repeated throughout in reference to pulling off a good magic trick. But once the credits roll, you realize that just about everyone involved here should probably be in jail.Īnd these magicians are committing these crimeswhy? Just to be member of some magic elitist club? I don't know about you, but if my favorite club asked me to rob a bank in order to join them, I would not want to be a member. The screenwriters want us to be sympathetic to the magicians' cause, and if you don't stop to think about what they are actually doing for a few minutes, it is easy to get sucked into their tricks and be sympathetic to their mission. Kind of.Ĭouple the CGI enhanced magic tricks with the smarmy and snooty infused dialogue and this story about four magicians who team up to commit robbery in order to join some mysterious magicians club, is not all it pretends to be. And when the big reveal happens at the end, there is a kind of Six Sense surprise moment. Without credibility you cannot have believability and without believability, you have a really boring movie.įortunately, most of the transgressions in this regard are forgivable (except for the mentalism and hypnosis aspects, which the movie asks you accept on "faith"). The reason such realism is so important in a story about deception and the art of magic is simple: credibility. Many tricks depicted in the picture are pulled off courtesy of special effectsand obviously soand they could never be pulled off in real life. However, the first rule of making a movie about the art of magic should be: make sure all your tricks are actually real magic tricks. Campayno (Key Makeup Artist), Stan Wlodkowski (Unit Production Manager), Richard Blake Wester (Leadman), Barbara Harris (ADR Voice Casting), Gloria Belz (Makeup Artist), Nicholas Brooks (Senior Visual Effects Supervisor) and others.The first rule of magic, according to Now You See Me, is to always be the smartest person in the room. , Larry Fong (Director of Photography), Robert Leighton (Editor), Vincent Tabaillon (Editor), Bobby Cohen (Producer), Alex Kurtzman (Producer), Roberto Orci (Producer), Michael Schaefer (Executive Producer), Stan Wlodkowski (Executive Producer), Boaz Yakin (Executive Producer), Carmen Cuba (Casting), Scott Plauche (Art Direction), Beauchamp Fontaine (Set Decoration), Jenny Eagan (Costume Design), Yuhon Ng (Animation), Gary Krause (Music Editor), Adam Milo Smalley (Music Editor), Amy Sanderson (Script Supervisor), Steve Boeddeker (Sound Designer), Steve Boeddeker (Sound Re-Recording Mixer), David Parker (Sound Re-Recording Mixer), Jonathan Null (Supervising Sound Editor), Linda Melazzo (Makeup Department Head), Kerrie Smith (Hair Department Head), Meagan McLaughlin (Costume Supervisor), Danny Michael (Sound mixer), Thomas Valentine (Supervising Art Director), Peter Wenham (Production Design), Joseph A. CREWĮdward Ricourt (Screenplay), Ed Solomon (Screenplay), Boaz Yakin (Screenplay), Boaz Yakin (Story), Edward Ricourt (Story), Brian Tyler (Original Music Composer), Mitchell Amundsen (Director of Photography) more. (Savoy Audience Member), Wendy Miklovic (Dylan's Tackler), Brad Abrell (Announcer), Randy Rousseau (New Orleans TV Reporter), Hunter Burke (Sazerac Bartender), Brian Tucker (FBI Agent Baskin), Teddy Cañez (FBI Lead Ground Agent), Joe Chrest (Elkhorn Janitor Agent), Kerry Cahill (Elkhorn Agent), Diego Miró (Dylan (12 years old)), Adella Gautier (Marie Claire), Han Soto (Mobile Command Leader), Jaren Mitchell (Henley's Frat Boy #1) and others. LaRose (Willy Mears), Justine Wachsberger (Paris Bank Manager), Christian Gazio (Armored Truck Driver), Benoit Cransac (Armored Truck Guard), Conan O'Brien (Conan O’Brien), Samantha Beaulieu (Mobile Command Tech Agent), Odessa Feaster (Josepha Hickey), Shannon Hand (Dina Robertson), Nicki Daniels Jr. Griffin (Hypnotized Man), Adam Shapiro (Jack's Pick-Pocket Victim), J. , Michael Caine (Arthur Tressler), Michael Kelly (Agent Fuller), Common (Evans), David Warshofsky (Cowan), José Garcia (Etienne Forcier), Jessica Lindsey (Hermia), Caitríona Balfe (Jasmine Tressler), Stephanie Honoré (Atlas Groupie), Stanley Wong (MGM Grand Usher), Laura Cayouette (Hypnotized Woman), Douglas M. Daniel Atlas), Mark Ruffalo (Dylan Rhodes), Woody Harrelson (Merritt McKinney), Isla Fisher (Henley Reeves), Dave Franco (Jack Wilder), Mélanie Laurent (Alma Dray), Morgan Freeman (Thaddeus Bradley) more.
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