Director: Louis Leterrier
Cast: Dave Franco, Isla Fisher, Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Melanie Laurent, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Woody Harrelson
Plot: The Four Horsemen, a magic super-group led by the charismatic Atlas, perform a pair of high-tech magic shows; first astonishing audiences by robbing a bank on another continent, and then exposing a white-collar criminal and funnelling his millions into the audience members' bank accounts. FBI Special Agent Dylan is determined to make the magicians pay for their crimes and to stop them before they pull off what promises to be an even more audacious heist. But he is forced to partner with Alma (Melanie Laurent), an Interpol detective about whom he is instantly suspicious. Out of desperation he turns to Thaddeus, a famed magic debunker, who claims the bank heist was accomplished using disguises and video trickery. One thing Dylan and Alma agree on is that the Horsemen must have an outside point person, and that finding him (or her) is the key to ending the magicians' crime spree. Could it be Thaddeus? Or Alma? Or could it really be... magic?
My Movie Review: The movie is tricky in the sense that you don't know what's true or not but I liked it. The movie fits for the phrase "the end justifies the means" they used bad methods by accomplishing something good. They give back to their audience some money to the bank they robbed and they making it as if it's magic. The element of group working together reminds me the movie "21" released in 2008 where group of students trained to become experts in card counting, now it's about exhibition of magic tricks on bigger stage.
My Favorite Line: "The closer you look, the less you see"
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