First published at
Mostly Movies on 11 June 2013.
It opens with an impressive magic trick – one that is
played on you, the movie audience – as Jesse Eisenberg, playing street magician
Daniel Atlas plies a card trick for both his fictional street audience and the
camera. I will admit to having been duped by the card trick even though I knew
it was really a trick of digital effects more than anything else. That,
unfortunately, is the method behind most of the magic in Now You See Me, a movie about magicians pulling off one of the
greatest tricks in history that fails to enthrall as magic and just barely
holds up even as movie magic.
