Now You See Me -- most annoying movie I've seen in long time

This film was playing at the $3 theater so I rolled the dice on it without knowing a thing about. What an annoying movie. The director must have gotten a two for one sale on flying dolly cameras because evey shot seemed to be the camera circling the actors like a mosquito that just drained a meth addict. I was getting motion sickness. I kept thinking, please, enough with the dolly shots! And the movie was this ludicrist story about illusionists robbing banks (or something)' the eye of Horus and a miscast Morgan Freeman winking his way through the movie in a big black hat. What a pile.

 

The camerawork was definitely over the top, but I thought it was a mostly entertaining film. Lost steam as it went, but still enjoyable...

 

The plot was semi-ludicrous, but it was an enjoyable, entertaining film overall. I've seen worse.

 

Don't want to spoil but... I couldn't buy that the person who was behind it all, was behind it all.

 

It wasn't anything special but I found it entertaining, especially since it wasn't a sequel, a remake and didn't feature giant robots or superheroes.

 

Luda was in it?

 

nope...you must be thinking of Fast 6.

 

really, I like Mark...he's a good actor.

 

all the things so many love to bitch about...throw in CGI and we have a frenzy!

 

It was kind of a "Keyser Soze" reveal, but when I was in the theater, I thought it was pretty clever and I could buy into it. I'll try not to say too much (for those who haven't seen the film), but let me just say that one huge problem they never solved to my satisfaction is that it would take an enormous amount of money for the guy to pull this entire heist/caper off, and I couldn't see how a <character's job redacted> could get together that kind of money in the 25-30 years since the other person's death.

Some of the magic was also too impossible to me, but I know too much about real stage illusions and what goes into the planning and execution. I kind of grimace when they show magic tricks that clearly rely much too much on visual effects and not something that's at least sorta/kinda plausible. Floating in a bubble over the heads of a Las Vegas audience is not possible.

But I bought into the movie when I saw it, and it was enjoyable in a kind of weird, rollercoaster way. I can see why it was a hit, but I was surprised that it didn't just do well, it did extremely well ($300M) -- enough for the studio to announce a sequel with the same cast and director.

BTW, is it just me, or is Jesse Eisenberg the single most annoying actor in modern films today? His smarmy "smartest guy in the room" patter makes me grind my teeth after awhile. But I get that that's his character -- both in this and in Social Network.

As a special trick, they should've turned him into the Hulk at the end.

 

It all seemed pretty implausible and didn't make a whole lot of sense to me, logistically speaking. The worst thing was that, when it was over, I got the feeling that nothing had actually happened, which meant that I never really bought into any kind of conflict in the movie. It's clever and somewhat entertaining while it's on, but that's really about it.

 

I don't find that funny at all.

 

Sorta like Harrison Ford in "What Lies Beneath". Completely implausible.

 

I thought it was enjoyable.... As for Dylan (Mark Ruffalo) seemed like he spent years and years for 5 minutes of getting even with 1 guy...

 

I thought it was mainly badly directed. Too loud, too flashy, add to that to a wildly implausible script that was trying desperately to be brilliant and the whole thing came off to me like a big Las Vegas illusionist's act: gaudy, glitzy and sequined. I like magic, but that kind of act robs an illusion of any 'magic' in the real sense of the world for me, turning magic into a cheezy bleached-blonde Sigfried and Roy spectacle showered with tinsel confetti. That's how the how movie felt to me, a big glittering piece of Vegas spectacle. Underneath the it all --- vacant and basically there to separate you from your money. I was also bothered by the fact that it felt like a 120 minute advertisement for a new television series -- which I'm sure at heart it was.


SPOILER ALERT


Come on, after all the tricks pulled off, does anyone really think they'd arrest Morgan Freeman for that car packed with cash?

 

I agree. You should review movies for a living.

 

And this is another movie that depends heavily on the complete lack of security cameras anywhere in the area.

I didn't hate it, but there were definitely some pretty awful eye-rolling moments in the film. But you know, it wasn't horrible; I've seen a lot of movies that were far worse this year. And all the performers were fairly charming, and I think that helped sell the (implausible) story quite a bit. Mark Ruffalo is definitely a very understated actor given a very tough job in this film, particularly with the unexpected ending.

I'd like to reveal who I thought was going to be the instigator of all the events, but I feel like it would reveal too much. Suffice it to say, I was originally convinced it was somebody with a very foreign accent. That would've made more sense to me.

 

It's not as bad as Riddick, which I saw the other night. Speaking of foreign accents, it's such a terrible cliché to have one of your main bad guys with a South American or Eastern European accent. I absolutely hate that old trope.

 

I enjoyed it but the whole movie was really a slight of hand illusion.

Exactly. This is one of those movies that you either bought into and suspend your disbelief from the first half hour or you would hate it.

I enjoyed it even as I recognized how implausible it was.

 

started out real strong, fizzled to an end.

 

I feel exactly the same way about Eisenberg.

 

That's not fair. I like Michael Cera...

Andy Samberg and Eisenberg are annoying.

 

It started out ok but went quickly South.

 

I like Eisenberg and Cera. Can't stand Samberg.