marcicat | movie review: Now You See Me

Overall review: I liked it, but I probably wouldn’t watch it again.

Surprise~realization: Turns out tumblr spoiled me for the big reveal without even trying, but that was cool. I don’t really like suspense, so it actually made the movie much more enjoyable for me.

Magicians: smarmy. Had to keep reminding myself that I wasn’t watching Doctor Who or Supernatural, and the likelihood of anything truly terrifyingly awful happening was therefore much smaller. (Still glad Jack didn’t die. Whew.)

Actors: it would have been hilarious to me if this had been a Social Network / Avengers cracktastic crossover movie. Even better if Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone had been involved somehow.

Plot: interesting. Like many movies, the most interesting story would seem to begin after the movie ends. Once you’ve taken the revenge you spent your whole life orchestrating, what next?

Long note about scariness: It’s possible this movie should come with some sort of a ‘this is not a scary movie’ title card. Because sometimes it acts like a scary movie, and because it’s got that edge of ‘is it magic, or is it *magic*’ going on, there’s a sense that perhaps something truly terrifyingly awful *is* going to happen. (But nothing ever does.) Like, in Fast Five, when they open the safe on the bridge, I was all ‘lol nothing bad will happen here.’ But in Now You See Me, when they open the safe on the truck, I was more like ‘oh noes, what if it’s full of dead bodies?’ Which, no, it wasn’t — balloon animals, actually. Maybe it’s the music? Or maybe it’s the scary clown connection? IDK, but the movie’s not actually scary, so there’s that.

Mirrored from The Marci Rating System.