Now You See Me, enjoying, Now You See Me!

Sometimes you need to forget logic, perfect story, coherent plot, slick direction ... & surrender to the kid in you, which just wants to enjoy a big summer film, full of magic, an impossible bank heist, pulled off on stage, in front of an audience, indulgently enjoy the eye candy of a great ensemble cast, led by Mr Incredible Hulk, Mark Rufalo & that Bollywood formula, of revenge & justifying robbing from the rich, by giving it back to the people....

On paper, ‘Now you See Me’, has the makings of an epic movie; four magicians, a mentalist (Woody Harrelson), an illusionist (our pretty shopaholic, Isla Fisher), a conjurer (Jesse Eissenberg – quite a jump, from playing a real-life character, facebook creator Marc Zuckerberg, to a magician!) & a card trickster (young David Franco) are brought together to use their combined skills, to rob a bank or two!

Enter Mark Rufalo, the cop on duty and his gorgeous Interpol colleague, who valiantly chase our friendly neighbourhood magicians, who amazingly always are a couple of steps ahead of them.

Oh yes, there is Morgan Freeman, who is the decoder of the magic tricks, Michael Caine, whose presence is a mystery & we still need to figure out the Robin Hood angle of looting the rich & giving back to the not-so-rich & the identity of the person who creates this magical army!

So maybe that why the movie falters a bit – too much in too little time! You don’t really get to sink your teeth into any of the characters because there are too many of them (I personally would have like more time with Mark Rufalo!) & you lose sight of the plot after a while.

But the optimist in me looked at this interesting mes, as the glass being half full – these are great actors & for the price of a ticket, you get to feast your eyes on all of them, thrill at the magic & illusions, enjoy the robber-cop chases, though a tad confused as to who you are cheering, the police or the criminals & while the movie gives you broad hints, it is fun to discover who the brain behind it all is & unravel the ‘Kab, Kyon, Kahaan’ of this cute little whodunit of sorts!

Now You Can See, why I liked seeing, ‘Now You See Me!’