The movie ’’Now you see me’’(Suuri puhallus) is an american thriller and it was released in 2013. Film was directed by Louis Leterrier and he is known for his international movies such as ’’The incredible Hulk’’. The movie is stared by four magicians, Woody Harrelson (Merrit), Isla Fisher (Henley), Jesse Eisenberg (Daniel) and Dave Franco (Jack). Mark Ruffalo (Dylan) and Melanie Laurent (Alma) are the agents who investigate the case. Morgan Freeman (Thaddeus) is the agents help and Michael Caine (Arthur) is the magicians manager. In my opinion the characters were picked up with care. For instance magicians are a bit weird and mysterious and in the movie those traits did came up.
The movie tells about illusionists, magicians, who rob corrupted banks during their shows and steal money from multimillionaires. After that they donate the money to the audience. The magicians don’t know why they are told to do all that, they just follow the instructions from the magical ’’Eye’’.
It all starts when four amateur magicians are invited to a certain place at a certain time. Only a year later they are known as ’’the Four horsemen’’ and they amaze the audience doing unbelievable tricks or what the FBI-agents who are chasing them would say, crimes. Their first mind-blowing task is to rob a bank in Paris while they are in Las Vegas. Morgan Freeman who plays Thaddeus tries to help the agents to expose them and reveal the secret: what they do and how they do it. The great part is that the illusionists seem to be one step ahead of them all the time and yet they have bigger surprises coming.
The film moves forward quickly but it is not hard for the viewers to keep up with the speed. The effects used in the movie create grandiosity. Money is flying from the sky and bright lights are flashing and dashing everywhere and the music suites the movie perfectly. All the effects create a certain state of mind and atmosphere. It almost feels like you are there yourself, watching the show with all the amazing magic in it.
It’s up to the viewers on the other side of the screen to decide whether it is really magic or just very skilled cheating. It certainly feels like magic because those kind of things don’t happen in real life. All of the tricks were revealed in the movie and after that it was funny to see how wrong you can be when you are thinking about how the trick was made. The sentence which is repeated very often in the movie ’’the more you think you see the easier it will be to fool you’’ really proved itself right. Everything is not necessarily happening under your nose.
You would think that it made the movie poor when you saw how the tricks were made but i think it only made it more fascinating. When watching it feels so overwhelming that all you can think about is how it was executed. Your brain is on fire about all the wondering and it only feels good to finally know the truth.
The conclusion of the movie was a bit unexpected when you found out who the ’’Eye’’ was. When I watched the movie for the first time it did not really come open but after watching it for the second time it all came clear to me. Overall this movie was worth watching and it became one of my favorites so far.
I have to agree with you! This film is so good that I could watch it over and over again!