12/6/2023 0 Comments Who plays in now you see meMost cartoon characters have more backstory than these Horsemen have. Most typically, they could have been people with individual grudges they could settle through their joint actions. Most plausibly, they could have been playful anarchists or, more provocatively, a deliberately mixed combo of anti-big finance and anti-big government types. As the Horsemen are not in it purely for profit, almost any catalyst for what they do, however simplistic, would have been helpful. It’s all about the game, the tricks, with no deeper context or involving motivation other than a vaguely stated impulse for Robin Hood-ish redistribution of wealth. But despite all the frenetic activity onscreen, interest in the participants wanes quickly because all you ever see of these people are fronts, postures they’ve adopted to position themselves in the illusionist world they occupy, which even in this pretend world confines them to cardboard-cutout status that inspires no audience investment. The smart-mouthed script by Ed Solomon, Boaz Yakin and Edward Ricourt challenges the audience to outguess the screenwriters by tossing around such phrases as “targeted deception” and “the closer you look the less you see” and encourages skepticism about the true intentions of the characters. ![]() This Summit release could do reasonably well out of the gate but will have trouble holding its own against heavy summer competition. ![]() Propelled by hyperkinetic action, constantly swooping camera moves and a techno score that never quits, this attractively cast caper makes such a big point of things not being what they seem that, by process of elimination, you can hardly help guessing who’s really behind everything. Now You See Me is a superficially diverting but substance-free concoction, a would-be thriller as evanescent as a magic trick and one that develops no suspense or rooting interest because the characters possess all the substance of invisible ink.
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