An entire movie about ambling. Whoda thunk?
Now You See Me (2013) is about seven magicians. Four are a team, working together to accomplish amazing feats of illusion; one is a monitor, tracking and deconstructing them.
And the last two? Ah, but that’d be telling.
Sadly, none of them come to life; they are a collection of cardboard cutouts in this story, a story formulated by tellers captivated by their own cleverness, and not about the impact of the plot on those who’ve been plotted about. As a result, there’s merely an intellectual question of where this is going, how the tricks are accomplished, and no driving need to see the plot succeed, or not, because of a connection to the characters.
At best, it’s a paean to the importance of planning and preparation.
And, maybe … well, that’d be telling, too.
Important to completists, I suspect, but not many others.
