Today’s movie review is about Now You See Me, a crime mystery movie featuring Jesse Eisenberg (the same actor who played Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network), Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, and Dave Franco, among others.

Now You See Me is about a group of four magicians with the stage name The Four Horsemen. Starting as four individual performers, they were brought together by The Eye, a legendary icon in magic history.

After coming together, the Four Horsemen successfully demonstrate never-before seen magic tricks, live in front of an audience. the finales of these performances end in robberies – once robbing a bank in another continent, and another robbing a wealthy man, then distributing all the money to the studio audience.

On the case to stop these magicians-turned-criminals are two law enforcement officials, a man from the FBi and a woman from Interpol. Although the man seems frustrated at those who get captivated with magic, the woman elects to take the smarter route and does research in an attempt to fight magic with magic.

Eventually, the crime is solved and the person believed to be behind everything is imprisoned. However, is the suspect really responsible for everything? Or was the real answer right in front of us the whole time?

This movie does a great job integrating magic into a very realistic story and plot. It also emphasizes that magic is deception, more than anything else, and it’s not the magician tricking us, but us tricking ourselves. The ultimate reveal of deception comes at the end of the movie when the answer to the movie’s mystery was right in front of us the whole time, but we just tricked ourselves into not seeing it.

I enjoyed watching this movie, and thought it had a great, well-connected plot with good event progression. This movie did a great job at wasting little time, and making every minute count towards developing the story and culminating to the final reveal. I definitely recommend Now You See Me to people who enjoy thrillers, as the story will keep you attached and constantly thinking.