Is it possible to simultaneously like a movie and be a little bit let down? This film presents a pretty good heist premise. Four independent magicians are brought together by some unknown kingpin to utilize magic as a guise for some very large thefts (millions from a bank, insurance company CEO and vault company). The execution is clever and really utilizes the premis of magic well. This is also the let-down. Magic on film could be magic, or it could be CGI? Without revealing the reality (which a magician never does, right?) this may as well be a Disney princess movie. So while liking the plot and the idea, and even liking the device of magic/illusion as mechanism for theft, I was disappointed in the reliance on magic for effect. Can't have it both ways? Maybe not, but that means that I don't have rave over the film either.
3 stars (out of 5)
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