'Now You See Me' brings magicians to the summer movie season
Where did this movie 鈥淣ow You See Me鈥� come from?
By now, an inextricable part of the summer (yes, even early May counts as part of the summer movie season now) movie hoopla is massive marketing campaigns. By the time I got to the theater to see 鈥淭he Avengers鈥� last summer, I felt like I鈥檇 heard half of Robert Downey Jr.鈥檚 snarky one-liners already in endless TV ads.聽
But this movie 鈥淣ow You See Me,鈥� starring actors such as Morgan Freeman, Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Woody Harrelson, Mark Ruffalo, and Michael Caine as, variously, a team of bank-robbing magicians and the authorities trying to discover their secrets, comes out May 31 and I recently found the trailer online having only vaguely heard of the movie. It may be that the 鈥淚ron Man 3鈥�/鈥滸reat Gatsby鈥�/鈥漇tar Trek鈥� noise was merely drowning it out, but this movie seems to have been a quiet summer release so far.
Which is a shame, because the trailer looks intriguing and the cast is top-notch. It鈥檒l be Fisher鈥檚 second appearance in a summer movie after she played mistress Myrtle Wilson in director Baz Luhrmann鈥檚 鈥淕atsby,鈥� and Harrelson is coming off his well-reviewed turn in the first 鈥淗unger Games鈥� movie. Freeman just starred in Tom Cruise鈥檚 (tepidly received) sci-fi movie 鈥淥blivion.鈥�
As has been remarked by others, I kept being reminded of director Christopher Nolan鈥檚 magicians movie 鈥淭he Prestige鈥� when watching the trailer for 鈥淣ow,鈥� what with Michael Caine starring in both movies and a sequence in the 鈥淣ow鈥� trailer when a woman gets trapped in a water tank, which also occurs in 鈥淧restige.鈥� But considering 鈥淧restige鈥� was the last big magicians movie, that鈥檚 probably inevitable. And there are worse comparisons 鈥� the meticulously plotted film starring 海角大神 Bale and Hugh Jackman was entertaining and contained a heck of a twist ending.
Check out the trailer for 鈥淣ow.鈥�
