Regie:
Louis LeterrierKamera:
Larry FongMusik:
Brian TylerBesetzung:
Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, Mélanie Laurent, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Michael Kelly, Common (mehr)Streaming (5)
Inhalte(1)
Die vier bislang mäßig erfolgreichen Illusionskünstler Atlas, Reeves, McKinney und Wilder folgen einer mysteriösen Einladung. Ein Jahr später verblüffen sie als 'Four Horsemen' mit einer fulminanten Show in Las Vegas. Ein Freiwilliger aus dem Publikum wird nach Paris teleportiert, um eine Bank auszurauben. Krönender Abschluss der Vorstellung ist ein Geldscheinregen über die Zuschauerränge. FBI-Agent Dylan Rhodes will mit Magier-Urgestein Tressler dem unfassbaren Team auf die Schliche kommen. Das Quartett plant nämlich bereits weitere noch sensationellere Raubzüge auf offener Bühne. (ORF)
(mehr)Kritiken (13)
I sat down and let the deception and magic take over and enjoyed it. I really did. It had momentum, it had interesting characters, and I was just waiting to see how it culminated. And it did, beautifully, leaving some viewers slightly dissatisfied. A nice film that managed to surprise me halfway through. I'm curious to see the sequel, hopefully it will be at least as entertaining as this film.
()
Ein überladener Klugscheißer-Film. Ich staune manchmal darüber, wie es die Drehbuchautoren schaffen, ihre eigene vielversprechende Idee kaputtzumachen. Besonders gelitten habe ich während der letzten halben Stunde. Die Unfassbaren - Now You See Me werde ich mir wahrscheinlich nie mehr anschauen. Dieser Film ist für mich hauptsächlich ein Puzzleteil von "Alles, wo Michael Caine erschienen ist“. Die anderen Schauspieler*innen (einschließlich Morgan Freeman) sind nicht der Rede wert. Zwei Sterne und noch ein Stück dazu – auch für die (schwungvolle, aber trotzdem völlig überflüssige) Actionszene.
()
Hochstapler versuchen, sich als schlauer und anspruchsvoller Kriminalthriller mit Illusionisten auszugeben, in Wirklichkeit handelt es sich jedoch um eine ziemlich dumme und undurchdachte Geschichte, voller Löcher, unwahrscheinlicher Wendungen und absurdem Unsinn. Der oberflächlich attraktive und maximal effektive Mantel in Form von schnellen Schnitten, poliertem visuellen Stil, vielen bekannten Schauspielern und pulsierender Musik soll den Zuschauer wahrscheinlich einlullen und davon abhalten, über die Handlung nachzudenken. Natürlich wäre es möglich, einen unterhaltsamen und qualitativen Film darüber zu machen, wie eine Gruppe exzentrischer Showmänner absurde Raubüberfälle begeht und diese als magische Bühnenauftritte tarnt. Aber dafür hätten die Hochstapler diese ernsthafte kriminelle Handlung mit einem Geheimdienstagenten einbeziehen müssen, der den Fall sachlich untersucht, und die Figur eines Zauberkunstexperten, der ihm versucht, diese bizarren Illusionen auf eine logische Weise zu erklären, obwohl das in der Realität völlig undurchführbar wäre. Die Atmosphäre der Zauberauftritte wird also durch den Film vollständig ruiniert, denn während Sie die Zauberer sicherlich für ihre geschickten Hände und theatralische Präzision bewundern können, haben die Hochstapler leider beides mit megalomanischen Computereffekten und Schnitten ersetzt. Das erzeugt sicherlich für einen kurzen Moment den gewünschten "Wow"-Effekt, aber die gesamte magische Stilmittel leidet darunter an Glaubwürdigkeit.
()
Es ist amüsant und witzig, aber irgendwie durchschnittlich und vielleicht etwas zu lang und voller ständiger Wendungen und Tricks, doch die abschließende Pointe ist für mich so hervorragend, dass ich die Bewertung um ein Sternchen anhebe. Und Frankophile und Parisophile muss natürlich zum Millionsten Mal der Blickt auf die Pont des Arts und die lächelnde Mélanie erfreuen.
()
A heist movie from which someone stole the logic. The quintet (!) of screenwriters tried to outsmart viewers, but the gentlemen wound up outsmarting themselves. The necessary extent of viewers’ incredulity that better films about scams consciously work with has been exceeded many times over in Now You See Me. Not even the illusionists can be believed, as they act in conflict with the initial presentation of their characters after a jump in time (we don’t learn much more about them during the rest of the film), nor can their tricks, because they are mostly conjured up with CGI, which breaks the bond between their feats and reality. The magic shows are basically just an excuse for drawn-out and poorly edited action scenes. The weak final justification for the meaning of each of the performances is just another of the countless attempts at misdirection, specifically the effort to evoke the impression that each of the shows was something more than an autonomous attraction. Perhaps this is part of a well-thought-out whole governed by rules that don’t change on the fly and whose individual parts are not connected using a confounding number of coincidences and assumptions that a particular person will only react to a particular situation in one particular way and not another. The final twist robs the film of any remaining shreds of logical coherence. No, I didn’t seriously expect such an ending, because it lacked any logic in relation to the preceding 100 minutes. Instead of the feeling that I had been cleverly outsmarted (the wow effect), there was bitter laughter at someone’s ability to sacrifice all of the story’s believability and meaningfulness to the God of Surprise (the WTF effect). Every narrative device serves to deceive viewers to such an extent that we are constantly aware of the film’s falsity, so its conjuring tricks just don’t work. The Prestige was based on a quite similar principle (we will reveal the rules of the game to you and then we will outfox you anyway), but in that film, the trick was underpinned by the preceding two hours of action. In Nolan’s film, the twist wasn’t conjured up out of screenwriting cluelessness just before the end only so that film could somehow be concluded. In Now You See Me, it is – starting with the way it’s stated in the film’s title – too obvious that we are the intended marks. Something like that might work in Copperfield’s live show, but in a live-action feature film, it ultimately causes the film to retroactively lose meaning because it comes off as just an illusion. The actors also do a utilitarian job. Most of them were cast solely to raise the film’s level of prestige and to serve the same decorative and distracting purpose that one of the characters attributes to a magician’s attractive assistant. Louis Leterrier himself is just such an assistant, but he’s an assistant without a magician. He diligently diverts our attention so that in the end he can artlessly concede in the end that the main content of his performance was the actual act of distracting us. Appendix: The most ridiculous thing is the attempt to shoehorn criticism of unjust social conditions (an apparent echo of Occupy Wall Street) into Now You See Me, a film that defends scam artists and punishes those who bring attention to the scam. 40%
()
(weniger)
(mehr)
Now You See Me, or how to use a barrage of shiny gimmicks to hide the fact that the motivations of the characters don’t make sense, both in individual scenes and as a whole. A perfect representative of dull pop-corn mainstream and an outrageously wasted cast.
()
A very complicated, but at the same time quite imaginative story. And the actors are the icing on the cake. They exuded that kind of a magician’s arrogance and cunning with which their idea grew and fell. But I must say that it wasn’t because of all this that I gave this movie four stars. If that was all the movie had, I would have settled on two. I was totally confused by the story. I, however, enjoyed the way this film was made. The director clearly put a lot of effort into this, to show this project was a dream come true for him. But the best and most beautiful thing about this movie was Mélanie Laurent. I could watch her all day. And if the magicians had chosen her for the disappearing act, I would’ve written an indignant letter all the way to Hollywood, demanding an explanation. Fortunately, she showed all of her French elegance and grace to my complete satisfaction. It’s evident that the director, who is also French, is aware of Melánie’s charm. So even though the movie has its flaws, it also deserves praise. As a result, I was satisfied and now I’m looking forward to a sequel.
()
Such a fast, dynamic, and perfectly deafening ride that I had to struggle to pull out grains of detachment and keep from giving it the highest possible rating. This gang firmly counts on the fact that the audience is willingly letting themselves be led astray, only to later admire the resulting denouement with nothing short of awe. And because Louis Leterrier is a damn skillful puppeteer, I won't let my minor criticisms about the reveal and the slower pace of the second half sound too loudly.
()
..., Now You Don't. Entertainment that doesn’t offend your brain that is a huge advertisement for illusionists. One big advantage is that the gradation of the screenplay copies the gradation of the tricks in the movie and follows the rules of magic divulged in advance. Magic has always kept up with trends and, because we are a greedy generation interested only in having fun, our four (five) horsemen go at it cleverly and steal and then hand out money. A very pleasant cast, all of them with a good part to play and they enjoy the “moment", supplemented by the two old men, Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine, who gratefully accepted their roles of the biggest assholes of the entire charade. Leterrier is on top of kinetics, so all of the tricks are extremely dynamic and easy to see (during the performance), + not forgetting his favorite car chases. A seriously well-done popcorn movie with a twist that even I was surprised about.
()
Compared to The Prestige, it looks like an opening act created by art school students, and I don’t consider Nolan’s highly-praised opus to be great. Unfortunately, Now You See Me plods along from the very first moment, and while there are a bunch of good actors and they're well cast, it's a typical consumer Hollywood commercial from start to finish without a shred of invention. And when, in the course of the film, you discover that there's going to be some devilish subterfuge and the magic tricks are not solved by wit and ingenuity, but by visual effects, something is wrong. So average for the entertaining ensemble of stars and its brisk pace.
()
I don't want to slag Now You See Me because Leterrier mixed what he could in his pursuit of style and often slipped into unintentional self-parody in his visual realm, but unfortunately it's unavoidable. The magic tricks look nice, the sonorous names sound beautiful and the story built on ten twists and turns in the last ten minutes is a delight here and there, but the tricks can always be explained rationally, the actors have nothing to play with in many cases and the final twist is so contrived and flashy that it hurt my eyes. Besides, how am I supposed to keep my fingers crossed for the fictional thieves when the pair of detectives chasing them are far more likeable? This is not new Ocean’s Eleven, not even by chance. 50%
()
"The Con Artists" had the potential to become a truly fantastic film. When it came to the actual magic tricks, it was something that I wanted to see from magicians and, of course, something more. However, as the ending approached and the explanations began, the viewer started to feel that something was rotten beneath the surface. With the conclusion, it all came to light like a startled fish. The film, which had been pretending to be a clever film about magicians, eventually turned into a brutally butchered trick with an ending that simply had to disappoint. There is nothing clever about it anymore; it's all very cheap and simple. It's a shame, a terrible shame, because the journey towards it was good. Sometimes the journey is not enough; sometimes the goal is truly essential. It was here. More: http://www.filmovy-denik.cz/2013/07/podfukari-2013-55.html
()
Shame, a huge shame. With a slightly bigger budget, a slightly better screenplay and especially without an ending “just for effect”, this could have been the most awesome movie of the year. I can't help it, even though it felt a bit cheap, it was quite watchable and every effect was perfection. PS: Jesse Eisenberg is one of the most talented young actors and a future big star, his performance here is a level (maybe even two) above everyone else.
()
Werbung