adminFilm: Now You See Me
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Melanie Laurenty, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman.
Director: Leterrier, Louis
Cinema: Eastgate
Running time: 119 minutes
Type of film: Fraud on a City-wide Scale
Age restriction: 16
Prof Joel White
At the Movies
THE film “Now You See Me” brilliantly demonstrates the ease with which the public can be manipulated and brilliantly separated from their good sense and their money.
Set in New York City, my home town, moving back and forth to and from Paris, three conmen and their beautiful fourth (Melanie Laurently), gull the public into making them millionaires.
Sparing no details, this exceedingly expensive movie pulls out all the stops in cinematic value to put to the viewer the question: Do You See How We
Do It?
The film opens with the leisurely introduction to four separate, penny-pinching cheats conning their fellow New Yorkers out of their small time pocket money.
Fate brings them together and the meeting of the four minds leads to brilliant civic manipulation and the sums soaring into the millions.
Siphoned
Mark Ruffalo, as the FBI’s Agent Rose, is put in the position of having to protect the millions of dollars of the mogul tycoon Arthur Tressle (London-born, 80-year old Michael Caine), as these funds are being mysteriously siphoned off in an inextricably efficient manner.
An exceedingly expensive film in the making, seemingly no expense is spared to make clear how the manipulative skills of these rascals are effectively draining money out of the very pockets of the public.
Both in Paris and New York, the beautiful actress Isla Fisher is added to the totally befuddled FBI agents in their attempt to stop the flow of cash disappearing from the bank accounts of the multi-millionaires targeted by our band of international brigands.
Manipulation
Morgan Freeman, Tennessee-born and now a lordly 76 years of age, is presented to us as a very senior member of that squadron of New Yorkers who are graduates in the field of separating the public from its money.
Making occasional suggestions, he stand on the sidelines and observes the skilful manipulations of these three men and their girl, occasionally adding his opinion on “how they might have done it better.”
Its entertainment value makes this film one of the must see of the year.
Online Reporter