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| NOW YOU SEE ME |
It was released on May 31, 2013. Despite the mixed reviews from critics, the film has proved to be a box office success, and a sequel has been officially confirmed.
Plot
Four gifted street magicians—J. Daniel Atlas, Henley Reeves, Jack
Wilder, and Merritt McKinney—are brought together by an unknown
benefactor and, one year later, perform in Las Vegas as "The Four
Horsemen", sponsored by insurance magnate Arthur Tressler. For the
finale, a member of the audience is invited to help them in their next
trick: robbing a bank. That audience member is Étienne Forcier, an
account holder at the Crédit Républicain de Paris. Forcier is apparently
teleported to his bank in Paris, where he activates an air-duct that vacuums up the money and showers it onto the crowd in Las Vegas.
Upon discovering that the money really is missing from the bank vault, FBI agent Dylan Rhodes is called to investigate the theft and is partnered with Interpol
agent Alma Dray. They interrogate the Four Horsemen but release them
when no explanation can be found. Dylan meets Thaddeus Bradley, an
ex-magician making money by revealing the secrets behind other
magicians' tricks. Thaddeus was in the audience and deduced that the
Horsemen stole the money weeks before and manipulated the audience's
perception of current events.
Dylan, Dray, and Thaddeus attend the Four Horsemen's next performance
in New Orleans. The group's finale involves them stealing roughly $140
million from Tressler's bank account and distributing it to the
audience, composed of people whose insurance claims had been denied or
reduced by Tressler's company. Dylan attempts to arrest the Four
Horsemen, but they escape with help from hypnotised audience members. An
infuriated Tressler hires Thaddeus to expose and humiliate the Horsemen
in their next performance. Later, while researching the Four Horsemen's
background, Dray learns about rumors of a secret society of magicians
called "The Eye", who steal from the rich and powerful to give to the
needy, and suggests to a skeptical Dylan the case might be tied to a
magician named Lionel Shrike, whom Thaddeus had exposed 30 years earlier
and who was so embarrassed that he undertook a dangerous underwater
stunt involving a safe, and accidentally drowned.
The Horsemen are located in New York, but they escape during the raid
to arrest them; however, Jack is killed when he crashes a stolen car
and it bursts into flames and explodes. The remaining Horsemen vow to
continue and complete their final performance, stealing a safe made by
the same company that made the safe Lionel Shrike died in. They perform
their one last show at 5 Pointz
during which they seemingly vanish into thin air, transforming into
loads of money that is showered on the crowd. The money turns out to be
fake and the real money is found stashed in Thaddeus's Range Rover.
Thaddeus is then assumed to be the fifth Horseman and is arrested,
although he claims that he was framed.
Dylan visits Thaddeus in his cell, where Thaddeus explains that the
only way the safe could have been removed was if Jack was still alive,
but they would have also needed an inside man. Thaddeus realizes that
Dylan is the fifth Horseman when Dylan disappears from the locked cell
and reappears outside it. Dylan tells Thaddeus he wants him to spend the
rest of his life in jail and leaves as Thaddeus asks why he did it. The
Horsemen are now rejoined by Jack, whose death had been staged. They
finally meet their benefactor and are surprised to find it is Dylan. He
welcomes them into "The Eye."
Later, on the Pont des Arts
in France, Dray is met by Dylan who reveals himself to be the son of
Lionel Shrike, the magician who drowned years ago. He masterminded and
designed the Horsemen plot to obtain revenge on those involved:
Thaddeus, for humiliating his father; the Crédit Républicain de Paris
and Tressler's company, who refused to pay the insurance on his father's
death; and the company that produced the substandard safe used in the
trick that led to its failure. Dray, however, decides not to turn him
in. Dray takes a lock and a key that Dylan magically produces as he
proclaims "One more secret to lock away". After Dray locks the lock on a
chain fence with all of the locks that have been locked there over the
years, she throws the key into the Seine.
Cast
- Jesse Eisenberg as J. Daniel Atlas (The Lovers), an illusionist and the publicly perceived ringleader of the Four Horsemen.
- Mark Ruffalo as Dylan Rhodes, an FBI agent called to investigate the bank theft.
- Woody Harrelson as Merritt McKinley (The Hermit), a mentalist.
- Isla Fisher as Henley Reeves (The High Priestess), an escapist.
- Dave Franco as Jack Wilder (Death), a sleight of hand illusionist.
- Mélanie Laurent as Alma Dray, an Interpol agent who is partnered up with Dylan Rhodes to investigate the bank theft.
- Morgan Freeman as Thaddeus Bradley, an ex-magician who makes money by revealing the secrets behind other magicians' tricks.
- Michael Caine as Arthur Tressler, an insurance magnate and the Four Horsemen's sponsor.
- Michael Kelly as Agent Fuller, an FBI agent and Rhodes's sidekick.
- Common as Agent Evans, Rhodes's supervisor at the FBI.
- José Garcia as Étienne Forcier, the account holder at the Credit Republicain de Paris.
- Elias Koteas (uncredited) as Lionel Shrike, a magician who died of drowning while performing a trick.
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