#Four horsemen movie magic movie#
The movie skirts the line between actual illusion and 'real' magic but is a fun and flashy ride through Vegas grand illusion shows.
Daniel Radcliffe’s bad guy gets a memorable intro, suggesting plenty of quirk and character, then becomes a rather dull villain-by-numbers. Four magicians are brought together to perform as 'The Four Horsemen,' where they pull off large heists during their shows and then shower the audience with the money. Interesting ideas are introduced, then dropped. The movie is so strangled by an incredibly convoluted plot, including a spectacularly silly retcon, that the easy repartee of the Horsemen from the original is never recaptured. Leterrier is nobody’s idea of a master of magic, but next to Chu, he’s Penn & Teller. Chu, is tepid, even managing to make a lengthy detour in the colourful city of Macau dull. The first movie, directed by Louis Leterrier, was fun and flashy. It seems a strange choice to shackle an actor as charismatic as Ruffalo. At one point, he’s even stranded in a strange sub-plot with Morgan Freeman’s Thaddeus Bradley, the man he blames for his dad’s watery demise.
And Rhodes… well, rather than indulging his very particular David Copperfield-y set of skills, he’s still hiding in plain sight among the FBI and brooding about the decades-old death of his dad. Isla Fisher’s Henley has left the group, to be replaced by fast-talking sleight of hand whizz Lula (Lizzy Caplan, aiming for kooky, and missing).
When we meet Rhodes and the Horsemen, 18 months have passed, and so little has happened that the group - Jesse Eisenberg’s illusionist Atlas, Woody Harrelson’s hypnotist Merrit and Dave Franco’s card shark Jack - are bored and at odds with each other. Four horsemen should start finding a way to distribute their items in Europe, because there is not only the american market.
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