115 min – Crime | Mystery | Thriller – 31 May 2013 (USA)
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10 from 98,573 users
Metascore: 50/100
Director: Louis Leterrier
Writers: Ed Solomon (screenplay), Boaz Yakin (screenplay)
Plot Summary
An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money.
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Cast
- Jesse Eisenberg – J. Daniell Atlas (The Lovers)
- Woody Harrelson – Merritt McKinney (The Hermit)
- Isla Fisher – Henley Reeves (The High Priestess)
- Dave Franco – Jack Wilder (Death)
- Mark Ruffalo – Dylan Rhodes
- Morgan Freeman – Thaddeus Bradley
- Michael Caine – Arthur Tressler
- Mélanie Laurent – Alma Dray
- Michael J. Kelly – Agent Fuller
- Common – Evans
- David Warshofsky – Cowan
- J. Larose – Willy Mears
- Conan O’Brien – himself
- Elias Koteas (uncredited) – Lionel Shrike
- José Garcia – Étienne Forcier
Storyline
Four magicians each answer a mysterious summons to an obscure address with secrets inside. A year later, they are the Four Horseman, big time stage illusionists who climax their sold out Las Vegas show with a bank apparently robbed for real. This puts agents Dylan Rhodes of the FBI and Alma Vargas of Interpol on the case to find out how they did it.
However, this mystery proves difficult to solve even with the insights of the professional illusion exposer, Thaddeus Bradley. What follows is a bizarre investigation where nothing is what it seems with illusions, dark secrets and hidden agendas galore as all involved are reminded of a great truth in this puzzle: the closer you look, the less you see.
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