Do you believe in magic? Surely he believes Ruben Fleischer, director to the best known for Zombieland that nine years after the previous film brings us The perfect illusion — Now you see me, now you don’t, third chapter of the magic-criminal saga of Now you see me. The film has arrived in Italian theatres since November 13th with 01 Distribution, already released on demand on Sky and NOW and Prime Video and is on Sky Cinema Uno at 21.15 Monday, March 2nd.
L’illusione perfetta: sfavillante magia criminale
Ten years have passed since the last trick of the Knights. Since then even a magic, an appearance, a sign of life. At least until L’Occhio, the secret society that uses magic to bring justice to the world, does not gather the team for a new, complex blow. In the eye viewer of the Eye this time is the Vanderberg family, which for generations has used the diamond trade to clean up the money of arms dealers, criminals and warlords. The mission will bring the seasoned (and discouraged) Knights to collaborate with a trio of young magicians in New York City, uncertain but talented and ready to do anything to do justice. The unexpected will not fail: on the other hand when we talk about magic, the fact that nothing is what appears is part of the rules of the game..
L’illusione perfetta: fanta-heist
I have to say, I’m a little tired with the movies of the Now You See Me series. Because on the one hand they are generally enjoyable, on the other they are in full crisis of identity: they would like to be heist movies, in the strict sense they are, but then they lose a little in the visual fascination for magic. In the sense: the heist, as a genre, is somewhat obsessed with the process, by the minuities of the plan that our protagonists are carrying out and by the thousand, tiny ways in which things can go well or badly. In this sense the “magical” framing tries to amaze the audience in an excessive way, distorting the tactile and intricate feeling of the kind in which it is positioned. In this case this third episode of the series manages to recover to the last, giving us an unexpected twist but that is not too free.
Troppi maghi e troppi cuochi
Material on which the film falls is the management of such a coral cast. The great classics of the genus (we think of the Ocean’s Eleven of Soderbergh) make themselves a magic trick: they enlighten us to have a very wide cast, when in reality the film is based on a handful of dynamics and main characters, which we see surrounded by a battery of stains and memorable comprimari that however in reality occupy very little space in terms of architecture of history. The perfect illusion has a cast too structured, too widened during the series, too infamous to star that it is difficult to reduce to a handful of jokes to succeed in such a make-up.
The result is a film devoid of focus and verve despite the succession of almost perfect setpieces. It is no coincidence that the far better character of the film is that Rosamund Pike who, besides being Rosamund Pike, is the only one who is allowed to examine and explore in solitude, with a minimum of space around.
Il cast
Jesse Eisenberg, as J. Daniel Atlas, a charismatic leader of the group of gentlemen and criminals. With him Woody Harrelson is the mentalist Merritt McKinney, Isla Fisher is the queen of the escape Henley Reeves and Dave Franco the master of cards Jack Wilder. Lizzy Caplan also returned as Lula May, ‘replaced’ by Henley in the second film, as well as Morgan Freeman in those of the Dean of the Eye Thaddeus Bradley. However, the cast is inspired by the new entries: Dominic Sessa interprets the charismatic imitator Bosco and Ariana Greenblatt the agile June, while Justice Smith is Charlie, who creates all the plans of the trio but remains behind the scenes. The very bad Veronica Vanderberg is played by the only and only Rosamund Pike.
L’illusione perfetta in streaming
The film is already available on Prime Video, Sky and NOW and is for rent and or buy on Rakuten TV, Apple TV Store, Timvision, Amazon Video.
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