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EVROPSKI UNIVERZITET BRČKO

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NOW YOU SEE ME

(MOVIE REVIEW)

 Movie name: Now You See Me

 Premiere: New York City, May 21, 2013
 Official release: May 31, 2013.
 Director: Louis Leterrier
 Writers: Ed Solomon and Boaz Yakin
 Main actors: Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Isla
Fisher, Dave Franco, Melanie Laurent, Michael Caine and Morgan
Freeman
 Genre: Crime, mystery, thriller.

Now You See Me is a 2013 American heist thriller film directed by Louis

Leterrier and written by Ed Solomon, Boaz Yakin, and Edward Ricourt. The
film features an ensemble cast of Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody
Harrelson, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, Mélanie Laurent, Michael Caine,
and Morgan Freeman. The plot follows an FBI agent and
an Interpol detective who track a team of magicians who pull off bank
heists and robberies during their performances and reward their audiences
with the money, attempting to bring them to justice. This is the first
installment of a series.
The film premiered in New York City on May 21, 2013 before its official
release in the United States on May 31, 2013 by Summit Entertainment.
The film received mixed reviews from critics but became a box office
success, grossing $351.7 million worldwide against a budget of $75
million. The film won the Favorite Thriller Movie at the People's Choice
Awards in 2014 and also received nominations for the Empire Award for
Best Thriller and the Saturn Award for Best Thriller Film and Best Music.
A sequel was released on June 10, 2016.

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DIRECTOR: Louis Leterrier (life and career)

Leterrier was born in Paris, the son of director François Leterrier and costume

designer Catherine Leterrier (née Fabius). He is the nephew of politician Laurent
Fabius and antiquarian François Fabius. He was guided artistically by his
mother. Leterrier was at first a drummer for a music group before experimenting
with short films. At the age of 18, after some training in advertising and publicity,
he left France to study cinema at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York
University.
In 1997, he assisted Jean-Pierre Jeunet on the set of Alien Resurrection. On
returning to France, he worked with Luc Besson on the production of
commercials for Club Internet and L'Oréal as well as on the film Joan of Arc. He
also collaborated, as the second assistant director, with Alain Chabat on the
production of Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre (2002).
Later in 2002, Louis Leterrier directed The Transporter, an action movie
starring Jason Statham. Although the US release lists him as artistic director
and Corey Yuen as director, the opening credits of the European release grant
him directorial credit and list Yuen as action director. Leterrier later entered the
so-called "Besson stable" – a group of directors working on films produced by or
associated with Luc Besson – alongside Chris Nahon and Pierre Morel. He
directed Jet Li in Unleashed, his solo debut feature, a full-length martial arts film
(2004). Luc Besson then entrusted him with directorial control of Transporter 2,
set this time in Miami.
In 2008, as part of a wave of French directors employed in Hollywood, he
directed his first big-budget American film, The Incredible Hulk. His next project,
a remake of the 1981 Clash of the Titans produced by Warner Bros., was
released on April 2, 2010. Leterrier had mentioned that he would like to create
a Clash of the Titans franchise, should the latest film prove to be
successful. However, in June 2010, Jonathan Liebesman was named as director
of the sequel, leaving Leterrier's involvement in future films in doubt.
Leterrier directed the spy comedy film Grimsby (2016), written by, and
starring, Sacha Baron Cohen. In March 2015, Deadline Hollywood reported that
Leterrier was in talks to direct the shark thriller film In the Deep, for Sony
Pictures Entertainment. However, on June 3, 2015, TheWrap reported that
Leterrier had exited the film due to creative differences and the reduction of the
previously told budget.
In 2019, Leterrier directed the first season of The Dark Crystal: Age of
Resistance for Netflix, a prequel series to The Dark Crystal consisting of ten
hour-long episodes, consisting entirely of puppetry and special effects.

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MAIN ACTORS:
 Jesse Eisenberg as J. Daniel Atlas

Jesse Adam Eisenberg (born October 5, 1983) is an American actor,

author, and playwright. He made his television debut with the short-
lived comedy-drama series Get Real (1999–2000). Following his first
leading role in the comedy-drama film Roger Dodger (2002), he appeared
in the drama film The Emperor's Club (2002), the psychological
thriller film The Village (2004), the comedy-drama film The Squid and the
Whale (2005), and the drama film The Education of Charlie Banks (2007).
He is also known for playing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in David
Fincher's The Social Network (2010).
In 2009, Eisenberg had his breakthrough with starring roles in the comedy-
drama film Adventureland and the horror comedy Zombieland. His
portrayal of Zuckerberg in The Social Network earned him nominations for
various awards, including the BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Academy
Award for Best Actor. He also starred in Holy Rollers (2010), which was
nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
Eisenberg later voiced the main character, Blu, a male Spix's macaw, in
the animated films Rio (2011) and Rio 2 (2014). His other films include the
action-comedy film 30 Minutes or Less (2011), the action-comedy
film American Ultra (2015), the Woody Allen films To Rome with
Love (2012) and Café Society (2016), and the heist film Now You See
Me (2013) and its sequel Now You See Me 2 (2016). In 2016, Eisenberg
portrayed Lex Luthor in the superhero film Batman v Superman: Dawn of
Justice and briefly reprised the role in 2017's Justice League.
Eisenberg has contributed pieces to The New
Yorker and McSweeney's websites. He has written and starred in three
plays for the New York stage: Asuncion, The Revisionist, and The Spoils.
Eisenberg's first book, Bream Gives Me Hiccups: and Other Stories, a
short story collection, was released in September 2015.

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 Mark Ruffalo as Dylan Rhodes

Mark Ruffalo (born November 22, 1967) is an American actor and

producer. He began acting in the early 1990s and first gained recognition
for his work in Kenneth Lonergan's play This Is Our Youth (1998) and
drama film You Can Count On Me (2000). He went on to star in the
romantic comedies 13 Going on 30 (2004) and Just like Heaven (2005)
and the thrillers Zodiac (2007) and Shutter Island (2010). He gained wider
recognition for his role as Bruce Banner / Hulk in the Marvel Cinematic
Universe superhero films The Avengers (2012), Avengers: Age of
Ultron (2015), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018),
and Avengers: Endgame (2019).
Ruffalo gained nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actor for playing a sperm donor in the comedy-drama The Kids Are All
Right (2010), Dave Schultz in the biopic Foxcatcher (2014), and Michael
Rezendes in the drama Spotlight (2015). He also won the Screen Actors
Guild Award for Best Actor in a TV Movie for playing a gay writer in the
television drama film The Normal Heart (2015).

 Woody Harrelson as Merritt McKinney

Woodrow Tracy Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) is an
American actor and playwright. He first became known for his role as
bartender Woody Boyd on the NBC sitcom Cheers (1985–1993), for
which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting
Actor in a Comedy Series from a total of five nominations. He has also
received three Academy Award nominations: Best Actor for The People
vs. Larry Flynt (1996) and Best Supporting Actor for The
Messenger (2009), and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing,
Missouri (2017).

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 Isla Fisher as Henley Reeves

Isla Lang Fisher (born 3 February 1976) is an Australian actress and

author, who began her career on Australian television. Born
to Scottish parents in Oman, she moved to Australia at age six. After
appearing in television commercials at a young age, Fisher came to
prominence for her portrayal of Shannon Reed on the soap opera Home
and Away from 1994 to 1997, garnering two Logie Award nominations.
Fisher made a successful transition to Hollywood in the live-action film
adaptation of Scooby-Doo (2002), and has since achieved fame for her
roles in Wedding Crashers (2005), Hot Rod (2007), Confessions of a
Shopaholic (2009), The Great Gatsby (2013), and Now You See
Me (2013). Her other notable film credits include I Heart
Huckabees (2004), The Lookout (2007), Definitely, Maybe (2008), Burke &
Hare (2010), Bachelorette (2012), Visions (2015), Grimsby, Nocturnal
Animals, Keeping Up with the Joneses (all 2016), and Tag (2018). In
addition, she has voiced characters in animated films such as Horton
Hears a Who! (2008), Rango (2011), and Rise of the Guardians (2012). On
television, she played a recurring role on the fourth and fifth seasons
of Arrested Development (2013, 2018).
Fisher has authored two young adult novels and the Marge in Charge book
series.

 Dave Franco as Jack Wilder

David John Franco (born June 12, 1985) is an American actor. He began

his career with small roles in films such as Superbad (2007) and Charlie
St. Cloud (2010). Following a starring role in the ninth season of the
comedy series Scrubs, Franco had his film breakthrough as a supporting
role in the buddy comedy film 21 Jump Street (2012).
Franco has had starring roles in the films Fright Night (2011), Now You
See Me (2013) and its sequel Now You See Me 2 (2016), Warm
Bodies (2013), Neighbors (2014) and its sequel Neighbors 2: Sorority
Rising (2016), Nerve (2016), The Little Hours (2017), The Disaster

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Artist (2017), The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017), and If Beale Street Could

Talk (2018).

 Melanie Laurent as Alma Dray

Mélanie Laurent (born 21 February 1983) is a French actress, singer,

pianist, screenwriter and director. The recipient of two César Awards,
an Étoiles d'or du cinéma français, and a Lumières Award, Mélanie
Laurent has established herself as an accomplished actress in the French
film industry.
Born in Paris to a Jewish family, Laurent was introduced to acting at the
age of sixteen by Gérard Depardieu, who cast her in a minor role in the
romantic drama The Bridge (1999). She gained wider recognition for her
supporting work in several French films, most notably the 2006
comedy Dikkenek, for which she won Étoiles d'Or for Best Female
Newcomer. Her breakthrough role came in the 2006 drama film Don't
Worry, I'm Fine, for which she later won the César Award for Most
Promising Actress and the Prix Romy Schneider. Laurent made her
Hollywood debut in 2009 with the starring role as Shosanna Dreyfus
in Quentin Tarantino's blockbuster war film Inglourious Basterds. Her
performance won the Online Film Critics Society and the Austin Film
Critics Association Best Actress Awards.
While she has worked mainly in independent films, including Paris (2008)
and Enemy (2013), Laurent also appeared in commercially successful
Hollywood films, including the comedy drama Beginners (2011), and the
caper film Now You See Me (2013), the former earning her a nomination at
the San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Laurent's other notable works include the art-house drama The Round
Up (2010), the comedy drama Et soudain, tout le monde me
manque (2011), and the mystery thriller Night Train to Lisbon (2013). She
is also known for voicing Mary Katherine and Disgust in the French dubs
of Epic (2013) and Inside Out (2015) respectively. Additionally, she starred
in Chris Weitz's 2018 drama Operation Finale with Oscar Isaac and Ben
Kingsley, telling the story of the capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann.
In addition to her film career, Laurent has appeared in stage productions in
France. She made her theater debut in 2010 in Nicolas
Bedos's Promenade de santé. The short film De moins en moins (2008)
marked her debut as a filmmaker. Her feature film directorial debut is The

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Adopted (2011). Respire (2014), her second production as a director, was

screened at the International Critics' Week section at the 2014 Cannes
Film Festival. She made her singing debut with a studio album En
t'attendant in May 2011; the album contains twelve songs, five of which are
co-written and co-produced by Irish folk musician Damien Rice.

 Michael Caine as Arthur Tressler

Sir Michael Caine, CBE (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr., 14 March

1933) is an English actor, producer and author. He has appeared in more
than 130 films in a career spanning over 60 years and is considered
a British film icon. Known for his cockney accent, Caine was born in South
London.
He made his breakthrough in the 1960s with starring roles in British films,
including Zulu (1964), The Ipcress File (1965), Alfie (1966), for which he
was nominated for an Academy Award, The Italian Job (1969), and Battle
of Britain (1969). His roles in the 1970s included Get
Carter (1971), The Last Valley (1971), Sleuth (1972), for which he earned
his second Academy Award nomination, The Man Who Would Be
King (1975), and A Bridge Too Far (1977). He achieved some of his
greatest critical success in the 1980s, with Educating Rita (1983), earning
him the BAFTA and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. In 1986, he
received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance
in Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters.
Caine played Ebenezer Scrooge in The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992).
This was his first starring role in several years, which led to a career
resurgence in the late 1990s, receiving his second Golden Globe Award
for his performance in Little Voice in 1998, and receiving his second
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Cider House Rules, the
following year. Caine played Nigel Powers in the 2002 parody Austin
Powers in Goldmember, and Alfred Pennyworth in Christopher
Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy. He appeared in several other of Nolan's
films, including The Prestige (2006), Inception (2010),
and Interstellar (2014). He also appeared in Alfonso Cuarón's Children of
Men and Matthew Vaughn's action comedy film Kingsman: The Secret
Service. As of February 2017, films which he has starred in have grossed
over $3.5 billion domestically, and over $7.8 billion worldwide. Caine is
ranked as the twentieth-highest-grossing box office star.

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 Morgan Freeman as Thaddeus Bradley

Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor and film

narrator. Freeman won an Academy Award in 2005 for Best Supporting
Actor with Million Dollar Baby (2004), and he has
received Oscar nominations for his performances in Street
Smart (1987), Driving Miss Daisy (1989), The Shawshank
Redemption (1994), and Invictus (2009). He has also won a Golden Globe
Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Freeman has appeared in many other box office hits,
including Glory (1989), Robin Hood: Prince of
Thieves (1991), Seven (1995), Deep Impact (1998), The Sum of All
Fears (2002), Bruce Almighty (2003), The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–
2012), Wanted (2008), Red (2010), Now You See Me (2013), The Lego
Movie (2014), and Lucy (2014). He rose to fame as part of the cast of the
1970s children's program The Electric Company. Noted for his deep
voice, Freeman has served as a narrator, commentator, and voice actor for
numerous programs, series and television shows. He is ranked as the
seventh-highest box office star since July 2019. He has a combined total
box office gross of $4.57 billion, with an average of $71.5 million per film.

-This crew of actors, made the movie “Now You See Me” to look
just the way it is, very good. All of these actors behind
themselves have a big and rich carrier and experience. And they
had proven in both this and other movies too. Also it is important
to mention that the director of the movie Louis Leterrier did realy
great job.

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Plot:
Stage magician J. Daniel Atlas finds a card in his shoe which leads him to a
mysterious building. Daniel's former assistant Henley Reeves, master hypnotist
Merritt McKinney, and local magician Jack Wilder are also given cards leading to
the building. There, the four discover a set of blueprints and a list of instructions
by their unknown benefactor.

A year later, the four have their first major performance as the Four Horsemen in
an elaborate Las Vegas show funded by insurance magnate Arthur Tressler.
Their final trick appears to transport one of the audience members to the vault of
his bank, the Crédit Républicain in Paris, where stacks of new euro bills are
stored. At the magicians' command, the fans in the vault activate, drawing the
bills into the vents and then showering the Las Vegas crowd with them. The
euros are shown to be real, and the vault in Paris is found to be empty of its
recent shipment of euros. FBI agent Dylan Rhodes, and Interpol agent Alma
Dray, are then partnered to investigate the Horsemen. The two question the
magicians but have no evidence to hold them. Dylan and Alma turn to Thaddeus
Bradley, a former magician and now a popular video host who makes millions of
dollars exposing the tricks behind magic acts. Thaddeus demonstrates how the
Horsemen used a mock vault under the Las Vegas stage, and explains that the
group must have stolen the money in Paris before it arrived at the bank, and
replaced it with flash paper which ignited but left no residue as evidence.

Dylan, Alma, and Thaddeus follow the Horsemen to their next show in New
Orleans. There, their final trick appears to transfer over 140 million dollars from
Tressler's private accounts to those in the audience, made up of people that
were denied insurance claims by Tressler's company in the wake of Hurricane
Katrina. Dylan and Alma attempt to apprehend the four, but the magicians elude
arrest. Tressler hires Thaddeus to expose the Horsemen in revenge for the loss
of his money. Alma investigates the Horsemen and determines they are
connected to a group called the Eye, a small group of magicians that claim to
have access to real magic and only accept the best of the best magicians, who
have to be invited and pass tests. She finds out that one of the Eye's members,
Lionel Shrike, had previously been exposed by Thaddeus, but died in a locked-

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safe escape trick he was performing in an attempt to regain his standing. Alma
suspects a fifth person is aiding the Horsemen.

Dylan discovers his cellphone has been stolen and bugged by the Horsemen,
allowing them to access the FBI servers and remain ahead of the investigation.
Tracking the real phone leads the FBI to a New York City apartment. When they
raid it, three of the Horsemen escape while Jack recovers numerous documents
and then leads the authorities on a high-speed car chase. Jack loses control of
his car, causing it to flip and catch fire. Dylan is unable to save Jack, but
manages to recover the papers, pointing to the Horsemen's next planned crime,
stealing millions of dollars in cash out of a large safe of the Elkhorn company. By
the time Dylan, Alma, and Thaddeus find the safe, it had just been stolen and
loaded into a truck. They quickly apprehend the truck, arrange for it to be
delivered to its arranged destination, and Dylan hides inside. But when it arrives
and is opened by Bradley and his assistant, it contains nothing but balloon
animals, revealing it to be a decoy.

The Horsemen broadcast that they will perform their final show that night at 5
Pointz, inviting the public to attend. The FBI and police converge on the scene
and amid the chaos search for the Horsemen. The remaining Horsemen appear
to the crowd, giving their fans a farewell and a message about an ulterior
purpose, and then run to jump off a roof; Dylan attempts to shoot them but Alma
pushes his arm so he misses. The three Horseman jump, turning into a shower
of money over the crowd. The money is counterfeit, but the audience's race to
collect it prevents the authorities from tracking the real Horsemen.
After the show, Thaddeus walks to his car, only to find it full of the money stolen
from the real Elkhorn safe, which is later revealed to have never been stolen
from the company but was really hidden behind a giant mirror to make it look like
it was gone. Assumed to be the fifth Horseman, he is arrested. Dylan speaks to
Thaddeus in jail, where Thaddeus slowly comes to realize that Alma's theory
was correct, and Dylan was the fifth Horseman. Dylan quietly walks away,
leaving Thaddeus shouting "Why?" Elsewhere, the Horsemen (including Jack,
who had faked his death using a cadaver and a duplicate car) meet at the
carousel in Central Park, and use their tarot cards to turn it on. Dylan arrives and
welcomes the four to the Eye.

Later, at the Pont des Arts, Dylan meets with Alma and reveals that he is
Shrike's son. He brought the Horsemen together to get retribution for his father's
death: the Elkhorn Safe Company for providing a faulty safe that led to the
accident; Thaddeus, for humiliating and impoverishing his father and forcing him
to try the new trick to regain his standing; and the Crédit Républicain and
Tressler's insurance companies for failing to pay out on Shrike's life insurance.
Alma, who has come into a romantic relationship with Dylan, easily decides not
to turn him in. She takes a lock and a key that Dylan produces, attaches the lock
among the other love locks on the railing, and throws the key into the Seine.

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In a post-credits scene, the Horsemen, driving through a desert, approach a

junkyard full of old magician memorabilia, before getting out of their car and
slowly beginning to examine the area before coming upon a set of locked crates
covered in the symbol of The Eye, but without their playing cards to open them.

My opinion about the movie:

When we talk about the film industry, we need to mention that it is an

industry in which large amounts of money are circulating. A lot of money
was spent on the movie "Now you see me". It was a big risk, but in the end
it paid off because the movie made a lot more than it was invested in it.
When it comes to plot of the movie, it's important to note that the movie is
very interesting and fun. Probably because the movie also reveals a
couple of serious magic tricks. The Riders, as they are called in the movie,
seem as they are created for the roles they play. We can also see in the
film that the Riders strive for "justice", that is, they take money from the
rich and give it to the poor, so we notice that it also strives for human
equality in the movie. Also at the beginning of the movie, we can see
Daniel Atlas bribing a doorman into a building in order to do his trick
effectively, That scene, like most of the other scenes in the movie, tells us
that it is not quite how it looks and that, in most cases, there is a simple
explanation. If we watch the movie two or more times, we will notice that it
emphasizes not thinking inside the box, but expanding our thinking beyond
the box. It was only when they did that, that the detectives were able to
track the Riders. To find out what happened in the end, check out the
movie and get some lessons from it. The numerous awards it has won tell
us that this movie is really great.

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