Now You See Me

Sigh.  Note to anyone doing another movie about magic : start with a good trick, then build to something phenomenal to leave your audience clapping.  Don't start with your best trick, then hope your audience is wowed by a routine light show and blatant hologram stunt as a "finale".  (I could do a hologram stunt.  Especially since I'll be under no obligation to make it look like anything other than a hologram stunt.)  BUT this movie has bigger problems.  You know how in Sixth Sense, when you find out the twist, you look back over the film and think "Oh!  Of course!  How sly!"  Well, when Now You See Me explained how what happened happened, you just think "Well that doesn't make sense.  If that's the solution, this wouldn't have happened here, and he/she wouldn't have done that there."  The brilliance of unexpected solutions is when you look back on the story armed with explanation, the story makes just as much -- if not more -- sense.  Now You See Me thinks it can pull any explanation out of its butt, as if we just weren't watching at all.  Verdict: Movie Rental if You Must