The Hendersonville Film Society will show Now You See Me on Sunday, Sept. 24, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community, 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.
Now You See Me
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In Brief: Louis Leterrier's 2013 Now You See Me basically has all of the elements that I hate in a film — it's an exercise in style over substance with effectively no attention payed to character or story, the cinematic equivalent of a cheap off-Strip Vegas floorshow. Which is why I'm surprised that I don't hate it, at least not completely. Despite my distaste for both Jesse Eisenberg and the lesser Franco brother, they're both pretty unobjectionable here. Woody Harrelson and Mark Ruffalo do what they can with what they're given, and at least director Leterrier isn't in full-on Transporter mode. It's 90 minutes of mindless fun that works more often than it doesn't, as long as you don't think about it too deeply (or at all). But come on — it's a flashy heist movie about stage magicians. You don't need me to tell you if you want to see it or not.
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| Genre: | Heist Adventure |
| Director: | Louis Leterrier |
| Starring: | Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Morgan Freeman, Woody Harrelson, Mélanie Laurent |
| Rated: | PG-13 |
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