The pace is very fast.
An hour ago, I was blind, and the amount of money involved in several magic shows was getting bigger and bigger, so I was even more worried that the pie stall would be too big and it would be difficult to draw a circle if there was not enough flour in the back. Although the fast-to-super-normal rhythm is dazzling, it contains the hidden worries of pretending to be compelling-while I watched it, I remembered that in "Big Winner" the sorrow and music were accelerated by 10 times and turned into festive gongs and drums-the fast pace is untrustworthy The reason is also: if you slow down to a normal speed, will everything become ordinary?
Sure enough, beginning in the second half, the cool high-IQ crimes slowly revealed the features of typical commercial films-hunting, speeding, big robbery... In the last half an hour, it is reasonable to say that the moment of "reversal" has indeed begun to reverse. , Ready to confess to the big boss behind the scenes-but after the confession, it is not far from the imagination, and it is a little far-fetched.
In general, at this time, the audience will re-run the plot from beginning to end in their minds. If there are not many flaws, the ones that are laid out in the front and the ones in the back are taken care of, even if it is qualified. On the contrary, you will be put into the ranks of bad movies, no matter how cool or cool you are.
Fortunately, after "Now You See Me", you can still pass the level. Just like "War of the Gods" by the same director, despite the overall praise and criticism, at least the section of Medusa is still very impressive.
To say the remarkable thing about "Magic Thieves", that is-there
are a lot of smoke bombs.
As early as the beginning of the movie, the narration reminded the audience over and over again: This plan cannot be understood by ordinary logic, and you must keep a distance to see it. If you are too close, you can't see it clearly... etc. The number of repetitions makes the audience (like me) feel a little uncomfortable to be treated as a fool. In the past few years, everyone has watched a lot of American dramas, and the accumulation of conspiracy theories is only a lot more. The best thing is to "see the essence through the phenomenon, and see the truth through the deception", OK?
However, think about it after reading it, reminding me over and over again is one of the scams in itself! In other words, letting the audience think they are smart enough to see through the essence is also the most critical basic setting in the whole scam. As a result, the director completed his hypnosis for most of the audience. Just like he arranged for the "hermit" to hypnotize the audience in the magic show.
Why do you say that, because once you believe that there is a big conspiracy behind the appearance, you have to look for the big boss, right? The Four Horsemen dormant for a year after seeing the complicated design in the small room. Something must have happened and there must be a master behind the scenes. Okay, then the director will throw Michael Kane to you—please, Michael Kane! You never make soy sauce, right? It was he who funded the performance of the Four Horsemen. He must have wanted to take the opportunity to make money-this is the first smoke screen.
In the second game, Michael was also hacked, losing more than 14 million in vain, claiming revenge. In line with the principle that the enemy's enemy is a friend, he once again negotiated with Morgan Freeman-please, Morgan Freeman! If Michael washes white, then he must be black, right? Or, is Michael black and Morgan the smoke bomb? ——At this point, the two smoke bombs are clashing. Because the actor's own charm is too strong, any explanation is okay, so I'm a little dizzy here.
However, it will soon be known that Morgan is not actually black, but the fact that it was hacked. why? Because he always made the look of "you are all fools, I know everything", according to the logic of "pretending to be struck by lightning", he is basically the last unlucky one. In addition, the appearance of so many pig teammates in the police force also makes people understand that this must be an "infernal affairs" story. There must be ghosts in the police force. It will be someone else.
Okay, here comes the third smoke screen-who is the inner ghost? The easiest option is definitely a stranger from France. Otherwise, the pig teammates whose sleeves were stuffed into the meat grinder, the high-ranking police officers who rushed to curse in a hurry, are also like smoke screen bombs. In short, the hard-working agent and the real boss: Mark Ruffalo is the least suspect in comparison.
Now we understand what the "non-general logic" mentioned at the beginning of the movie really means. It’s not like a general magic technique, trying to attract your eyes to other places before you want to make a small action, but every link leads you to have the necessary doubts, and then quickly throws the simplest explanation to you, let You don't get to the bottom of it anymore. From this setting, "Devil Thieves Group" is quite interesting, making up for the slightly abrupt lack of the big boss.
In addition, why didn't everyone respond "Wow, I was shocked so awesome, that's okay", but "Oh, ah, ah, okay, let's wash and sleep"? I think it may be because the movie has committed a big taboo of traditional mystery-"The murderer is the policeman responsible for investigating the case."
Everyone can understand Van Dyne’s theory without having to move out, so it’s better not to be a policeman as the murderer. Take the "Magic Band" case, if Mark is the big boss, then he doesn't have to fight so hard when he is fighting the Four Knights-of course, it is necessary for him to fight hard for the chasing car, because at that time he His colleagues can see "how hard he is", Morgan can also see, and he can also get important blueprints to guide the next step, which is necessary for fooling other people in the play. I mean, when he and "Reaper" were fighting in the small room, no one was watching (the pig teammates couldn't get out in the kitchen). Who did they play so hard to see? Purely to deceive the audience, it seems that the information is too unequal, and it is not the work of a gentleman.
However, another reason why this film cannot be considered a bad film is that the information is fairly fair and equal most of the time. For example, there are too many bridge segments suggesting the identity of the big boss: the magician who drowned 20 years ago, the name on the box at the end of the garbage passage, "the rose does not smell because of its name", the inexplicable exchange of handcuffs in the interrogation room... Of course, the most doubtful thing about Mark is that he is too handsome. While trying to play the role of "teammate pig" and "I really want to see you show a confused expression so that you can do a DVD cover" role, he can hardly control his eyes with his eyes. With the phone on, the investigation found that the burning eyebrows can still have the intention to kiss a French girl and get a little ambiguous-how can such a character be just a stupid agent, right? You see, the face he showed after the high-level stage last is the handsome guy!
In addition, some small details (rabbit box magic, prison guard locking the door) also echo the plot. Generally, bad movies will not bother to do this. The rhythm of a bad film is usually: tell you 8% of the facts in the first 80 minutes of the film, and then suddenly tell you the remaining 80% in the last 20 minutes (the remaining 12% of the director himself can’t figure out what happened), and he thinks it’s super. Make an awesome expression of "I'm scared of you!", and finally leave 5 minutes for the hero and heroine to express feelings...
Therefore, "Magic Thieves" is what Gao Qun said, "It has a fatal pleasure, but also a fatal. Defects". Or don't say so exaggeratedly, it should be "pleasure, but also flaws." Not as deadly as "Fatal Magic", and the level is about the same as "Inception" or "The Very Suspect". In order to create a sense of pleasure, the money that the producer has thrown out is about the same as the dollar bills and euros flying in the sky in the movie, right? I personally think that although the big boss is not unexpected, the way the big boss sees the light is still quite shocking-Morgan was still talking about his insight in the first second, and the only listener was gone in the next second. At that moment, I cursed secretly in my heart: "Wipe, Houdini!" In fact, it is good for Mark to leave like this. It is more a kind of "Lao Tzu's kind of magician doesn't need to talk to you" than just staying and scolding Morgan. "More nonsense" refreshing feeling. Ha ha ha ha.
The most funny thing is that there are easter eggs at the end of the film, which seems to be a sequel. However, many netizens found that its sequel had already been filmed-"Shawshank's Redemption". But let me say that if Morgan "goed in" because of this case, it is still very hopeful that a good lawyer would be released in court... (Except for the inexplicable extra 500 million dollars in the car, the old Morgan has no other evidence at all. Okay)
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