I have never seen any of this franchise and as the third one is about to be released, I am curious on what the community’s opinion is of these movies.
The ads smack of YA garage and I have not noticed any buzz around the franchise but the cast gets my attention.
So if you have seen the other two what is your opinion?
If you don't go into it looking for a challenging and thoughtfully laid out story and just want to be entertained, you will enjoy them. The director wants you to feel like you were in a audience at a magic show by reminding you constantly that while you were looking over here the actual trick was being done over there and if you had paid closer attention you could have pieced the puzzle that was the movie together. Except that of course what we are shown is only the distraction and the trick is only explained later on for the benefit of the story and to make the characters seem extremely intelligent and competent.
It is a bit tropeish as you know that somehow even when all the cards are down (is this a pun as we are talking about magicians?) they will somehow pull it off in the end and be successful.
Think the Ocean's 11 series of movies with magicians.
Ok, that is a great response.
Thanks