The Reel Rejects - NOW YOU SEE ME (2013) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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Starting point is 00:01:33 Oh, that's such a cool name. We're going to watch Now You See Me. Do you see me right now? No, where are you? Oh, there you are. Somewhere better than this. I'll tell you that much. Listen, you got to leave a like. You got to type in the computer. You got to leave comments, you guys, so that people think we are cool. And you also have to ring the bell. Ring the bell. Yeah, you got to get on our side. Ring that bell. Also, if you're not already on Patreon, you need to get on there because then you could sync up with your full copy. What's the whole thing with me and Batman right here? The whole entire movie.

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Starting point is 00:02:40 So ready. Okay. Want to see some magic. Yeah. Now you see me. Now you don't. Here we go. On the count of three, open your eyes and tell me what you see.

Starting point is 00:02:55 One, two. Okay. Oh. Oh, it was Luis Lettieri directed this. It was the director of Incredible Hulk. It's funny that he actually... Oh, yeah, and that's why... Well, no, Mark Ruffalo...

Starting point is 00:03:08 Oh, no, he wasn't the one. But fun fact, even though Ed Norton was the Hulk in that film, he actually wanted Mark Ruffalo to be the Hulk before, yeah, but they actually got Edward Norton and then... I didn't know that. There was a major clash between Kevin Figey, Marvel, and Ed Norton, so they're like, let's go with Mark Ruffalo. Oh.

Starting point is 00:03:26 But that's cool that he finally got to work with Mark Ruffalo, So I'm always a sucker for a great twist. And again, the whole, I do have some questions about, I mean, I have to really think about it more in terms of, again, you know, revenge is a fickle matter. And, you know, what Morgan Freeman did to Mark Ruffalo's father, I can understand wanting to, hey, I'm going to have to come up with some elaborate plot and scheme. And I'm going to have to join the FBI. And then I'm going to have to search out magicians and escape art and blah, blah, blah. So I guess I could buy into this, again, if I really thought way too hard on him, I'd probably come up with some logic of, yeah, this plan's not going to work.

Starting point is 00:04:07 But I could probably do that with a lot of movies that I love and just, you know what? It was a great twist. But again, in the comments section, if you think I'm wrong and say, hey, Andrew, you're wrong. It was a crap twist. That's cool. But I liked it. I did not see it coming. Yeah, I didn't at all.

Starting point is 00:04:23 Again, I was under the impression it was probably Michael Kane was him or the, or the, Or the Interpol woman, or maybe it was Morgan Freeman. So, again, I really didn't see it as Mark Ruffalo. So, again, I'm a sucker for a good twist. And I also just, I'm also a sucker for magic in general. And I just loved all the, just all the magician stuff, all the magic stuff. It was just, it was elaborate. It was fun.

Starting point is 00:04:51 I just loved it all. It was great. It was a fun ride this movie, what did you think? It was a lot of fun. I feel like him being 12, though, and carrying that grudge throughout his entire life is like, wow, that's tough. I get that you would also need many, many years to think this through. But I also think, like, God, life, you get through, like, high school and college and people come your way and you're probably like, how am I still going to get? I'm just, Mark Rufflow's character in this.

Starting point is 00:05:18 I'm like, you have a lot of resolve, buddy. The fact from 12 until now and you carried it through, cool. The one scene that keeps, like, in my head keeps messing me. up is that when Morgan calls him and tells him that girl was not assigned to you, she chose it, right? Why is she throwing your game? That he so genuinely was like, wait, she was assigned like she had to be on this case, right? Why would that, that's the only thing that I'm like, oh, of course it would mess him up, maybe that one little detail, but he really worked, he worked out the whole thing. Like, he saw the whole plan ahead of him. So the phone call thing

Starting point is 00:05:54 was the main thing that threw me off from that, I think because he was so genuine about like, wait, what do you mean this girl? She could not. And then he yells at her being like, I'm not asking you. I'm asking him when I'm like, yeah, but the whole time he was in on the entire thing.

Starting point is 00:06:09 Right? And he didn't need to be mad in front of anyone else to make the thing work, right? So, you know, I'd be interested too in a rewatch just like now that we know the twist, like looking at all the signs of Mark Ruffalo. Because when you watch this in the first, First, it really, just before I accidentally spoil it, because I don't want to.

Starting point is 00:06:28 Have you seen the film The Fugitive with Tommy Lee Jones and Harrison Ford? Yeah. Okay, well, I'm not going to spoil. Anyways, in that film, Tommy Lee Jones is on the hunt for Harrison Ford. That's all I'm going to say about that. But it really felt like, you know, that in a sense of Mark Ruffalo is really going, hunting them down and will do anything to stop them. And from that perspective, I loved it. And, like, I would have never ever, that's why I never would have guessed the twist in this in terms of.

Starting point is 00:06:54 of like that, no, he's the one who hired them in the beginning. Right, and he's putting in all that effort. Yeah, which was great. And then also, too, like, he's ridiculing the Interpol woman and he's like actually physically fighting them and doing it. I'm like, this is good stuff. That's what messes me up. Yeah, no, that's great for a first time watch. It throws us off the set.

Starting point is 00:07:13 But also I'm like, yeah, but are you also an actor as your character? Right? Because he doesn't, it's, yeah, that's that, all of that is like, oh, even when you're sitting down to write the script, you're like, it makes. It may not make total sense because why would he need to be yelling at her or the other people to make his plan work? He doesn't. Yeah. But it makes it better, obviously, for the story for the audience. I have no doubt there were a rare group of people that might have guessed that it might have been.

Starting point is 00:07:40 That might have seen it coming. Yeah, Mark Ruffalo and it's off to you people. But I got to imagine it was a rare, rare few. But still, that's, again, I really did enjoy it. But again, my favorite part of this film besides that twist was watching the camaraderie and the chemistry. between the four of them. I thought they all did such a great job and I loved all their interactions

Starting point is 00:07:58 and the way they worked with each other and the way they got comfortable with each other too. Like even when he's like, just the simple interaction when they were in the elevator and he's like, you know, in all the year we worked together.

Starting point is 00:08:09 I just wanted to say, I thought you were a dick and yeah, that's it. Yeah. Just little interactions like that. Just like getting invested in character interactions like that. And again, I just thought

Starting point is 00:08:20 they all had such great chemistry. Oh. I loved watching them again work together. And I also love scenes, too, when they were like, wait, how did they do that thing with the safe? And I like that. Instead of talking about it, they showed us how they came up with these schemes. And I thought it was just fun the way they do it in a nonlinear way. Oh, yeah, how they tied like the mirror thing with the rabbit to the case thing.

Starting point is 00:08:42 And then the big, like, thing, you're like, oh, my God, okay. And again, it's also for like when you come to rewatch for a second, third, fourth time, you're like, foreshadowing. Okay, this is cool. Except you don't know to look for that big of a foreshadow in one little instance of a trick, right? Totally. But I think that's why we thought, or at least why I thought, the foreshadowing was her playing with cards on the plane with Mark Rufflow's character being like, is she trying to throw them off some scent and make herself look like, I'm learning, but like she knows everything. Like that also was a thing where I would like, any little thing in here is it foreshadowing, which is probably their ploy to be like, yeah, you're going to think it's everything else. except for the one thing that you're staring at the entire time during this movie.

Starting point is 00:09:25 Yeah, I don't know if it would warrant an actual... I mean, I know they made a sequel, which I don't know anything about. If this is obviously... It gets a good number of views, obviously, I assume we're going to do a reaction. But the point I'm making is I even... I was very fascinated, and obviously, as mentioned many times, I love that twist with Mark Ruffalo. I'd be very fascinating.

Starting point is 00:09:47 Even if they showed a flashback, I don't need, like, per se, a whole movie of just with Morgan Freeman's... character and Mark Ruffalo's father, Elias Cotillas, in terms of what happened. How did we get here? Yeah, like, I mean, I just, I was actually very, and again, I was most fascinated about just what was going on with our four main characters and Mark Ruffalo, the chase and all that stuff, because just it was so mesmerizing all that, all that fun stuff and all the magic. Right.

Starting point is 00:10:11 Just throw magic. I'm entertained. Yeah. But, I mean, yeah, if you get me, even, I don't know if it's going to be necessary. Now you see me, too, because I don't have no idea what the plot is in that film. But even if it was in this film, which again, it was not necessary. But I would have definitely been intrigued. Even it was like a five, ten minutes scene where if they would have just visually.

Starting point is 00:10:31 Giving us a little more foundation between Morgan and the dad. Just so I could have had just a little bit of a visual again. Even with the dialogue that they gave me, that was definitely enough. This is not a criticism. It's just something like I would have loved to have seen. Yeah, well, it gives us that payoff more, right? Because you're saying if you saw that foundation set up, Mark Ruffalo's pain even more.

Starting point is 00:10:52 I still felt it, but I would have felt it even more. Yeah, I kind of did, but not really until the end. And we went, oh, now we see the connection. Yeah. Which, yes, you would want to, like, kill those people or mess him up, right? Morgan's character, bad enough. I would be like, I mean, again, I still was on Mark Ruffalo's side in terms of, I get where he's coming from.

Starting point is 00:11:14 And I would totally, like, if that were me in his position, I would totally want Morgan Freeman in there for the rest of his natural. life. Yep. But if you show it to me, it's like, I'm so on board with you. I'm extra on board. Get him in that jail jail. Like, show me the dad dying in the safe and the ocean and then the kid there and he's lonely and

Starting point is 00:11:36 he's now without a dad. Like, show us a little bit. I mean, that's the beginning of every Disney movie, right? Parent dies, kids left alone. We're all like weeping at the end because of the foundation they've set up. Out of subject question. I'm very curious. So Elias Cotiers, who of course played the great Casey Jones and Turtles, Teenagers Ninja Turtles 1 and 3.

Starting point is 00:11:54 He plays Mark Ruffalo's father, as we see in the newspaper clipping there. Uh-huh. How much does he get paid just for a newspaper clipping of his photo? Like, I'm just curious. How much do you get paid for just a picture? I guess if your face is in there, I mean, you're not going to get... You're not getting nothing. You're getting something for that.

Starting point is 00:12:12 You're getting something. I don't know how much it would be, though. I'd be whatever they offered. I mean, if it's more than, I mean, still, whatever you get, it's like, here's a picture, here's some money, here you go. That's awesome. I wonder. That's a good question. I'll get 1% of the gross. Thank you very much. I doubt it. It works for me. Like, he didn't do any work. He's like, here's a headshot from 1979. You guys can use that. Overall, though, I had a blast with this movie. It was a lot of fun. There's a reason it's 7.2 on IMDB and it has almost like 4.5 stars. This movie is wildly entertaining. It moves really quick.

Starting point is 00:12:49 It has good dialogue and it constantly keeps you guessing. Yeah, it keeps you on the edge of your seat. And there's, I mean, a lot of these movies, I feel like I'm not, I, we can be somewhat ahead. We're like, oh, we really saw that coming without like telling you guys that. Yeah. And this one I was, I was just guessing. I was throwing S-H-I-T at the wall you guys heard. And I was not right in any of that.

Starting point is 00:13:12 Well, that's one of my biggest pet peeves is when I'm able to predict things. And I know sometimes I get criticized for that. in the comments like, stop predicting, stop spoiling things, just enjoy. And it's like, that's one of the things I like doing is predicting things, not spoiling. He likes to spoil. Yes, I know. Sorry, guys. No, it's, it's not that I like.

Starting point is 00:13:30 It's just, sometimes I just, and again, it's hard writing for sure. I get it. I've tried to attempt to do and I suck at it. I'll admit it. It's very difficult to write. So I just like playing the prediction game. But on the flip side, that's one of my pet peeves. I hate being able to.

Starting point is 00:13:47 predict things so when something is able to really get me on a twist i'm genuinely happy to when i see it oh yeah and i mean the thing is is you guys know when you watch so many movies and so much tv and you golf so much media you kind of see twists and turns coming because you're just like they're just following tropes of a thing exactly this movie just didn't follow any tropes i've seen before and made it wildly entertaining with really good actors that i believe that were like grounded that my biggest pet beef which i you guys have heard me say if i don't believe the actors, then I kind of am like, I'm out. The illusion it breaks.

Starting point is 00:14:22 Yeah, it's like, I can't, I can't handle that. And these guys were great. Super grounded, everyone in it. Awesome, awesome, awesome, great casting. Which I always very much appreciate. Yeah, I would give it out of 10. I'm going to go for like an 8 out of 10. I would maybe even go like 8.5.

Starting point is 00:14:40 Thank you. I was going to say I'm going for an 8 so we can't have the same. Yeah, I'll put it up to an 8.5 because I thought this was a just, it was a blast. Like, I would, this is a lot of fun. I would have loved to be having, like, some whiskey and watch this so that any time Mark Ruffalo's like, I'm getting a drink, I'd be like, me too. If they would have showed me that flashback scene, it would have been in, I'm just kidding.

Starting point is 00:15:03 No, no, no, but I'll go with an eight. That's still a high score, so, yeah. Maybe it's in the second one. Who knows? Maybe they set the foundation there. Okay. Then if they put it in the second one, I'll go back to an 8.5 for this one. Okay.

Starting point is 00:15:14 Well, well, well, he's moving. He seems like a fickle guy, right? He's back and forth on it, depending upon if they said the foundation or not, this guy. That's exactly how I am. Okay, well, I mean, I think those are our last thoughts. You guys need to put in the comments, number one, just be like, hey, you're cool. Tell me if you like my new t-shirt. It's big.

Starting point is 00:15:34 It's oversized. It says Los Angeles with a cool car on it. Gives me a Miami-Vice type of feel. I like it. Yeah, like a 90s. I was thinking 80s, 5. Maybe it's 80s. I don't know anything from 80s or 90s.

Starting point is 00:15:47 I was born obviously in 2005. Look at my face. Any last words? Batman, man. I'm Batman. No, just like I said, this was a fun, entertain me. Entertaining film. Edge of your seat, fun twist, or good twist, rather.

Starting point is 00:16:07 Fun characters and like you said, really grounded and magic entertaining film. I really enjoyed it. We had a blast of Rooney. We love you guys. And we'll see you. the next one. Bye!

The Reel Rejects - NOW YOU SEE ME (2013) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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