Now You See Me Page #9

Synopsis: Four magicians each answer a mysterious summons to an obscure address with secrets inside. A year later, they are the Four Horsemen, big time stage illusionists who climax their sold out Las Vegas show with a bank apparently robbed for real. This puts agents Dylan Rhodes of the FBI and Alma Dray of Interpol on the case to find out how they did it. However, this mystery proves difficult to solve even with the insights of the professional illusion exposer, Thaddeus Bradley. What follows is a bizarre investigation where nothing is what it seems with illusions, dark secrets and hidden agendas galore as all involved are reminded of a great truth in this puzzle: the closer you look, the less you see.
Director(s): Louis Leterrier
Production: Lionsgate Films
  1 win & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
50
Rotten Tomatoes:
50%
PG-13
Year:
2013
115 min
$117,698,894
Website
8,829 Views


- Where are they?

I don't know. She just took some guy's car.

- Where are they?

- That way. That way.

- Is that your car?

- Yeah.

Let's go.

(GRUNTS)

(BRAKES SQUEAL)

- Whoa!

There he is!

(SIRENS WAILING)

DYLAN:
Move!

Left!

We're heading east on the FDR Drive.

- This is not east.

- North! North!

- We're heading north on the FDR Drive.

- What?

MALE NEWSCASTER:
We're coming

to you live above the FDR,

where NYPD and federal agents,

as you now see,

are engaged in a high-speed pursuit,

following a black sedan.

DYLAN:
Fuller, where are you?

Right here. Trying to catch up to you now.

NEWSCASTER:
We're now trying

to get you a better shot.

Come on!

Whoa!

Sorry.

Whoa!

NEWSCASTER:
It looks like they're turning

onto the 59th Street Bridge.

As soon as we have them within range,

we will bring you those pictures live.

Good. Just stay with him.

(SIRENS WAILING)

Go, go, go!

(YELLS)

Behind... You're behind the bus!

Get over!

Ha-ha!

Oh, sh*t!

Uh-oh!

Come here!

Get back! Get back!

Dylan, let's go, man!

Come on, you...

FULLER:
Come on, man! Get out!

DYLAN:
He's gonna die in here.

Leave him! There's nothing you can do!

Let's go! Leave him!

DYLAN:
- The paper!

FULLER:
- Dylan!

Let's go! Let's go! Come on!

NEWSCASTER:
Today,

the unfolding story of a popular

and controversial group of magicians,

who have been fast capturing

the public's imagination,

took a dark turn when a police

action that began in Chinatown

developed into a dramatic, high-speed chase

across the 59th Street Bridge,

which caused a fatal collision

that took the life of Jack Wilder,

one of the so-called Four Horsemen.

The whereabouts ot the other three

Horsemen remain unknown at this time.

FULLER:
Dylan, they just figured out

what the paper was in Jack's car.

So they know what it is?

And why the kid died trying to protect it.

Evans is on his way to brief us right now.

Let's go.

You're gonna wanna take this first, though.

What's that?

Your friend Thaddeus Bradley.

Rhodes.

You do understand the function

of the magician's assistant,

don't you, Agent Rhodes?

Yeah, she's there to distract them

while he sets up the trick.

I'm going to go with her.

Go. I got your back. I'll be right here.

Go ahead!

That's on you, Fuller.

Let's go, let's go! Now, now, now!

Daniel?

(CHUCKLES) You'd be right

if you weren't so wrong.

While you're watching the magician,

that lovely innocent is actually

pulling the strings.

Don't you find it peculiar that Interpol

would send you

a first timer off the desk

to be your assistant?

Why did she request to be put on the case?

- She was assigned to the case.

- Oh.

Luck of the draw.

Like choosing a random card in the deck.

I find it odd, your

sudden act of generosity.

What's in it for you?

Just trying to even the game.

I feel like I'm playing with somebody

wearing ankle weights and flippers.

Keep up, Agent Rhodes. Keep up.

FULLER:
Hey.

We got a problem.

COWAN:
Here's the safe.

No, no, no. Hey. What's he doing here?

Giving us our first solid lead.

We've been investigating a private security

contractor called Elkhorn

- for the last five years.

- And?

They've been hiding close

to a half billion dollars...

I didn't ask you. I asked him.

The money's in a vault inside

a warehouse in Queens.

We think this vault

is your magicians' final target.

COWAN:
The magician

who died on the bridge...

You pulled our classified Elkhorn file

right from his crispy little hand.

And despite their bullshit

Robin Hood razzle-dazzle,

your magicians are nothing

more than common thieves.

How did they get the file?

This is the part you're gonna find

particularly interesting, Agent Rhodes.

They patched to my server after they accessed

your mobile command center in New Orleans

with codes they got from your phone.

You ordered us all out to chase after them.

The level of incompetence

displayed on this case,

that's a magic trick in and of itself.

Abracadabra. I'm taking over.

Boss, he's taking over?

EVANS:
Let's go, gentlemen.

DYLAN:
Hey.

Hey. I want to have a word with you.

Don't ever talk to me like that again.

- Why the hell did you take this case?

- What?

People say I'm "hard to read."

That's an American expression.

Do you understand it?

Yes.

Good, then let me make myself

perfectly clear to you.

If I find out that you are anything other

than who you say you are, I swear...

And we French also have an expression.

(SPEAKING FRENCH)

"Faith can move mountains."

If we hope to capture The Horsemen,

then you need to have a little faith in me.

Because I've done nothing

to deserve otherwise.

I just got my ass handed to me.

I am losing this case.

So faith is a luxury

I don't have any time for right now.

DANIEL:
More than anything in his life,

Jack wanted to be

the most famous magician who ever lived.

And I can't say he achieved it,

but I do hope wherever he is,

it is full of magic.

But the point is... Sorry.

The point is...

The point of why we are here is to say

that we are not... We cannot quit now.

We've started something

bigger than all of us.

We have to finish it.

(SIRENS WAILING)

MAN:
Approaching the warehouse.

Units 5 and 6

cover the north and south entrances.

We are going for the vault.

Hey. Where's the safe? Where's the safe?

EVANS:
What is this?

Where the hell is the goddamn safe?

We just moved it while you were outside.

- Evans' orders.

COWAN:
- What?

I never said that.

Sir, you got a phone call

and said Washington wants the safe moved.

You never heard that

come out of my mouth, Agent.

What happened?

What happened? You tell me what's going on,

because this is bullshit!

No!

(CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING)

Jesus Christ.

Sir? Sir? What are you doing?

I think it's Beethoven's

Concerto in D-Major.

- Where's the safe?

- His team is loading the truck.

- Hey! Hey!

- Hey!

DYLAN:
- Stop the truck!

- Stop!

- Stop!

- Hey! Stop that truck!

(DYLAN AND FULLER CONTINUE YELLING)

What the hell's going on?

We got our orders.

Now you've got new orders. Open it up.

Okay. Here's what I want.

At this moment,

they think that safe's leaving this site.

So we stay with it. We follow it all

the way to... Where's it going?

5 Pointz. Up the street.

So we go to 5 Pointz.

Wherever the safe goes, we go.

It'll lead us right to 'em.

You two are with me.

Guys...

Look. Office just called with this.

Horsemen posted it to YouTube

20 minutes ago.

The point of why we're here

is to say that we are not...

We cannot quit now.

We've started something bigger than all of us.

We have to finish it.

Remember the name Jack Wilder

when you see us live,

5 Pointz, Queens, 7:00.

Their show is in a half an hour.

It's exactly where we're headed.

I don't know, boss.

I don't wanna be the naysayer,

but these guys are kinda tricky.

Rhodes, they're entertainers.

NEWSCASTER 1:
A stunning

turnout here in 5 Pointz

as the renegade Horsemen

taunt the FBI into a final showdown.

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Ed Solomon

Ed Solomon is an American writer, producer and director. He began his career in college as a joke writer, stand up comedian, and playwright and, while still in college, was a staff writer for Laverne ... more…

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