Showing posts with label Dave Franco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dave Franco. Show all posts

Saturday, December 03, 2016

Game over


A MOOC called Nerve shows V (Emma Roberts) the quintessential millenial all about love, breaking free, new money, the beginning and the end of catfights, and a healthy dose of idealism. Fast paced enough to overlook some patchy storyline, the story would resonate with younger folk and those that seek the meaning behind the deeper interconnection of people and their phones and the dark web and hackers and of thrill seeking behavior. Rush stuff

13.5/20

Saturday, June 15, 2013

Dark Horses



Four magicians - Daniel (Jesse Eisenberg), Henley (Isla Fisher), Jack (Dave Franco) and Merritt (Woody Harrelson) - get a mysterious summons that is later found to be from one Arthur Tressler (Michael Caine). The four maricians form the Four Horsemen - who put up a show in Vegas that unbelievably has a man from teh audience rob a bank in Paris, and distribute the largesse to the attendees. The act of crime, however benevolent, does not go unnoticed, and the quartet soon find tenacious detectives Dylan (Mark Ruffalo) and Alma (Melanie Laurent) hot on their trail. But is that really an accurate picture of the goings-on, or, in the true nature of magic, are we seeing less the closer we get? Now you See Me is no The Prestige, but what it lacks in dark noir intensity, it more than makes up in a never-a-dull-moment script with a cops-and-robbers sequence interspersed by some pretty spectacular magic shows

14/20

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