“One question you never hear cinema-goers asking any more is “How did they do that?”
“For years now, so-called “movie magic” has all been done using computers, since Hollywood boffins and their pixel-wrangling skills have long since made the impossible more or less commonplace.
“Which fails to shed light on why 2013’s Now You See Me was such a frankly unlikely movie hit.
“Seeing magicians in the flesh leaves us shaking our heads trying to work out how on earth they achieve their trickery, but a movie about a quartet of arena-filling illusionists?
“Since we all know it’s the special effects crew who’ll be pulling digital rabbits out of digital hats, how could we believe in the magicians’ powers of deception?”
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