While the idea of slick David Copperfield types using magic to pull off capers is enticing and spectacular, the first movie squandered its potential with an inane subplot about an all -
seeing magic society called «The Eye,» and one of the most obnoxious film twists in recent history.
Not exact matches
The 2013 thriller Now You
See Me was all about a team of varyingly intolerable street magicians who discovered that a mysterious figure was grooming them to join a secret
society of supposedly «real» magicians — as in actual
magic, not illusions.
The choice of «
Magic Circle» lies, according to some theorists, in its allusion to the secret / not - secret
society of magicians founded in 1905, into whose hallowed ranks, rather like the Masons, one has to be invited; the price of entry being purely and simply talent, after which one is inducted into the secrets of
sawing a woman in half or pulling a rabbit out of a hat.