So
Now You See Me and
The Purge both penetrated my eyeballs the past couple days...
SPOILERS.
As for the
Now You Can See Me flick, I found Dave Franco to be very, very meaningless. It was almost funny when they would hand him a pity piece of dialogue. And he reminded me of the guy with the cards from
X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Elsa was somewhat annoying actually, and Eisenberg made me hate him. His douchey personality in The Social Network worked for some reason, and in this movie it just made me want to punch him between the eyes.
It was alright, some of the tricks were cool. Still think we would have seen the body dropping through the floor on that first trick, but whatever. The twist at the end wasn't earth-shattering for me and didn't blow my mind, yet I still don't think Ruffalo could have pulled off the dumb detective so well had he been the
actual mastermind behind it all.
5/10
The Purge was less than spectacular. Really wish they had delved into WHY this was morally right, and HOW it got to be that way. I seriously wanted Hawke and the creepy Kurt Cobain looking blonde dude to sit down in a room and talk for maybe like 10 minutes face-to-face about why this was even beneficial to society in the first place. That could have really propelled the movie and cement itself more if it had an epic dialogue scene.
Was his wife the chick from
The Replacements? Knew I recognized her from somewhere.
The son was just straight pissing me off the entire time.
Wasn't scary in the slightest. Thought it could have been the neighbors the whole time under those masks, but it turns out they had a vendetta that they wanted to go through with their faces displayed. Pretty weird. The best part for me was the daughter's boyfriend walking down the hallway without knowledge of his plans/or at least thinking he was just there to talk, and he straight tried to kill the dad.
But other than that, I'll probably just forget this one.
4/10
Oh and....
