(Originally from Facebook – August 3, 2013)

Sigh. I wanted to like this one. A caper film. With magic. Should have been right up my alley. But I forgot about the Eisenberg Principle, which is that whenever I see Jesse Eisenberg in a film, I have an overwhelming desire to punch him in the face…repeatedly. Here, he was at his face-punchingly worst. Add to that a lack of verisimilitude, a twist that you ought to see coming well before it arrives, and a completely unnecessary (and undeveloped) romantic subplot, and I was underwhelmed. It did have potential, but to my mind, the final third went off the rails. It’s getting a good score at IMDB (7.4), but maybe that’s just misdirection. 😉 I’m giving it a 4.5, with the expectation that many people are going to disagree. (running time 1:55)