History YMMV / NowYouSeeMe

* AwesomeEgo: You could make a case of this for most of the characters, particularly the Four Horsemen and Bradley. They're all arrogant blowhards, but the former are so [[MagnificentBastard magnificent]] with the heists and tricks they pull off, and the latter with how he is able to brilliantly dissect their heists better than the law could ever hope. [[spoiler:Then it turns that Bradley is not quite as slick as he thinks, while Dylan Rhodes is the most awesome one of all.]]

* MarySue: Alma. She can do no wrong, apparently, [[ActionGirl can fight]], and has enough [[Adorkable quirky tendencies]] to make the viewer contract [[TastesLikeDiabetes diabetes]].

* CriticalDissonance: Rated "Rotten" at 48% on Rotten Tomatoes but the "regular" folks at CinemaScore rate it an A-.

* DesignatedVillain: Probably an issue that bothers many people who have seen the film.[[spoiler:Thaddeus Bradley did nothing illegal and nothing more immoral than expose Lionel Shrike's magic tricks. Of all the people responsible for Shrike's death and his family never receiving the life insurance they were owed, he's arguably the least responsible, yet undeniably gets punished the worst for it.]]

* DesignatedVillain: [[spoiler:Thaddeus Bradley did nothing illegal and nothing more immoral than expose Lionel Shrike's magic tricks. Of all the people responsible for Shrike's death and his family never receiving the life insurance they were owed, he's arguably the least responsible, yet undeniably gets punished the worst for it.]]
** Or perhaps the issue is that he learned nothing from it. [[spoiler:A man died, undeniably if not directly, because Bradley ruined his act, and yet there Bradley is, continuing to try and do the same to other magicians. Dylan also suggests that Bradley started his whole endeavour to end other performers' careers after The Eye rejected him.]]

** Or [[spoiler:The Eye really does have "True Magic," and Dylan just teleported.]]

* DesignatedVillain: [[spoiler: Thaddeus Bradley did nothing illegal and nothing more immoral than expose Lionel Shrike's magic tricks. Of all the people responsible for Shrike's death and his family never receiving the life insurance they were owed, he's arguably the least responsible, yet undeniably gets punished the worst for it.]]
** Perhaps the issue is that he learned nothing from it. [[spoiler: A man died, undeniably if not directly, because Bradley ruined his act, and yet there Bradley is, continuing to try and do the same to other magicians. Dylan also suggests that Bradley started his whole endeavour to end other performers' careers after The Eye rejected him]]

** Or [[spoiler: The Eye really does have "True Magic," and Dylan just teleported.]]

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The prisoner is handcuffed to the table and...oh, wait, now you're handcuffed to the table. Followed up with one of the cockiest lines ever - see BadassBoast in the main article.

* Narm: It only become apparent on replays, but the final scene between Dylan and Bradley may become a lot sillier when you realise that [[spoiler: as Bradley is desperately trying to work out the Horsemen's trick to save himself from life imprisonment (while standing with his back to Dylan), Dylan is squeezing himself between the cell's bars in order to make his big reveal as the Fifth Horseman]]

* XanatosRoulette

** Perhaps the issue is that he learned nothing from it. [[spoiler: A man died, undeniably if not directly, because Bradley ruined his act, and yet there Bradley is, continuing to try and do the same to other magacians]]

* Xanatos Roulette

* DesignatedVillain: [[spoiler: Thaddeus Bradley did nothing illegal and nothing more immoral than expose Lionel Shrike's magic tricks. Of all the people responsible for Shrike's death and his family never receiving the life insurance they were owed, he's arguably the least responsible, yet undeniably gets punished the worst for it.]]

* DesignatedVillain: [[spoiler: Thaddeus Bradley did nothing illegal and nothing more immoral than expose Lionel Shrike's magic tricks. Of all the people responsible for Shrike's death, he's arguably the least responsible, yet undeniably gets punished the worst for it.]]

* DesignatedVillain: [[spoiler: Thaddeus Bradley did nothing illegal and nothing more immoral than expose Lionel Shrike's magic tricks. Of all the people responsible for Shrike's death, he's arguably the least responsible, yet undeniably gets punished the worst for it.]]

** [[spoiler: Depending on how you view it, however, he can also be the single ''most'' responsible for said death; had he not simply decided for whatever reason to reveal all of Shrike's work and discredit him, Shrike would've never made an accidentally suicidal comeback attempt. This gets a LampshadeHanging during his first scene where Agent Alma points out that his line of work can ruin lives of certain magicians. The fact that he shows no remorse, dismisses the death out of hand when it's brought up, and insults Shrike's abilities after his death makes him pretty unsympathetic in the end.]]

** [[spoiler: Depending on how you view it, however, he can also be the single ''most'' responsible for said death; had he not simply decided for whatever reason, to reveal all of Shrike's work and discredit him, he would've never had make an accidentally suicidal comeback attempt. This gets a LampshadeHanging during his first scene where Agent Alma points out that his line of work can ruin lives of certain magicians. The fact that he shows no remorse, dismisses the death out of hand when it's brought up, and insults Shrike's abilities after his death makes him pretty unsympathetic in the end.]]

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation/AlternateAesopInterpretation: Whether Thaddeus Bradley deserved his eventual fate, as seen below.

** [[spoiler: Depending on how you view it, however, he can also be the single ''most'' responsible for said death; had he not simply decided for whatever reason, to reveal all of Shrike's work and discredit him- ''he'd never had to have made an accidentally suicidal comeback attempt.'' This gets a LampshadeHanging during his first scene where Agent Alma points out that his line of work can ruin lives of certain magicians.]]

* DesignatedVillain: [[spoiler: Thaddeus Bradley did nothing illegal and nothing more immoral than expose Lionel Shrike's magic tricks. Of all the people responsible for Shrike's death, he's arguably the least responsible, yet undeniably gets punished the worst for it.]]

* DesignatedVillain: [[spoiler: Thaddeus Bradley did nothing illeagal and nothing more immoral than expose Lionel Shrike's magic tricks. Of all the people responisible for Shrike's death, he's arguably the least responsible, yet undeniably gets punished the worst for it.]]
** [[spoiler: To be fair, Thaddeus committed the most treasonous act one magician could commit against another. This could just be the Eye punishing Thaddeus, and Dylan killing two birds with one stone.]]

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