Showing posts with label Thriller. Show all posts
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Friday, June 20, 2014

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The film takes place in two different times: the present and 11 years earlier. The two plotlines are told in parallel through flashbacks.

Eleven years ago, computer developer Alan Russell moves into a new house with his wife Marie, 10-year-old son Tim, and 13-year-old daughter Kaylie. Alan purchases an antique mirror to decorate his office. The mirror induces hallucinations in both adults; Marie is haunted by visions of her own body putrefying and decaying while she is still alive, while Alan is seduced by a ghostly woman named Marisol, who has mirrors in place of eyes.

Over time, the parents become detached and psychotic, with Alan isolating himself in his office and Marie becoming withdrawn and paranoid; during the same period, all of the plants in the house die and the family dog disappears after being locked in the office with the mirror. After Kaylie witnesses Alan interacting with Marisol and tells her mother, Marie becomes feral and, after a period of starving herself, attempts to murder the children. Alan overpowers her and chains her to their bedroom wall.

Alan remains isolated in his office for an indeterminate period of time; when the family runs out of food, the children attempt to seek help from their neighbors, who disbelieve their stories. Attempting to contact doctors or the authorities, Kaylie discovers that all of her phone calls are answered by the same man, who admonishes her to speak with her father.

One night, Alan unchains Marie, and both parents attack the children. Marie briefly comes to her senses, only to be shot dead by Alan. Alan corners the children in his office, but also experiences a moment of lucidity, during which he forces Tim to shoot him to death. The police arrive and take Tim into custody; before the siblings are separated, they promise to reunite as adults and destroy the mirror.

Eleven years later, Tim is discharged from a psychiatric hospital, having come to believe that there were no supernatural events involved in his parents' deaths. Kaylie, meanwhile, has spent most of her young adulthood researching the history of the mirror, obsessively documenting the lives and deaths of everyone who's ever owned it. Using her position as an employee of an auction house, Kaylie obtains access to the mirror and has it transported to the family home, where she places it in a room filled with surveillance cameras in an attempt to document its powers; using a "kill switch"—an anchor weighted to the ceiling and set to a timer—Kaylie intends to end the night with the mirror being destroyed, whether or not she herself survives.

Tim joins Kaylie at the house and attempts to convince his sister that she's rationalized their parents' deaths as being caused by an external force, in order to avoid facing the truth. The siblings argue for the duration of the evening until they find that cameras in the room have inexplicably moved in their absence; reviewing the video, they realize that the mirror induced them to rearrange the contents of the room without their knowledge. Tim accepts that the mirror has some diabolical power and attempts to escape the house with Kaylie, only for the pair to be repeatedly drawn back by the mirror's influence. Trying to call the police for help, they are only able to reach the same voice who spoke to them on the phone as children. Kaylie kills her fiance as she sees a ghostly figure having mirrors for eyes in place of him. The pair begin to hallucinate and experience visions of everyone killed by the mirror, who appear as ghostly figures with mirrors in place of their eyes.

As Kaylie is drawn to the mirror by an image of her mother beckoning to her, Tim experiences a hallucination of being trapped alone in the room with the mirror. He activates the kill switch, causing the anchor to descend and fatally impale Kaylie.

The police arrive and arrest a hysterical Tim, who insists that "the mirror did it." Tim is taken away in the back of a squad car as the ghosts of his parents and sister watch him from the house.

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Wednesday, June 4, 2014

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Four gifted street magicians—J. Daniel Atlas, Merritt McKinney, Henley Reeves, and Jack Wilder—are brought together by an unknown benefactor and, one year later, are performing in Las Vegas as "The Four Horsemen", sponsored by insurance magnate Arthur Tressler. For the finale of their first show, they declare they will rob a bank, and invite audience member Étienne Forcier, an account holder at the Crédit Républicain de Paris, to do it. Forcier is apparently teleported to his bank in Paris, where he activates an air duct that vacuums up the money and showers it onto the Las Vegas crowd. Upon discovering that the money really is missing from the bank vault, FBI agent Dylan Rhodes is called to investigate the theft and is partnered with Interpol agent Alma Dray. They arrest the Horsemen but are forced to release them due to lack of evidence.

Rhodes meets Thaddeus Bradley, a former magician who professionally reveals the secrets behind other magicians' tricks. Bradley was in the audience and deduces the Horsemen stole the money weeks earlier, replacing it with counterfeit money printed on flash paper: while the real money was taken to Vegas for the trick, the counterfeit money was burned. The three go to the group's next performance in New Orleans, where they steal millions from Tressler's bank account and distribute it to the audience, composed of people whose insurance claims had been denied or reduced by Tressler's company. Rhodes attempts to apprehend the Four Horsemen, but they escape. An infuriated Tressler hires Bradley to expose and humiliate the Horsemen in their next performance. Meanwhile, Dray researches the group and suggests to Rhodes they may be tied to a secret society of magicians called "The Eye". One of their members, Lionel Shrike, died decades ago when Bradley exposed his tricks and Shrike attempted a fatal stunt to rebuild his career. Dray believes there may be a fifth Horseman who is aiding the group off-stage.

Preparing for their show in New York, the Horsemen evade authorities, but Wilder's car crashes and explodes. The remaining Horsemen vow to continue and complete their final performance, stealing a safe made by the same company that made the safe Shrike died in. They perform their one last show at 5 Pointz during which they seemingly vanish into thin air, transforming into a shower of bills to rain down on the crowd. The money turns out to be a forgery and the real money is found stashed in Bradley's car. Bradley is assumed to be the fifth Horseman and is arrested. Rhodes visits Bradley in his cell, where Bradley explains that the only way the safe could have been removed was if Wilder was still alive. Bradley realizes that Rhodes is the fifth Horseman when Rhodes disappears from the locked cell and reappears outside it. Rhodes tells Bradley he wants him to spend the rest of his life in jail and leaves. The Horsemen are now rejoined by Wilder, whose death was staged as part of the trick. Rhodes arrives, reveals he is their mysterious benefactor, and welcomes them into The Eye.

At the Pont des Arts in France, Dray is met by Rhodes, who reveals himself to be Shrike's son. He masterminded the Horsemen plot as revenge on those involved: Bradley, for humiliating his father; the Crédit Républicain de Paris and Tressler's company, who refused to pay the insurance on his father's death; and the company that produced the substandard safe used in the trick that led to its failure. Dray decides not to turn him in. She takes a lock and a key that Rhodes magically produces, putting the lock on a chain fence and throwing the key into the Seine.

In the extended edition's mid-credits scene, the Four Horsemen have driven to a wasteland in the middle of a desert. All of them enter and find a secret room containing boxes full of their new magic equipment. They turn to McKinney and ask him for his individual card to open the boxes, but he has lost the cards.

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