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". They are being sponsored by insurance magnate Arthur
Tressler. For the finale of their first show, a member of the audience
is invited to help them in their trick: robbing a bank. That audience
member is Étienne Forcier, an account holder at the Crédit Républicain
de Paris. 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 crowd in Las Vegas.
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 interrogate the Four Horsemen but release them
when no explanation can be found. Dylan meets Thaddeus Bradley, a former
magician who makes money by revealing the secrets behind other
magicians' tricks. Thaddeus was in the audience and deduced that the
Horsemen replaced the money weeks before and manipulated the audience's
perception of current events, the fake money notes in the bank vault at Crédit Républicain having been counterfeited on flash paper.
Dylan, Alma, and Thaddeus attend the next performance in New Orleans.
The group's finale involves them stealing roughly $140 million from
Tressler's bank account and distributing it to the audience, composed of
people whose insurance claims had been denied or reduced by Tressler's
company. Dylan attempts to arrest the Four Horsemen, but they escape
with help from hypnotised audience members. An infuriated Tressler hires
Thaddeus to expose and humiliate the Horsemen in their next
performance. Later, while researching the Four Horsemen's background,
Alma learns about rumors of a secret society of magicians called "The
Eye", who steal from the rich and powerful to give to the needy, and
suggests to a sceptical Dylan the case might be tied to a magician named
Lionel Shrike, whom Thaddeus had exposed 40 years earlier and who was
so embarrassed that he undertook a dangerous underwater stunt involving a
safe, and accidentally drowned.
The Horsemen are located in New York, but they escape during the raid
to arrest them; however, Jack is presumed dead when his car crashes and
bursts into flames 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 Lionel Shrike died in. They perform their one
last show at 5 points
during which they seemingly vanish into thin air, transforming into
loads of money that is showered on the crowd. The money turns out to be a
forgery and the real money is found stashed in Thaddeus's Range Rover.
Thaddeus is then assumed to be the fifth Horseman and is arrested,
although he claims that he was framed.
Dylan visits Thaddeus in his cell, where Thaddeus explains that the
only way the safe could have been removed was if Jack was still alive,
but they would have also needed an inside man. Thaddeus realizes that
Dylan is the fifth Horseman when Dylan disappears from the locked cell
and reappears outside it. Dylan tells Thaddeus he wants him to spend the
rest of his life in jail and leaves as Thaddeus asks why he did it. The
Horsemen are now rejoined by Jack, whose death had been staged. They
finally meet their benefactor and are surprised to find it is Dylan. He
welcomes them into "The Eye."
Later, on the Pont des Arts
in France, Alma is met by Dylan who reveals himself to be the son of
Lionel Shrike, the magician who drowned years ago. He masterminded and
designed the Horsemen plot to obtain revenge on those involved:
Thaddeus, 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. Alma, however, decides not to turn him
in. Alma takes a lock and a key that Dylan magically produces as he
proclaims, "One more secret to lock away." After Alma locks the lock on a
chain fence with all of the locks that have been locked there over the
years, she throws the key into the seine.
After the beginning of the credits roll in, it is seen that 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 Merritt and ask him for his individual
card to open the boxes, but he had lost the cards.
Cast
- Jesse Eisenberg - J. Daniel Atlas
- Mark Ruffalo - Dylan Rhodes
- Woody Harrelson - Merritt McKinney
- Isla Fisher - Henley Reeves
- Dave Franco - Jack Wilde
- Michael Caine - Arthur Tressler
- Morgan Freeman - Thaddeus Bradley
- Michael Kelly - Agent Fuller
- David Warshofsky - Cowan
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