10 Terrible Movies That Tricked You Into Thinking They're Good

10. Now You See Me

It's quite fitting that Now You See Me, a movie about a team of magicians who pull off elaborate bank heists, is something of an elaborate magic trick itself.

Directed with undeniable slickness by Louis Leterrier, this heist-actioner is nevertheless as style-over-substance as cinema gets.

From the glossy cinematography to the snappy editing, this is a film that presents itself as two steps ahead of the audience at all times, no matter that it's actually a depressingly shallow piece of work lacking in even a single truly impressive or plausible on-screen magic trick.

There's an unintended meta layer to this movie, that the production is itself a smoke-and-mirrors act, attempting to compensate for a profoundly not-smart, regularly stupid script - punctuated by an inane twist ending - with a battery of neat visuals.

And it evidently worked - despite mixed reviews Now You See Me grossed over $350 million globally against a mere $75 million budget, leading to a sequel which bafflingly repeated a similar level of success.