Ok so Sleight is about a young guy who does magic on the streets, when he isn't selling drugs, apparently he needs to do that in order to look after his young sister as their parents have died and so he is on his own with her.
I do magic myself and so I must admit to only being interested in this in order to fill a need for me to watch magic performance, even whilst supposedly relaxing with a movie in a Sunday afternoon. So, did it fulfill even that simple remit and give me some good magic to watch?
No!
If you are into magic, or are a magician then do jot get any hope for seeing anything of value on this film. Even a simple Alex Elmsley 4 card trick is way beyond anything you'll see in this. For the simple reason that every time he is shown performing a trick it is of the variety that can only be done in movies - for example, at one point a girl holds a card up, at arms length, whilst he, the magician, stands back and definitely does not go anywhere near it. He asks her what it is and I think she says ace of spades and then shows it around to be exactly that. Then she holds it still at arms length and facing him in front of her when he waves his hand in her general direction albeit too far away to actually touch or influence the card in any way, he then smiles and says what is it now and she turns it to face her and it is now a totally different card even though if this was in real life it would simply not be possible for any magician to do. There are no real effects or tricks in this movie, just impossible things like that. So that was that as far as is a concerned. The magic parts of the film were totally rubbish and not worth even watching.
So did it deliver in other areas? The drug dealer life and the plot about the drug supplier being a total dick and someone who was a threat to our main character and his whole life?
Not really. It got boring. I don't want to give away spoilers w/o that's all I will say. In my opinion the drug dealing plot got boring and a bit silly. The electromagnet in the arm was kind of interesting, until it got silly.
This just wasn't really for me. Whilst I can appreciate that some films require the suspension of disbelief, which I did take part in for this movie, I found that the pay-off just wasn't there. I had to suspend my disbelief that this movie was boring me to tears, which was more difficult.
All the above notwithstanding, I did enjoy relaxing to this film and did not find it offensive or difficult in any way. It was easy on the eyes and the mind. It flowed quite nicely from beginning to end. A good pace where nothing was too fast or rushed. I think I went into this thinking it was something different to what I got served up. So I couldn't help feeling disappointed but over all it wasn't THAT bad.
4/10.
I do magic myself and so I must admit to only being interested in this in order to fill a need for me to watch magic performance, even whilst supposedly relaxing with a movie in a Sunday afternoon. So, did it fulfill even that simple remit and give me some good magic to watch?
No!
If you are into magic, or are a magician then do jot get any hope for seeing anything of value on this film. Even a simple Alex Elmsley 4 card trick is way beyond anything you'll see in this. For the simple reason that every time he is shown performing a trick it is of the variety that can only be done in movies - for example, at one point a girl holds a card up, at arms length, whilst he, the magician, stands back and definitely does not go anywhere near it. He asks her what it is and I think she says ace of spades and then shows it around to be exactly that. Then she holds it still at arms length and facing him in front of her when he waves his hand in her general direction albeit too far away to actually touch or influence the card in any way, he then smiles and says what is it now and she turns it to face her and it is now a totally different card even though if this was in real life it would simply not be possible for any magician to do. There are no real effects or tricks in this movie, just impossible things like that. So that was that as far as is a concerned. The magic parts of the film were totally rubbish and not worth even watching.
So did it deliver in other areas? The drug dealer life and the plot about the drug supplier being a total dick and someone who was a threat to our main character and his whole life?
Not really. It got boring. I don't want to give away spoilers w/o that's all I will say. In my opinion the drug dealing plot got boring and a bit silly. The electromagnet in the arm was kind of interesting, until it got silly.
This just wasn't really for me. Whilst I can appreciate that some films require the suspension of disbelief, which I did take part in for this movie, I found that the pay-off just wasn't there. I had to suspend my disbelief that this movie was boring me to tears, which was more difficult.
All the above notwithstanding, I did enjoy relaxing to this film and did not find it offensive or difficult in any way. It was easy on the eyes and the mind. It flowed quite nicely from beginning to end. A good pace where nothing was too fast or rushed. I think I went into this thinking it was something different to what I got served up. So I couldn't help feeling disappointed but over all it wasn't THAT bad.
4/10.