More Oceans Eleven than Agatha Christie, this mystery thriller is about a team of translators who are called to a high-security bunker to translate a long-awaited third book in a bestselling series - think Dragon Tattoo, I think - and even though there are megabucks at stake - at least a billion apparently - the guns and knives that end up being waved about in the underground facility, and the physical violence metered out by Russian thug security staff and by a bonkers publisher-entrepreneur never feels warranted, in part because the all-important emotional lynchpin of the story is withheld, kept from viewers until the final scene by which time it is too late: by then, most will be fed up with the Now You See Me nonsense.
★★☆☆☆
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