After working a long and stressful week, this Saturday I decided to treat myself to a movie. I mean, I haven’t been to the movie theaters so I said, what the heck? Now, I was originally going to go see that new “Fate of the Furious” movie. I mean fast cars, hot girls, explosions. How could I pass up on that, right? But unfortunately I didn’t go see "Fate of the Furious," and went to go see the movie “Sleight” instead, and you know what? It was the best decision I made all weekend.

So basically the movie “Sleight” is about a young street magician named Bo who hustles doing magic tricks and sells drugs on the side, just to be able to support him and his little sister. But when he comes across a drug deal that goes bad, he is then being hunted down by his former drug dealer boss. He has to use magic tricks and his smarts to find a way to get out of the drug world and get out of town in one piece. Now, I know this may sound like another story we’ve all seen before, but it’s not. This movie comes across the art of magic in no other way we thought possible.

You see, the way this movie is different from any other movie about magic is because he actually uses science to perfect it (spoiler alert). The main character is a genius and he uses his intellect to figure out a way to manipulate energy and have people believe that it is magic. The trailer doesn’t really reveal this so you go in thinking that he has super powers or something. But once you see how he does it, suddenly you're pulled into the story of the movie even more. The cast did a terrific job and for a low budget movie, it was very well directed. Overall, I think this is a movie that anyone can enjoy and should go check out this weekend. Peace.