![]() Well, I don't mean to toot my own horn but I don't think I'm a stupid individual and I've seen thousands of movies.more than your average joe because I love movies. Reading some of the reviews on here, many of them "claim" that people with a low IQ dislike the film. It knows it's always being upstaged by the hocus-pocus of its own medium.I remember seeing the trailers for this and I thought it really looked great. Maybe that's why Now You See Me 2 can't slow down. Cinema is a grand magic act in its own right that never gives away its tricks – well, except in the director’s commentaries. It’s hard to dislike a movie that adds a curly-haired evil twin brother for Woody Harrelson.īut magic always feels a little redundant in the movies. It feels like a lost opportunity, because both films have a pleasant enough preposterousness. When everything is a manipulation – one illusion after another – nothing comes as a surprise. The movie, scripted by Ed Solomon, offers such a constant barrage of absurdly implausible tricks, followed by explanations of how they were done, that Now You See Me 2 feels like the work of a feverish, manic magician who can't stop pulling rabbits out of hats.Ĭhu, a veteran of multiple Justin Bieber documentaries and several Step Up films, cranks up the pace and never holds a shot for much longer than a second. In Now You See Me 2, their flashy return is spoilt by a wealthy tech whizz in hiding (Daniel Radcliffe), who constructs an elaborate revenge against the magicians that transports them around the globe to Macau, presumably for the purpose of drawing in Chinese moviegoers. In the world of Now You See Me, they are extravagantly (and bizarrely) famous, cheered by mobs on the streets and pursued in vain by the feds (Ruffalo plays the lead agent). When not trying to one-up each other’s tricks, the Horsemen perform feats of illusion that unmask real corruption. The Horsemen are like a fantasy imagined by David Copperfield, a co-producer whose illusions inspired the films. Isla Fisher’s escapologist Henley Reeves is missing from the sequel, replaced by new addition Lula May (Lizzy Caplan) whose sarcastic flare steals the movie. He is joined by Harrelson’s hypnotist and Dave Franco’s street magician. They are a group of magicians led – curiously, given the alternatives – by Jesse Eisenberg’s sleight-of-hand artist. The Four Horsemen, having gone into hiding following their Las Vegas exploits in the first film, have returned. ![]() They're perfect for fans of Ocean's Eleven who are looking for weaker filmmaking, a little less star power but a whole lot more playing cards. They are diverting and harmless – and the fate of the world, refreshingly, does not hang in the balance. They don’t get the chance to sink their teeth into anything much of substance, it’s true, but in the summertime you usually need to buy a ticket to a superhero movie to see such an ensemble.Īnd there's something almost quaint about the Now You See Me films. It is an odd assortment, but a talented one that includes heavyweights Woody Harrelson, Mark Ruffalo, Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine. The cast is one reason to catch Jon M Chu’s sequel to director Louis Leterrier’s surprise 2013 hit. Did you care that you saw it? Why did you see it? Is that why you look like you need a nap? Magician heist-thriller sequel Now You See Me 2 disappears not in puff of smoke, but in a hyper-kinetic blur of hectic plot mechanics, ceaselessly nattering characters and so many misdirections that the film's own direction apparently disappeared up someone's sleeve long ago. ![]() Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Daniel Radcliffe, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman
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