Now You See Me 2
Image: Merritt McKinney (Woody Harrelson) and Jack Wilder (Dave Franco)
Now You See Me 2 is the second instalment from Jon. M Chu and is set three years after the first film. The illusionist superhero team, The Four Horsemen are back to pull off another great deceit, this time aimed at a technology organisation headed by Walter Mabry (Daniel Radcliffe).
The film has an all-star cast including Mark Ruffalo, who plays duplicitous FBI agent Dylan Rhodes; Morgan Freeman as Thaddeus Bradley, a rival/friend of Ruffalo’s deceased father; and as the only change to the band of horsemen from the prequel Lizzy Caplan replaces Isla Fisher, joining Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson.
Overall the film lacks creativity, the plot is in two seemingly incongruous parts – a story from Dylan Rhodes’ past as an uninspiring and unconvincing double agent, and the horsemen’s attempt to convince the public of their benevolence through grandiose public acts. There’s some entertaining scenes of magic and illusion, but not much else to take away. (JF)
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BY JORDAN FERMANIS
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