2/26/2024 0 Comments Now you see me card sceneLike the last film, it has a lot of plot-so much that after a while it might as well not have any at all. ![]() The film is mainly horseplay, wasted motion, and talk, talk, talk, with a few good action scenes, the best of which involves the main characters passing a card back and forth in a laboratory, and enough smart-alecky banter between skilled actors that the time passes painlessly enough. It’s up to you."Now You See Me 2," which reunites the crusading magicians for another heist/adventure, offers more of the same narrative shortcuts, substituting extensive flashbacks, whirling camerawork and digital effects for a truly magical sensibility. It’s just a little trickery, and you can either buy in or opt out. What more do you want? A viable story? Some forethought? Common sense? I mean – what do you expect here? This isn’t magic. What do you mean you’re not convinced? I said ta-da, dammit. It’s like me suddenly telling you that I’ve been writing a Finding Dory review this whole time…TADA! And this, my friends, was grade F deli meat, straight from Oscar Mayer himself. To set this up, a script has to leave breadcrumbs, it has to set it up, carefully, craftilly, but dutifully. Gotcha! Except the script does absolutely nothing to earn this. Now they seek to play one on us, and a two minute monologue discredits everything that’s come before and tells us we’ve been played for fools and what we thought was happening really wasn’t. We, the audience, have spent 2 hours watching the 4 horsemen play tricks on their audiences, their enemies, their government, and each other. Superman).īut the greatest crime this film commits is its end. And the tricks are not replicable in the real world, so Now You See Me 2 is just another CGI-bloated entry into the super hero genre, only these heroes are super lame and the costumes even lamer (though Eisenberg’s sporting a more Lex Luther-appropriate hairstyle than he did in Batman v. There is no fun in watching card tricks when you know the cards were added digitally, after the fact. Definitely not the magic of film making, because this guy was seemingly made in a vacuum of personality. There is no “magic” is Now You See Me 2, which is a real tragedy in this renaissance of practical effects, unless you count the “magic” of CGI. Safe to say a sequel to this blip of filmdom is one trick I never saw coming, unlike all the tricks in the film, which I saw from a mile away. You can’t do that without consequences, so they’ve been in hiding this past year and are only revealing themselves in the sequel when their magical governing body, the Eye, calls on them to do so – for a very good cause, I’m sure. ![]() Jesse Eisenberg is joined by 3 other magicians (including a token girl!) to form the “4 horsemen” – the Robinhoods of the magic scene, they spent the first movie stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Or just because it has Jesse Eisenberg, who is quickly ascending my list of things to avoid. So I don’t rule Now You See Me out just because it has magic. ![]() But I’m half-willing to give it a go in the movies because while I also hate Nazis, I concede that some fairly wonderful movies have been made containing them. I’d rather not even walk by a street magician, if I can help it. I have to remind myself, with a shock, that some people actually pay to see magic, while I would gladly pay to not see it. I HATE hate it, the way I hate Nazis and speeding tickets and being tricked into eating vegetables. I hate the spectacle and the artifice and the hammy, tan people who “perform” it. Anything to distract myself, even Jesse Eisenberg doing “magic.” It’s amazing what you can get me to watch when I’m hurtling through space in a glorified tin can. I only saw the first Now You See Me (1) grudgingly, which is to say, on a plane.
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