Monday, June 13, 2016

Now You See Me 2 Review

What could go wrong with making a sequel no one asked for to a movie that no one ever talks about? Surprisingly it didn't go that bad. At least I enjoyed Now You See Me 2 more than I thought I would.

Now You See Me 2 is the sequel to the 2013 magician heist movie Now You See Me. The plot of the sequel is all over the place just like the first one so I won't go into the details. This movie moves from location to location around the world with new developments taking place at each stop. Good guys become bad guys and bad guys become good guys. At times this is fun because you don't always know what will happen next, but at other times it can be fairly predictable. Now You See Me 2 does flow at a quick pace and I was never bored while watching it. There are action scenes that are fun to watch even if they are extremely unrealistic. The best scene in the entire movie was one where the Four Horsemen are trying to steal a computer chip with security guards all around them. The techniques used to move the chip from person to person without getting caught was extremely fun to watch.

I went into Now You See Me 2 with very low expectations, but there were still things that bothered me. One was the reveal of one of the characters having a twin. The way the actor played that role was extremely annoying and in the long run the character was not needed at all. They could have completely removed them from the story and the movie would have ended the same way. I also never really cared for the story as a whole, mainly because it was all over the place. If they would have removed a few of the twists and tightened up the story I would have enjoyed the journey a lot more. Also it was annoying that one character that I really enjoyed from the first movie was never mentioned at all in this movie.

Now You See Me 2 is a movie that wasn't needed. No one out there was begging for this movie to be made. Surprisingly though, this movie wasn't that bad. I was never bored and some of the action is fun as long as you don't over think it. In a few months, if you are looking for a movie to rent and you saw Now You See Me, you can't go wrong with renting Now You See Me 2.



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