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It’s significantly longer than its predecessor, running over two hours. The first film took a short detour to lớn Paris, but otherwise stayed in the States; Now You See Me 2 jumps from America, to china (in an obvious effort khổng lồ court the Asian market), and finally khổng lồ England. The plot boasts higher stakes. Its melee of characters has grown khổng lồ include a hammy new villain, played by Daniel Radcliffe. & Woody Harrelson is back, playing not one, but two characters … they’re twins.
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Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg và Dave Franco, as the three other magicians that biến hóa the Four Horsemen – David Copperfield’s answer to lớn Robin Hood’s Merry Men – also give it their all. The same goes for Mark Ruffalo, as the Horsemen’s boss, who appears khổng lồ have walked in from the phối of Spotlight, forcefully emoting his way through the whole parade. It’s unfortunate then that Ed Solomon và Peter Chiarelli’s screenplay underserves them completely by not bothering with any semblance of character development.
Instead we’re treated lớn a series of gotcha stunts, courtesy of the quartet, who are still on the run from the feds, one year after outwitting the FBI và enacting revenge against magic debunker Thaddeus Bradley (Morgan Freeman). They resurface for a comeback performance to lớn expose the wrongdoings of a magnate, only to fall into a trap orchestrated by Walter Mabry (Radcliffe), a tech prodigy who forces them into pulling off a seemingly impossible heist.
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Incoming director Jon M Chu (best known for making the second và third Step Up dance films) is a visibly slick choreographer: he stages a grand finale in London on New Year’s Eve with impressive precision. But his skills and a willing cast can’t overcome a story that stubbornly refuses to lớn embrace its inherent dumbness in favour of pointless convolutions. Where’s the fun in that?