Reviewed By: Popcornicus
I did watch the first two movies in the Now You See Me franchise and I didn’t hate them. They weren’t great but they had something to offer. Sadly that wasn’t so much the case this time around. I’m no hater of magic – it can certainly be fun in the right circumstances or if you’re in the mood for it, so I was more than willing to go in excited to see what they had cooked up. Unfortunately what they had cooked up were a whole bunch of unlikable characters and terrible dialogue.
Don’t get me wrong, the cast is terrific. There are a ton of great actors in this film – it’s almost a wonder you could get such a lackluster movie with so much talent. This one sees the Horsemen reuniting around a new group of young magicians to steal the Hope diamond from a diamond heiress and expose her criminal enterprise.
It kind of has the feel of a Mission Impossible mixed with Ocean’s Eleven, only with none of the aspects that make those movies good. There is a lot of production and a decent amount of action but it all seems to cover up the fact that there’s no great story behind it. I think what I liked least about it were nearly all the characters. From the moment they meet the new young group of illusionists, they are oddly comfortable with each other. Some of them don’t like each other or argue right off the bat. Each one is entirely too arrogant. Nothing in the way they act or speak resembles a normal person. They’re also constantly performing for each other which seems strange and out of place.
Additionally, they all seem to have no care in the world for consequences or law enforcement. I’m not talking about just evading arrest, I mean outright fighting with them and doing whatever it takes to escape. Like sure, go ahead and punch a cop in the face, you can just escape later I guess. Seems that would be a good way to end your career for good, but none of these characters care about that. On top of that they are all somehow expertly trained fighters and action heroes, even the up-and-comers. It really just doesn’t make any sense.
The other main issue I had with this movie is how they treat the largest, most expensive diamond in the world as something you’d place on your mantle. There’s very minimal security to keep this thing safe. They have this huge diamond worth half a billion dollars just taken out of its glass box and tossed around. Even if you argue that might be plausible from the Horsemen’s side because they are stealing it, there’s no way the hotel or the heiress would bring it out in the open as they do way too many times in this movie. Just pure nonsense.
If you’re willing to overlook some of the ridiculousness and just watch it for the action, you might enjoy this. It didn’t have a terrible ending and everything which got explained made things a little more tolerable, but by that point it was already too late. I don’t think I would say you definitely should not watch this movie, but be sure to tamper your expectations before you do.
Overall Verdict: An attempt was made at making this a fun and entertaining movie, but it ultimately falls flat. Even with all the production there are very few redeeming qualities. Go ahead and make this one disappear from your watch list.
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