Picking up where the original Now You See Me left off, the horsemen are in hiding and working on a project (upon request of The Eye) but without any real details to understand what they are doing. This film, instead of being about a heist, is really about the magicians and the art of magic. The horsemen, in the original, took down an insurance magnate as a personal vendetta. Now for payback, and payback of payback, and ... well you get the picture. The reason this is such a better film is that we are brought behind the camera to see how the magic is done. And this reveal is actually an important part of the plot, so it doesn't seem false. It's not big action, so it probably doesn't play as well as other summer films, but I like the clever plot, the tricks and reveal, and Ruffalo, Eisenberg, Harrelson, Radcliffe make a great cast.
4 stars (out of 5)
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