[C+Film Critic] Now You See Me 2

Joelle 2021-10-20 17:41:32

If you have seen one of Christopher Nolan’s masterpieces "Fatal Magic", you must remember that every magic show has three steps-the first step is to "replace the real with the fictitious": the magician shows a real Something, a deck of cards, a bird or a person, let you look at such a thing, ask you to examine it, and see that it is indeed true, which is extraordinary. However, there must be a false one. The second step is "stealing the sky and changing the day". The magician uses this common thing to make breathtaking performances. Now you want to find the secret, but you can't find it. Because you are not really watching at all, you don't really want to know, you want to be deceived. But you won’t applaud, because it’s not enough to make things invisible, you have to change them back. So magic has a third step, the hardest part, we call it "turning decay into magic". Compared with the two sets of Torture Drama "Deadly Magic" and "Magician" in 2006, the other two sets of magic movies "Super Magician" and "Now You See Me" in 13 years have come up with a strategy on the highly entertaining Broad Avenue. Horse galloping. The former, as one of the last few comedy films of Steve Carell at the peak of the season, has a gimmick in which the former comedy king, Kim Carrey, played friendly, but ended up with a mediocre performance. Except Dick Jock and Olivia Wilde, who could not be found even with a flashlight in the past, can only make people feel infinitely emotional after the anti-guest-oriented "Fake God" 10 years ago, how can it be even more inspiring? That's it. Although there is also a Chinese translation that does not know whether it is a sacred stroke or a habitual spoiler, "Nowadays Devil Thieves" has not received the same favor and praise as "Inception". After all, the French director Louis Lightrell is a mediocre CG user, except for the seemingly cool but empty action scenes, it really can't make people invest too much emotion. It's not right to let Li Rengang or Chen Musheng do Du Qifeng's work. A good magician will never reveal the secret behind the magic. The creation of suspense is crucial, which also makes the three steps, one climax, and the five steps and one ending of "Now You See Me" have a certain effect. Although the ups and downs of the story are even more nonsense, and good magic performances have become new magic because of various performance effects that cannot be achieved without CG. However, compared with the ending which is unfinished but still a bit interesting, the emptying of the head is lowered. Age, if you are honestly treated as a monkey, you can still give it a try. In fact, most of the charm of "Now You See Me" is not in magic, nor in the story, but in characters with different personalities and quite compatible. Talking about chattering, spitting girls, old gangsters, little fresh meat, and making FBI all show their talents to pit the rich and the cat and mouse playing house, it is much more beautiful than the fake magic show made by CG. But unfortunately, this sequel three years later has forgotten the few highlights and essence of the previous, and at the same time completely lost the charm of the characters. Whether it is a newcomer or an old one, all are sleepwalking, and don’t even have suspense. The overall quality of the clichéd storyline has fallen by abruptly, and the procrastination is meaningless-you know, "Now You See Me" itself is not much higher. As another quasi-money laundering blockbuster created by Lionsgate + Summit Entertainment + domestic production companies' large sums of money, "Now You See Me 2" is likely to be better than "War of Gods: Power". "Eye of the Eye" has better performance in the mainland-after all, it is announced that it will gain a bit of wisdom, after all, there is an indifferent Macau background and an unnecessary Jay Chou-but this does not make a difference for the bad movie itself. Cent. People and old people are all sleepwalking, and with the cliché plot that doesn't even have any suspense, the overall quality can be described as plummeting, and the procrastination is meaningless-you know, "Now You See Me" itself is not much higher. As another quasi-money laundering blockbuster created by Lionsgate + Summit Entertainment + domestic production companies' large sums of money, "Now You See Me 2" is likely to be better than "War of Gods: Power". "Eye of the Eye" has a better performance in the Mainland-after all, it is announced that it will gain a bit of wisdom, after all, there is an indifferent Macau background and an unnecessary Jay Chou-but this does not make a difference for the bad movie itself. Cent. People and old people are all sleepwalking, and with the cliché plot that doesn't even have any suspense, the overall quality can be described as plummeting, and the procrastination is meaningless-you know, "Now You See Me" itself is not much higher. As another quasi-money laundering blockbuster created by Lionsgate + Summit Entertainment + domestic production companies' large sums of money, "Now You See Me 2" is likely to be better than "War of Gods: Power". "Eye of the Eye" has better performance in the mainland-after all, it is announced that it will gain a bit of wisdom, after all, there is an indifferent Macau background and an unnecessary Jay Chou-but this does not make a difference for the bad movie itself. Cent.

Encouragement teacher Zhu Haowei, after playing Paramount’s few IP "Special Forces", returned to the top entertainment base of the youth theme, after "Dancing Out of My Life", he will soon play again in a thunderous manner. The hard-won original theme "Now You See Me". One year after the story took over the first movie, with no changes in the screenwriter team, Now You See Me 2 tried to find the chic and suave, as well as the noise and absurdity of the past. From the perspective of the film, it is difficult to say how much the previous goal has been completed, but the latter goal can be regarded as an overfulfillment of the task. Liz Capan, who replaced Isla Fischer, assembled all the character settings of the other three knights with one person. It is maddening words, empty head, like showing off and showing off. It is the character of the film. The biggest failure. On the contrary, Woody Harrison’s twin brothers are one of the few or even the only bright spots in this sequel. As for Morgan Freeman's whitewashing, the reversal of several secondary characters is not convincing at all. On the whole, there is a lack of interaction between the characters, and the dialogue and plot can be described as arbitrary and unorganized, which is extremely absurd. "Now You See Me 2" turns the tone of the movie from a unique magic (French) fight to a ubiquitous international spy war thriller. The few main scenes in the film are extremely lacking in strength, and the theft scene is like An inferior copy of the "Twelve Arhats" series. What is even more terrifying is the weird father-son relationship between Daniel Radcliffe and Michael Caine, which seems to add no charm to this revenge story without tension and suspense. After breaking away from the established role in the early 20th century, Ilya Wood, who is also sorry, and the perverted killer in "Sin City", is worth mentioning, and Daniel Radcliffe can only wait for another movie. More challenging works of "Woman in Black" appeared. Compared with the previous episode, the joining of legendary magician David Copperfield did not bring any freshness and excitement to Now You See Me 2 It is clean, except for the inexplicable CG "magic", there is no suspense, no surprises can be produced, destroy and abandon the core concept of magic in the entire series: don't believe that seeing is believing. All the hard work in the sequel comes down to completing the pre-determined difficult task. In this case, any mistakes will make the movie difficult to achieve the desired effect-and "Now You See Me 2" does not lack errors. In short, fans of the first movie may be dizzy at "Now You See Me 2", while other viewers are like watching a street magician with inferior tactics picking up his wallet. There is no fun. Word.

Generally, for magic and the magical bridges in movies, the audience’s response should be "How is this done?" However, "Now You See Me 2" deprives the reason for this reaction, not because the audience already knows the answer. It is the poor performance of the film that makes the audience not even willing to ask questions. Boring, clichéd, and disappointing, this is another Chinese investment, the indecent performance of a Hollywood movie in which Chinese framing and Chinese actors participate. And there are many such movies in the past, and there will be no less in the future. If some people think that reducing risk is more important than a good story, investing in IP is more important than good people, and money is more important than a good reputation, then it will not be strange to be verbally criticized and the market coldly treated, and don’t Haw crooked. After all, it’s me who does it, and it’s me who does death, right.

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Now You See Me 2 quotes

  • J. Daniel Atlas: A magician's greatest strength is an empty fist.

    Dylan Rhodes: That is to say, the ability to convince a crowd that something is inside when really there is nothing

  • Agent Cowan: You know what I think now? I think you're smart. But you want everybody else to *think* that you're an idiot.