Now You See Me: Now You Don't

Magicians with CGI

Since this review is getting hammered for not accounting for Ariana Greenblatt's unrealistic girl ass-kicking, I took another look and have to say maybe I've been too forgiving on the girl action stuff. Plus, Ariana has a one hell of a resume full of ultra-woke films. I'm looking at you, Barbie and Borderlands. So I take it back.

I missed the first two films, likely because I don't dig magic. Like, a magician will use anything they can to trick their audience, including CGI. Just like in this film! Fortunately, my somewhat dislike for magic didn't keep me from watching this. I didn't know anything about the gang, what they did or even that they were actually magicians. Can't say I even heard of the first films in this franchise. Strange.

Now You See Me: Now You Don't is kind of a fun movie and I liked the crazy overarching trickery plot that went on. Woody Harrelson is cool, but I kind of felt bad for him in this movie since it seemed like he didn't really fit the role. Maybe he's running out of opportunities. Jesse Eisenberg isn't my cup of tea, but he fits nicely into the fast talking role he plays, so that's cool.

Another unneeded sequel ruining a good name. This is just an attempt to keep these movies going for the gen z crowd. There are 3 new young characters introduced to replace the originals. 1 black male, 1 white male and 1 Spanish mixed half n half female. So DEI. They are annoying and unlikable. Everything they do is obvious and unrealistic, they aren't sneaky and stealthy. All the tricks are CG this time and look bad and take you right out of any plausibility they originals had. Then there's the woke. The first scene has the gen z 3 as I will call them steeling from 3 white male crypto bros. The villain is a ridiculous nasty girlboss sounded by beta males. Her accent and performance are hilariously bad. Lots of woke social justice comments thrown around throughout the movie. The overall theme here is the gen z 3 are better than the originals. The originals basically stand around the entire movie while they do everything and think of everything. This is a staple of woke replacement. Introduce new amazing character that you prop up while dragging down the originals by making them stupid and unneeded. I would bet they are planning another one with only the new characters. The villains family history is those pesky white supremacist Nazis again. They just had to have a scene with the midget 5 ft. 90lb female beating up and evading 3 large male police officers in an enclosed room. I made it through the entire thing but it is not a good movie. Can't really recommend this one.


Spoilers....



The big reveal is the new DEI black kid is the brother of the white Nazi descendant female. Turns out her Nazi father was banging the black housemaid and had a kid and she thought she killed them. Yes really. Also DEI brother is the genius mastermind who set the entire heist and revenge plan up. Now that he has his birthright back he's giving up the diamond and all assets and giving everything to the South African communities. Wow.