Now You See Me: Now You Don't 2025 by AverageMansReviews

Now You See Me: Now You Don't 2025 by AverageMansReviews

Previous instalment: Now You See Me 2 2016 Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2025/10/now-you-see-me-2-2016-by.html

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/transformation/shooting/cutting/environmental/dismemberment/burning/references to Russia and Germany

The older generation meets the younger generation, meets the oldest generation: briefly; J. Daniel "Danny" Atlas [Jesse Eisenberg:] he is still the same Atlas that we left all those years ago, just older, he was at one time the leader of the now defunct the Four Horsemen, so he tracks down these 3 talented individuals such as June McClure [Ariana Greenblatt:] she is a very highly skilled lock picker and pickpocketer; their mission is to take down Veronika Vanderberg [Rosemary Pike:] she is a diamond merchant and money-laundering and finally on our travels we get to meet Thaddeus Bradley [Morgan Freeman:] he is a retired magician-turned-debunker, that has a long history with the Eye and the Four Horsemen.

Generally speaking: the framework pacing of this 112 minutes film is good; it does nicely roll along throughout this timeframe

Art, action and comedy; the art on these tricks or staged tricks such as the spinning location is of the highest order of excellence not only from a visual perspective, but also an execution. But there are some things I was not a fan of such as; the location text on screen and would someone like to tell me what the hell was going on with Vanderberg/Pike's make up regardless of what she was wearing be it at everyday clothing or/and dress up? Because I am not a make-up artist or anything like that, but even I found it messy as hell, one minute it is thin, the next minute it is heavy; then again I should point out I hate the usage of too much foundation and just for the record Pike is gorgeous woman, so they should have been highlighting  what was already naturally there, we have a location breakout with a dark comedy reference which starts and adds to the chaos.

Character developments, comedy and performances; the character developments are broadly speaking of a positive standard; ranging from good to masterfully engineered and everything in the middle, the comedy is likewise well thought out and executed; with one proviso for here and now and this instalment; it is perfectly timed to do this comedy generation age gap thing as it relates to the old school characters/performers and the new blood characters/performers; even though it builds fantastic chemistry between this cast. I stress doing an identical point in time, in another project won't have the same impact twice, yes absolutely if you want you can bring back the comedy style, but at the same time you have to show time has passed and it characters/performers have grown and the cast of performers just gel smoothly together.

This film receives: 9/10, this film was excellent after; after everything is said and done it rightly deserves this mark, it successfully melds old parts with new ones, the negatives I have already spoken about at some point or another in this content already and it leaves things ready for another instalment, even though I have said this and there is an extra scene at the end of this movie; this is the worst kept secret in modern times of cinema, based on the fact two or three days before this film was released, you could accidentally put a 4 instead of a 3 into a well-known search engine and could find out that there is movement of a fourth instalment to this franchise.