Review | Master's Trick - Act 2

Master trick it was an interesting film. Despite some reservations, he managed to entertain and fell in favor with the public. Like everything in Hollywood, something that is successful cannot stop in the first feature and thus appears Master's Trick: The 2nd Act (Now You See Me 2), which focuses on explaining why the knight leader sought his revenge on his predecessor production.

Again investing in transforming the script into a great illusion, the plot begins explaining the childhood of Dylan Rhodes (Mark Ruffalo) and the reason for his hatred for Thadeus Bradley (Morgan Freeman) and from that point narrating how the knights are doing almost two years after the events of the first film. Now treated as a type of "Robin Hood", they still aim to expose fraud that harms the people. The group returns with Daniela Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg), Merritt remains (Woody Harrelson) and Jack (Dave Franco) and add Lizzy Caplan to take over the female part after leaving Isla Fisher, of which they do not bother to justify, dispensing only one sentence for that information.

The direction of Jon M. Chu, that replaces Louis Leterrier, invests even more in the big one. If in the first film the always moving moves did the visual trick, in the second it is even more evident. In fact, the whole long run tries to make everything bigger, the tricks are even more impossible, the action is more explored and even the number of places that the team visits increases. The production resembles the formula used in Fast and furious, replacing cars with magic.

And this excess is again what damages the feature. Master trick lost some of the public's attention by needing to chew the information for each illusion used and The 2nd Act, for having invested so much in grandeur, it needs this explanation even more. Even the clever ending trick manages to lose its excitement when the detailed explanation comes into play.

Regardless of errors, Master's Trick: The 2nd Act does not fail to entertain. Repeating the predecessor's strong cast and still including some interesting appearances, including the ironic role of Daniel Radcliffe, which idolizes technology and abhors everything that involves magic, the plot can be closed and well explained (save some classic scene errors that are captured by the most attentive eyes). With much more movement, the film has the potential to please those who would like to see the knights in action.