Official Australian release date: 13/11/25. Viewed: 17/11/25.
Director: Ruben Fleischer
Actors: Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, Dominic Sessa
Genre: Thriller / Mystery
Rating: M
‘Now You See Me: Now You Don’t’ is the third entry in the “lets-make-magic-cool”
series, coming 9 years after the 2nd film, and reuniting Daniel
(Eisenberg), Merritt (Harrelson), Henley (Fisher) & Jack (Franco) – “the
Horsemen”, as well as a nice cameo from Thaddeus (Freeman). Pretty good to get
so many of an ensemble back together after 12 years! The intro/set-up to get
them together also introduces the next-gen of Bosco (Sessa), June (Greenblatt)
& Charlie (Smith) and is done well.
The plot this time is the original Horsemen and the new 3
being tasked with taking down the corrupt South African diamond company, led by
Veronika Vanderberg (Pike), who has a lot of fun with the role and plays it
with the right amount of deranged, including the accent. There’s a few good heists,
fights, escapes and car chases, as well as some Bond-like country-hopping – France,
Belgium, UAE. The scenes with Freeman at the historical magician chateau are
pretty fun.
Feels like a lower-stakes ‘Mission: Impossible’. It definitely
helped that I watched the first 2 movies a day before seeing this, so it was pretty
fresh. Although, I’m sure it still works if you only have vague recollections
of the original. It’s pretty quick (110min), not too serious, semi-predictable,
with a minor-twist-ending.
Overall: Fun, familiar and enjoyable
Gav’s Rating: 3.5 stars
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