Now you see me - 2

[Enzo]

The wife loved the original, and now wanted to see this sequel just out.

If you liked the first one, this one ought to be OK. If you hated the first one, stay home from this.

We went to the nice Lay-Z-Boy chair theater, though even there, two and a half hours int the chair are stiffening.

And LOUD, they just can show movies unless they are deafening. Lots of subwoofer, so everything that makes noise has an underlying rumble going on, whether it would ever do that in real life or not.

Brief moments of relative quiet always precede the endless stream of deep reverberant drum hits. SO each one startles the ear. It is fatiguing. I doubt other movies are any different though. This one had a synthy droning score that just went on and on... for me anyway. Oh and more drum hits. COnstant disco drum hits. Lots of activity and motion, all of which had to have drum hits. I remember Van Helsing was two hours of constant explosions and screaming. This had fewer explosions, but plenty of loud bursts.

Plot? Not sure if it had one really. If you saw the first one, it is more stuff like that. Super elaborate illusions, both for audiences and of course for the groups covert shenanigans. Most of the old characters are back, a new young woman to replace the former main one. And a new main character enters mid movie.

Personally I think it was trying way to hard to be unpredictable and twisty. Trying to keep us guessing who is up to what and who is not what you think, and so on.

I don't regret seeing it, if nothing else sitting in a theater fully clothed to see a movie is a novelty to me. But I wasn't blown away or anything. Lots of action and things going on. Like the first one, there is a sort of Mission Impossible sense to it.

[Lance]

We liked the first one okay. I'll look forward to this one making its way to HBO or Starz.

[Lianachan]

I wasn't a fan of the first one, so I'll take your advice and skip this. I'll probably watch it on TV some time, but can't imagine I'll be going out of my way to catch it.

[tubeswell]

Thanks for that Enzo. I kind of think I vaguely remember seeing the 1st movie. Your review has saved me the bother of googling it to spike my memory.

[Enzo]

I thought as I was sitting there that this would have been much better in my underwear, stretched out on the couch under a blanket at home.