Now You See Me 2

The arena-filling magicians with a penchant for robbing the super-rich to refund their audiences return for another round of digitally finessed illusion in this bustling caper sequel. Since its predecessor revealed that Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson and compadres were unwittingly in the employ of moonlighting FBI agent Mark Ruffalo, where next for the so-called Four Horsemen? Well, Lizzy Caplan takes over from Isla Fisher as the token feisty female member, the gang find themselves tangling with evil tech-magnate Daniel Radcliffe, while the previous movie's veteran illusionist-debunker Morgan Freeman plots his revenge from a prison cell. First-time around, the trickery was still fresh enough to dazzle. But there's too much convoluted exposition to get through this time around, and when the magicians actually get to strut their stuff, their tricks are so patently CGI special effects that any sense of magic is lost.