One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public’s adulation with their mind-bending spectacles, the Four Horsemen resurface only to find themselves face to face with a new enemy who enlists them to pull off their most dangerous heist yet.
The film is mainly horseplay, wasted motion, and talk, talk, talk, with a few good action scenes ...
– Matt Zoller Seitz,
RogerEbert.com,
10 Jun 2016
rotten:
And of course, there's no danger of mistaking computer-enhanced trickery for actual sleight of hand, so even the modest but honest pleasure provided by quality card work is compromised.
– Matthew Lickona,
San Diego Reader,
10 Jun 2016
rotten:
Based solely on merit, Now You See Me 2 is a sequel that should never have been made.
– James Berardinelli,
ReelViews,
10 Jun 2016
rotten:
The movie offers neither the astonishment of the magicians' artistry nor a dramatic view of how they do it.
– Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
13 Jun 2016
rotten:
But very little about this hollow sequel to 2013's heist thriller Now You See Me feels mysterious; its biggest set-pieces will make viewers ask not "Whoa, how'd they do that?" but "Wait, huh?"