Back at it again, the horsemen (Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson and Dave Franco) are recruited by a tech genius for the biggest heist at all. But first, they’ll have to succumb to a girl named Lula (Lizzy Caplan) being added into their magical mischief. And Woody, apparently has an evil twin brother who behaves half Richard Simmons and half Siegfried… or is it Roy?
But magic is about controlling perception. Nothing is truly certain in this film that revolves more around cool scenes more so than plot, except that Detective Dylan Rhodes (Mark Ruffalo) has a deep vendetta against the man (Morgan Freeman) responsible for the death of his father, Lionel Shrive, a once famous magician. Ruffalo’s emotional flaws help the film’s plot. He has a need to save the Horsemen. But what if they don’t need saving? It seems to be the only semblance of storyline that follows us through all the hocus pocus, that eventually becomes polluting.
Michael Caine and Daniel Radcliffe join forces as the evil villains, but no such luck, that in their bag full of tricks, they would all just disappear. Somehow the film doesn’t earn its magic moments. 2 ½ tiaras