The new movie "Now You See Me: Now You Don't" is the third and hopefully last in this movie franchise, the first two: Now You See Me (2013) and Now You See Me 2 (2016). In order to be relevant in Hollywood and make enough money to survive in California, one of the most expensive areas in the world, an actor has to keep making movies and money in order to afford the costs of living in a state where almost all of the movies are made. So making money over quality is a reality of life as an actor in Hollywood to much of the time.
Unfortunately great stories and screenplays are few and far between and this third installment was written and greenlighted only to make money and not to put out a quality film. The plot makes almost no sense, and just jumps from one unexplained scene to another one for two hours entirely for the purpose of showing some magic and misdirection, most of which is either impossible or ridiculous. The reason why screenwriting is so difficult is that the story has to make sense, action and scenes have to be explained and predefined, along with continuity throughout the entire story. This film has none of these essential ingredients.
The original cast returns in this movie, Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Mark Ruffalo, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco and Morgan Freeman. For this third film, new cast members have been added, which will probably mean there is a long term plan to extend this nightmare into new movies. The new cast includes Ariana Greenblatt, Dominic Sessa and Henry Fisher as they all try to stop a criminal mastermind Veronika Vanderberg played by Rosamund Pike from using Diamonds to launder money for other master criminals. On top of this being an overall bad movie, it is slow and very boring in too many areas, making the audience hope that it will all be over soon.
The Rotten Tomatoes rating is a too high 60%, with my rating around 20%, hoping that this will be end to a pretty stupid series of movies trying to be about magicians solving crimes.
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