Now You See Me 2
Summit Entertainment | Release Date: June 10, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
46
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Mixed or average reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
15
Negative:
8
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Arizona RepublicRandy CordovaJun 9, 2016
The heists are bigger, the illusions are flashier, and the pace is quicker. Even the cast is livelier and more fun. Perhaps best of all, the movie captures the first film’s twisty ability to twirl an audience around, so you’re never entirely sure what’s happened until everything is explained. Read full review
80
VarietyOwen GleibermanJun 1, 2016
Now You See Me 2 is more like a giddy piece of cheese from the ’80s, a chance to spend two more hours with characters we like, doing variations on the things that made us like them in the first place. The revisit, in this case, is well-earned. Read full review
80
TheWrapDave WhiteJun 1, 2016
Director Jon M. Chu has a lighter touch than “Now You See Me” director Louis Leterrier. The latter’s “Transporter” pedigree made sure there was plenty of rugged action, but Chu’s résumé boasts “Jem and the Holograms,” “G.I. Joe: Retaliation,” and more than one film in the “Step Up” franchise. The man knows his cartoons, and that’s a good thing. Read full review
75
St. Louis Post-DispatchCalvin WilsonJun 9, 2016
Working from a screenplay by Ed Solomon, director Jon M. Chu is more craftsman than poet, but the charismatic ensemble cast engages in the trickery with style. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyJun 8, 2016
Now You See Me 2 gets giddy on its own unreality. That sense of freewheeling excess extends from the chip heist — set in a metal-free clean room — to the nonstop contrivances and coincidences to the cast. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattJun 8, 2016
Jon M. Chu (several Step Up movies) has taken over directing duties from Louis Leterrier, and he has a lighter, goofier touch. He seems to get that the silliness is baked in. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Brad WheelerJun 9, 2016
In real life, of course, nobody can be hypnotized against their will. To be mesmerized is to willingly succumb. Just keep that in mind when you head off to see something like Now You See Me 2. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaJun 9, 2016
It's the magic of movies, not a movie that comes close to achieving real magic. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeMark FeeneyJun 9, 2016
“2” is as flashy and splashy as the original. Both also register right up there on the implausibility scale — that’s like the Richter scale, only with head scratching — but “2” has a lighter touch and more interesting settings. Macau and London, here we come. Read full review
63
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanJun 9, 2016
The film is, at times, almost sinfully fun, assuming you have a taste for self-indulgently logic-free hedonism. Read full review
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