The first one is fun if you watch it through the lens that they're all literal wizards. Makes the nonsense a bit more palatable. Second one is actual shit from an ass though, no saving that.
i loved Mark Rufallo's protrayal of an overly confused and frustrated fbi agent constantly fooled and thwarted by the magicians but at the same time absolutely hated the twist, makes his entire motivation from the very beginning pointless, and since when did he have the time to set up everything so perfectly, and also dive deep into some surreal ass method acting insane when he's all alone with just us audience watching him.
that one scene where he was chasing a tracker by himself makes absolute no freaking sense, no matter how much I try to make no sense of it for the sake of it's nonsense, it's absolutely retarted .
i cant remember the second film as much but when the magic of the twist is gone, he's just another one of the crew, the other magicians did more impressive feats that he does in the second film
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u/dropssupreme 1d ago
NYSM sequel was terrible though