'I can actually do that, but then the one time I missed, I was like, 'Ah, that's definitely going to be the (take) they use.' Failure is always funnier than success, particularly when it comes to this character.' 'The one thing I can kind of do is the bit I screw up in the first scene,' says Radcliffe, 26, flicking an imaginary card from one hand to the other. And in heist thriller Now You See Me 2 (in theaters Friday), he disappears into the role of a bratty billionaire who tricks a group of master illusionists into pulling off a heist.īut in reality, the impish Brit has a far less impressive sleight of hand. So there’s that.NEW YORK - You'd think Daniel Radcliffe would know all there is to know about magic.Īfter all, he spent a decade playing boy wizard Harry Potter in the film adaptations of J.K. The movie’s directed by Jon M Chu and arrives on June 10. Bored and lifeless versions of Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Mark Ruffalo and Dave Franco have returned, with newcomers Jay Chou and Sanaa Lathan. It has something to do with stealing the key to every computer system in the planet. His plan sounds like something a four-year-old came up with. Which brings us to Daniel Radcliffe and his thinly veiled villainous d-bag. It’s just lazy and outright greedy attempt to churn out nonsense just to make a profit.

Sure, China’s box-office is booming and many Hollywood tentpoles are filming there to get in on that racket, but all that does for this movie is make it seem even more unnecessary than before. And that isn’t what this series was supposed to be about.Īnd then there’s the blatantly cynical decision to go and shoot the thing in China. It does, however, look like these guys have actual superpowers. Which brings us to another big problem with Now You See Me 2: This no longer looks like plain old magic tricks.

From what we are shown here, her only power seems to be conjuring up doves. While Isla Fisher’s replacement seemed like a minor issue initially, this new trailer doesn’t make any effort to introduce Lizzy Caplan’s character, thereby failing to back up the movie’s decision to add her to the team. And this trailer begins with two of them. Tired jokes can be funny, but there’s nothing unfunnier than when they don’t land.

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