It"s no mystery that audiences are fans of heists: They"re thrilling, require delightful team-ups, and showcase clever problem solving that"s far more fun than any other fictionalized crime. Now, địa chỉ a dash of flashy, improbable magic to lớn the mix & you"ve got the "Now You See Me" movie series.

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Taking center stage are the Four Horseman, a group of performing Robin Hood-esque magicians that includes illusionist Daniel Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg), hypnotist Merritt McKinney (Woody Harrelson), and card trick specialist Jack Wilder (Dave Franco). The first film saw them steal from insurance businessman Arthur Tressler (Michael Caine) before being welcomed into a shadowy organization called The Eye và disappearing from the public.

"Now You See Me 2" finds the Four Horsemen a) down one Horseman as Isla Fisher, who played Henley Reeves, did not return for the sequel and b) in hiding, waiting for their leader, the FBI agent Dylan Rhodes (Mark Ruffalo), lớn give them a new mission. However, upon coming together with newcomer Lula (Lizzy Caplan) & enacting Dylan"s plan to lớn expose a CEO"s nefarious data mining, they"re kidnapped by said CEO"s supposedly dead ex-partner Walter Mabry (Daniel Radcliffe). He forces them lớn steal a special computer cpu with the power khổng lồ access any computer, but the Horsemen devise a clever plan to lớn expose him for his illegal power nguồn bid.


First off, the movie isn"t called the far more cheeky "...Now You Don"t" because of a kinh doanh decision that even the director didn"t agree with. Now, here"s the rest of that twisty ending explained.

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While the Horsemen theatrically explain their final trick khổng lồ a river-full of audience in the middle of the Thames, "Now You See Me 2" contains a few more twists after their cunning win over Walter & his father, Arthur Tressler, who were really just out for revenge over the events of the first movie. However, it"s the very premise of the previous installment that gets turned on its head in these final moments.


At the end of "Now You See Me," the entire film is revealed khổng lồ be Dylan"s elaborate revenge plot khổng lồ frame up the magic-debunker Thaddeus Bradley (Morgan Freeman) for stealing because he goaded Dylan"s father into a deadly escape performance 30 years prior. In "Now You See Me 2," Dylan reluctantly seeks the now-incarcerated Thaddeus" help in rescuing the Horsemen, leading lớn a back-and-forth of scenes that leave Thaddeus" true motives a mystery.

About two-thirds in, it"s revealed that Thaddeus has been colluding with Tressler lớn kill Dylan. However, in the last scene of the film, the Horsemen meet up with two members of The Eye, the magic siêu thị owners, & discover that Thaddeus is the head of the organization. He & Dylan"s dad were actually partners, playing up their rivalry in public. Thus, the plot of this movie is revealed lớn have been a long-con devised by Thaddeus lớn shape Dylan into a great magician leader — aka the new head of The Eye — và the Horsemen into a top-tier team. To vày so, he manipulated Walter & Tressler into doing everything they did; even the guy guarding the computer chip was in on it.


In a tease for more lớn come — a potential "Now You See Me 3" — the film finishes on a shot of the Horsemen spiraling down a mix of stairs to uncover further secrets of The Eye. What did they find? Well, that remains a mystery.