The subtitle for this one should have been the subtitle for the second one, but whatever.
Three younger would be Horsemen do a trick and attract the attention of the older Horsemen, whereby they are all gathered together to take down on Veronika Vanderberg, diamond owner and all around bad person. Surely everything will go their way, and if it doesn't, they'll just make you think that was their plan all along.
Okay, now this movie series has always had various set pieces, but this movie felt worse in that everything was set pieces, strung together with barely even an illusion (sic) of plot. They go to a Chateau and do some stuff because... they happen to go to the Chateau and do some stuff. There's tricks at a car expo because... that's where they happen to be. There is no particular reason to link any of this together other than the writers were "hey, what if we did some snazzy thing over in this place?"
The original horsemen are back... the actual original horsemen, led by Jesse "Can he ever not play an asshole?" Eisenberg. The newcomers aren't terrible, and hey, Justice Smith is doing stuff. Rosamund Pike is Veronika, and her accent coach isn't being paid enough. And there are other cameos from previous actors who couldn't be bothered to be in this movie properly, but there's always hope for the sequel (because of course there can be a sequel).
The effects are... snazzy, as I said, and definitely the sort of thing magicians could pull off, and not CGI or post-production effects. If you've seen the previous movies, it's more of the same.
I caught this on VOD, and not at all sad I didn't see it in the theatre.
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