“Now You See Me 2” (** out of four) was an inferior sequel to the 2013 heist comedy about The Four Horsemen (Jesse Eisenberg, Dave Franco, Woody Harrelson, Mark Ruffalo) and a new recruit (Lizzy Caplan) being forced by a tech nerd (Daniel Radcliffe) to pull off their most daring heist yet. Some cool magic tricks (one sequence involving Eisenberg stopping rain is a real wow) but lacks the freshness and clever intricacy of the original and is too long. Pleasant enough but overall a better thing to “see” is the original again. Caplan, of “Mean Girls” fame, is a virtual dead-ringer here for Katy Perry.

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