Just finished watching nysm. Need to put my thoughts out there. Spoiler obviously, so skip this if you still want to be surprised.
So first, let's go with the positive one. I love how they reveal the first trick with diamond stealing, that was simple but fun.. and i didn't expect it. I love seeing the horsemen again.... and obviously, jesse eisenberg in the big screen is an auto plus point.
Now onto the negatives. The conclusion is simply this one is no better than the first two movies. Maybe it's me being nostalgic, but i want more of the grand, over the top stage performance of the old four (fifth) horsemen. In this one, the youngster did it, and that too felt soooo 'kinda there'....like it's lacking some charm... It's basically only Charli where the other two are somewhere in the background (i mean, beside Charli, everyone succumbed into bg characters in the last trick)
They just recycled the second movie trick, but that too was better than this one... Cause everyone is involved (I still remember the horsemen smiling and waving through the plane's window). It's unfortunate, that they have so many interesting characters, but none really got the spotlight........
The new gen that's actually believable to me is Dominic sessa, idk much about ariana, cause we didn't really get to see her perform on stage and she's there for the stunt most of the time. And justice is the next dylan, so he's more of a leader and not really a performance guy.
Now circle back to stage grand performance, that's the part of nysm franchise that i love the most.... And it's nowhere to be found here, cause wdym, you got all of those cool opening vcr of the horsemen like it's a concert for them to just DO NOTHING???? ππ LIKE THEY SAID A SENTENCE THEN JUST WENT TO MEET VERONICA... LIKE BROOO WHATT????? πππππ€£π€£ππ ALL THAT HYPE FOR NOTHING (yeah, i know it's for the last trick, BUT AGAIN, IT FELT ANTICLIMAX, we've seen the trick before, so for the og horsemen to just be there and be a spectator for the final act isss soooooo disappointing)
AND ALSO, I HATE CAR RACE SCENE, STOP WITH THE CAR RACE HOLLYWOOD GOSH... IT TAKES SO MUCH RUNTIME THAT YOU COULD ALLOCATE TO MUCH WORTHY SCENE THAT ACTUALLY ADD MORE TO THE STORY.
UNLESS YOU'RE PTA, STOP WITH THE CAR RACE T-T.
now onto the theory part (im too lazy to make a separate post... It's not like ppl would read into this part)
I have a theory that Danny knew all along that Charli lure them out and he chooses to help him anyway despite knowing it's not an invitation from the eye. Because, we get to see how charli do the trick with the other three while nothing for Daniel... We also didn't get Daniel background and what he's been up to for a while, we know what happened to the other three... But nothing for Danny, almost like the franchise still wants to keep Daniel as mysterious as possible.
Could be wrong tho, it could be Thadeus that knows. I think my issue lay in the way they set up Charli to be Dylan (the eye) and use horsemen for his benefit... But ultimately we didn't get much from the horsemen cause the new gen did everything... It's not that bad in the hindsight......... BUT GOSH I WANT THE OG HORSEMEN BEING COOL ON STAGE AND I DIDN'T GET IT... So yeah, whatever