Like its predecessor, crime caper movie Now You See Me 2 is a flashy piece of cinematic confectionary; energetic like a sugar rush but mostly devoid of substance and at times nauseating. The first film’s stars Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Mark Ruffalo and Dave Franco return although Isla Fisher has departed and been replaced by Lizzie Caplan who plays Lula.
Read moreFrench director Luc Besson’s energetic, ballsy but occasionally crass and simple-minded action thrillers have left him almost as divisive a figure as Michael Bay. His latest movie Lucy, which stars Scarlett Johansson, will no doubt provoke vitriolic responses from both supporters and detractors. Scarlett Johansson plays Lucy, an innocent American student living in Taipei who has somehow hooked up with
Read moreFilms with a sinister, all-powerful, self-aware computer threatening to obliterate the human race have almost become a genre unto themselves. There was the creepy HAL trying to scuttle the Jupiter mission in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Skynet triggering the apocalypse in The Terminator, Colossus threatening nuclear annihilation in Colossus: The Forbin Project and the female-voiced computer taunting Shia Labeouf in
Read moreStar-packed crime caper film Now You See Me plunges us into the world of glitzy, big-budget magic shows normally occupied by the likes of David Copperfield and Siegfried and Roy. In a fun but extremely far-fetched storyline, four famed magicians J. Daniel Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg), Henley Leeves (Isla Fisher), Merrit McKinney (Woody Harrelson) and Jack Wilder (Dave Franco) are recruited
Read moreAfter his foray into mindless rom-coms Gerard Butler leaps back into mindless action films as former secret service agent and Special Forces killing machine Mike Banning who battles terrorists in the ludicrous thriller Olympus Has Fallen. This film is basically Die Hard goes to the White House as Butler’s Mike Banning takes on a small army of rogue North Koreans
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