Title – Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (2025)

Director – Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland)

Cast – Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Isla Fisher, Dominic Sessa, Justice Smith, Rosamund Pike

Plot – The Four Horseman reunite to take down nefarious diamond heiress Veronika Vanderberg (Pike) in their most daring and potentially deadly feat yet.

“I am really looking forward to taking you down”

Review by Eddie on 30/04/2026

Doing enough to survive until at least this third entry into the series, the Now You See Me franchise is back for the first entry since 2016’s disastrously bland addition with new overseer Ruben Fleischer gifting us Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, another outwardly pretty but inwardly hollow experience that one hopes might see the death knell of this brand for good.

Currently scheduled to move into a 4th entry, with Fleischer (what happened to the man that gave us Zombieland?) returning to the director’s chair, it’s hard to imagine how the Now series can move forward with any type of reason to exist having now well and truly exhausted all possibilities of the “4 Horseman” and their magic tricks that never feel that magical or believable to start with.

There’s nothing wrong with films existing purely to entertain and not every film out there needs to make much logical sense, but the series has long managed to make seemingly fun and exciting capers and hijinks bereft of any life or genius and while the returning cast are all talented and capable in their own respective rights, nothing about Now’s latest addition provides much in the way of a reason to seek it out, showcased in the films so-so box office run towards the end of 2025.

Following the exploits of The Horseman as they are reunited against their knowledge by a mysterious quest to take down Rosamund Pike’s badly accented diamond heiress Veronika Vanderberg, Now once more sends us and its players on a global quest to wow and entertain but with a poorly tuned script, a dull quest and an unimaginative collection of set-ups and set-pieces, this is a big budgeted Hollywood offering that is nothing more than an illusion of a good film.

I’ve never personally been one that connected with this series, even its oddly well-received first outing and if I were to say something nice about this third adventure I can say that at least it’s slightly better than the low point that was the second film but there’s something irritating and frustrating about this series that seems like it’s always close to doing something really good, think good dumb fun in the same ilk of Pirates of the Caribbean or National Treasure, but it just never gets there in anything it does.

There’s clearly an audience for the Now brand, even though that’s showing wear and tear now with poor audience reviews coinciding with dwindling box office returns, but we should be demanding more of this series with significant budgets, cast lists and directors who can do and should know better than delivering such forgettable and pointless films as this that fail in the most basic of its deliverables by not bringing the fun outside of some passable minor distractions.

Final Say –

Another listless and forgettable entry into a series that somehow keeps on keeping on, there’s a time and a place for films like Now You See Me: Now You Don’t but we deserve better than what keeps getting delivered by this I.P that has never gotten out of first gear.

2 unsturdy pipes out of 5