Now You See Me 2

Now You See Me 2 (2016)

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Continuity mistake: In the first movie, when Dylan and Alma first meet up with Thaddeus Bradley for lunch, he mentions that Lionel Shrike was a magician in the 1970s and one year later, attempted the safe in the river trick that killed him, but in the opening scene of this movie, it is shown that the safe in the river trick that killed Lionel Shrike took place in 1984. (00:00:35)

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Audio problem: When younger Dylan is talking with his father before he performs the stunt, Dylan tells Shrike he doesn't want him to go and Shrike says to him "Dylan, come on. We talked about this." As Shrike says "Dylan, come on", the shot is behind him, but his jaw doesn't move with the speech. (00:01:15)

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Continuity mistake: When Daniel is communicating with "The Eye", he walks over to a well and places his phone down around the rim of it. The phone is beside the edge of one of the blocks covering the rim, to its left. When Walter is explaining to Daniel later on in the movie that he was the voice, the scene cuts to a flashback, and Daniel is now shown placing the phone beside the right hand side of the edge of the block. (00:06:05 - 01:10:55)

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Continuity mistake: When Walter is explaining to Daniel he was the voice he heard earlier in the movie, he mentions that he put his phone on a by-wave syphon pad, the scene flashes back to when Daniel was communicating with the voice and it is discovered there was a device planted inside the well, shown behind a grid. When Daniel visited this place earlier on in the movie, the grid inside the well was visible, but there was no sight of the device inside the grid. (00:06:05 - 01:11:00)

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Continuity mistake: In Dylan's first scene, he walks into a meeting room at the FBI and requests a minute with the director. During this, Dylan has a mug in his left hand and a file in his right hand. There is a long shot in this scene, with the shot several meters from Dylan, where the file is suddenly in his left hand. Then in the next shot of Dylan after that, the file is suddenly back. (00:07:20)

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Continuity mistake: When Dylan is showing the FBI director and Cowan the photo of who may be Merritt McKinney, he is standing next to the director turned to the right, but in the next shot, the two are suddenly directly facing each other. (00:08:15)

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Continuity mistake: When Dylan is showing the FBI director and Cowan the photos of the Horsemen, just as the FBI director asks what it all means, she is looking at Dylan, but in the next shot, she is suddenly looking at the photos. (00:08:50)

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Character mistake: Dylan is showing Agent Cowan and the FBI director the pictures of the pigeons and Dylan and Cowan start arguing, while the FBI director continues to look at the evidence on the Four Horsemen. Whilst looking there is an article reading "FBI Investigation Stalls." On the first column of the article, it is mentioned that all four members of the Four Horsemen, J. Daniel Atlas, Henley Reeves, Merritt McKinney and Jack Wilder, all disappeared into thin air at the final magic show, and gave the audience fake dollar bills. By the time of the final magic show, Jack had faked his death and was presumed dead, so only three members of the Horsemen were present, not four. (00:08:55)

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Continuity mistake: When Jack is showing Merritt how to throw cards, just after he throws the last card, Merritt says "Not bad" looking straight forward at the card, but in the next shot, Merritt is looking at Jack. (00:12:40)

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Continuity mistake: When Merritt fails to throw the card, Jack says "it's good to be positive despite having made zero progress in a year" whilst looking at Merritt. In the next shot, Jack's head is suddenly turned about 90°. (00:12:50)

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Audio problem: When Dylan begins explaining the plan to infiltrate OCTA to the Horsemen, there is a wide shot where he says "OCTA's hosting the launch of the next-gen cell phone" but his lips don't move at the start of the line. (00:15:40)

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Continuity mistake: The banana that Jack takes from the woman at the metal detector when he is posing as a security guard at the OCTA launch is different to the one he plants in the CCTV guard's pocket a few minutes later. (00:16:25 - 00:18:30)

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Continuity mistake: When Dylan and the Horsemen are infiltrating the OCTA party, Daniel is carrying a tray with four different lines of sushi. Daniel then walks into the hallway still holding the tray and the four lines of sushi and their position on the tray have suddenly been reversed. (00:16:55)

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Continuity mistake: When Atlas walks in to the Octa phone launch disguised as a waiter he has a silver tray. Someone rearranges something on it as he walks down the corridor and it is plainly a silver tray. He walks through after the rearrangement and the next shot there is a briefcase visible under the tray. The tray is supposed to be a tray that becomes a briefcase but is too thin to do that. When first seen there is no space for the briefcase part to be closed up against the tray. (00:16:55)

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Continuity mistake: When Daniel is trying to take the OCTA CCTV guard's ID pass, he takes a picture of him with a Polaroid camera so that he can stick it onto a tag to prove that he is from a mental hospital. When the picture prints out from the camera, all that is shown is shown is the image of the guard against a white background, instead of the wall seen behind him. Also, when Daniel takes the picture, the guard has his head turned to the right to face Daniel, but when the picture prints, the guard has his head positioned completely forwards. (00:17:40)

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Audio problem: At the OCTA launch, when Daniel calls security for the CCTV guard, the security guard finds the Evans Mental Facility wristband on his wrist, then the CCTV guard says "Hold on a second" but his mouth doesn't move. (00:18:10)

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Continuity mistake: When the security guard at the OCTA launch finds the Evans Mental Facility wristband on the CCTV guard's wrist, the wristband and wrist are pointed away from the CCTV guard's face, but in the next shot, the wristband and wrist is directly facing the CCTV guard. (00:18:10)

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Continuity mistake: When Owen Case is being introduced at the OCTA launch, Merritt and Lula are backstage and Merritt says "Nice work, lady" whilst putting his hat on. In the next shot, his hands are suddenly by his side. (00:20:30)

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Continuity mistake: When the Horsemen are exposing Owen Case at the OCTA party, as Lula says "He's mocked your privacy. He scorned it", she is standing facing the audience and is mostly covered in stage light. The shot then cuts to Daniel talking, and Lula, visible to the right of shot, is now standing facing Daniel and only half covered in stage light. (00:22:40)

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Continuity mistake: When the Horsemen are onstage at the OCTA party, Dylan opens his iPad and notices a tarot card on it. In the close-up shot, when the tarot card is first shown, it can be seen slightly passing over the edges of the iPad, but in the shot previously, Dylan is opening the iPad, but the tarot card is nowhere in sight. It would have been visible even from the camera angle that was shown. (00:22:45)

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J. Daniel Atlas: We are going out with a show people will never forget.

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Question: While the chip that Walter recovered from the Horsemen was presumably fake (as the Horsemen discovered earlier in the film), why then did they alert the FBI to that chip?

Answer: The only ones who knew the chip was fake were the Horsemen, no one else did. Walter did not know the chip was fake. The plan was to convince Walter that the chip was real so that they could lure him out of hiding with Walter attempting to kidnap and later kill them, and expose Walter to the public in doing so. They told the crowd after exposing Walter about the chip, because while it was a fake, they still had plans with it assuming it was real. If by "alert the FBI", you were referring to when Dylan gave the FBI director the evidence on Walter and Tressler, that was not the chip he gave to her, that was a hard drive containing all of Walter and Tressler's past dealings.

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