8 Alternative Awards For 2016's Movies
2. Biggest Waste Of Morgan Freeman - Now You See Me 2
This sequel throws credibility to the winds about the time Merritt McKinney (Woody Harrelson) is visited by his identical twin brother, who hypnotizes him with a spinning pizza box. Or something.
What makes the movie worthy of your contempt is that, even more so than Ben Hur and London Has Fallen, it represents the most egregious misuse of Morgan Freeman. Ever since he stole Street Smart from Christopher Reeve in 1987 (for which he received an Oscar nomination), Freeman has played second banana to everyone from Mickey Rourke (Johnny Handsome) to Tom Cruise (Oblivion) and he was often the best thing in the movie.
He is, then, an actor who deserves better than a series of scrappy bit parts in not one, not two but three of 2016’s most underwhelming movies. His part in London Has Fallen amounted to little more than a cameo, but here he’s an integral part of a nonsense plot that falls apart as you watch. To give you an idea of what the cast has to work with, there’s a sequence where Jesse Eisenberg appears to cause the rain to stop in mid-downpour….which is then explained away with a rain machine and strobe lights.
Pretty sure that wouldn’t work in real life.