Review of The Prestige (2006) by Baurushan J — 15 Jun 2013
In the late nineteenth century, Robert Angier and Alfred Borden played by Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale are both magicians with separate lives working for "Milton The Magician" played by Ricky Jay.
When they go on to create their own magical illusions, they both become mortal enemies. Robert, living with his wife Julia drowns in one of the acts leaving him to have serious competition with Alfred who's seemingly straying away from his wife Sarah played by Rebecca Hall in order to create the best stage illusion.
Once Robert finds Alfred's notes to his biggest illusion yet, he creates a teleportation-like machine that could clone more people. Alfred seeing this, drowns the cloned Robert during the act while the cloned Alfred tries to save him.
The cloned Alfred accused of being guilty is executed and the real Robert is shot dead and burnt along with all the cloned Roberts by the real Alfred proving that Alfred is the best magician. Based on Christopher Priest's 1995 novel, The Prestige is an amazing movie that told through the simple perspective proving that you don't need tons of exposition to show complexity like The Dark Knight trilogy.
This is one of Christopher Nolan's movies that I can watch again. The Prestige gets a 10/10.
This review of The Prestige (2006) was written by Baurushan J on 15 Jun 2013.
The Prestige has generally received very positive reviews.
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