Review of The Prestige (2006) by Adrianh. — 20 Oct 2006
The movie has all the tools for a great movie and starts off by creating a fantastic and twisted story of rivalry and the lengths two men go to one-up each other. I was engrossed in the movie, sorting through all the deception and double crossing and trying to sort out what was going to happen.
But it's like halfway through the movie, the writers tried to get too clever for their own good and write in improbable and implausible twist after twist... culminating in the 'secret' to the final trick being so horribly out of place in the film I literally sat there shaking my head at the screen.
Rather than create clever twist for a trick that is even performed by magicians everywhere today, they resorted to using some crazy science fiction elements. It's like they spent all the time setting it up only to cop out for the final revelation.
By the time the movie wraps up all the loose ends and tells you how everything was done, you may just not care anymore.
This review of The Prestige (2006) was written by Adrianh. on 20 Oct 2006.
The Prestige has generally received very positive reviews.
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