great film flat ending

Rating: 8/10 (22 August 2013)

Wow! very entertaining from start to just before the finish. I loved the complexity of the story and the ability for the magic to still amaze even through the screen. However the ending fell flat. While i did not see the detectives character to surprise us with his involvement in the ploy how the story wrapped up lacked the level of surprise and whit shown throughout the film. I wanted an ending that was as smart as the magic shows not the regular old "surprise its me" that so often happens in ending twists. I wanted an ending that was so full of magic that i would have to think it through two or three times to get it. This was no "The usual suspects", the depth of the detectives character did not run far enough into the story for us to truly be amazed. They could have made any one of the characters the secret magician for example the female detectives character or Thaddeuses the hidden magician. It felt, for me, that this was where the story fell flat. The depth and meaning behind the reason of why Agent Fuller was in the end the key eye magician was just not there. Laying over the story of his passed away grandfather felt like a band aid solution for what is a very cool and unique movie that had the intention of a cool and mind blowing ending.