So disappointing, such a pity!!!!

Rating: 3/10 (11 September 2013)

I was quite excited about this movie after seeing the trailers and to be frank, it started rather well but that's it! I'll admit, the film is quite entertaining till the abominable twist (which isn't even one) and a totally cliché ending. Mark Ruffalo and Mélanie Laurent's romance is totally unbelievable. But if only that was the only problem: the writers cheated all the way, I mean, the culprit cannot be the culprit, it's just not believable. And the fact that the culprit, imagines such an elaborate plan to frame the man that he hates and who could have been framed simply by planting some drug in the trunk of his car seems so far-fetched. After watching it, I was upset because I felt like I had been cheated. Come the end of this disastrous movie, the whole story seems totally stupid and unbelievable. A lot of reviewers compare this film to The Prestige (which was great by the way) but if you look closely, you'll see that it's just a bad copycat of Usual Suspects (which was over excellent IMHO): 4 crooks/magicians recruited by a mysterious person who wishes to exact revenge on someone and who is all along under the nose of the very people he is manipulating. Except that in the Usual Suspect, the twist was amazing, the quality of the overall film excellent, the exact opposite of this poor production. Well, at least the producers made big money. There was therefore a point to this whole mess. Good for them.
Finally, Mélanie Laurent's part is totally pointless, she's just there to help the writers to cheat us the best they can and again, the fact that she falls for a guy who played her and treated her like rubbish during the whole time they spent together just baffles me. But again, this is due to poor directing and a weak script.