Very good and so close to the perfect ending ...

Rating: 9/10 (9 September 2007)

this one was so beautiful
still the darkness in me would love it to just cut it right in the moment he disappeared ... would be so much darker, more romantic and beautiful this way or maybe i just do not like happy endings ... :p
still a very good achievement
Edward Norton was great as usual, i also loved Paul Giamatii and especially the evil prince Rufus Sewell managed to create.
i have read a bit about this period of Austrian history - a funny way to explain the Crownprinces suicide ... still this could make a good movie on its own, with the real reasons
this movie is a strong and unbreakable love story, combined with a really great illusion trick (i would prefer it to be a bit of dark romantic magic instead ...). it is very beautifully shot, has the dark mood i always loved in movies and is so close to the perfect ending ... watch it
about the comparison with the prestige - this one is darker in mood and beautiful slow in development and missed just by several inches a really great ending and the prestige is entertaining and faster/with way more action, but failed to touch my hearth... so this one wins
Eisenheim: "A real mystery. I saw remarkable things but the only mystery I never solved was... why my heart couldn't let go of you."