Slow, boring, and painfully predictable.

Rating: 5/10 (21 August 2006)

It was easy to see exactly what the "surprise" ending would be an hour before it reared its tedious head. After all, didn't he ask her if she wanted to come with him just before the shenanigans began? And wasn't he an "illusionist"?
There was a major Hollywood fallacy that made the movie into a typical puerile Hollywood commodity. When a powerful prince, who could be beyond the law, asks his ambitious chief inspector to get rid of someone, that someone would disappear, quickly; not have endless, idiotic discussions with a namby-pamby, highly moral and indecisive chief inspector who behaved more like Captain Kangaroo rather than the ruthless, blindly-obedient servant of the prince required of the position. Did the illusionist use his high-pitched, insipid voice to hypnotize the chief inspector? Perhaps. But it would not have saved the chief inspector from the lethal wrath of the prince.
And that last scene. All I could think of is, "Where is that raised-in-luxury noblewoman going to do shopping?" No need for that when you've got dried elk patties to gather for the stove.