A totally okay time-waster.

Rating: 5/10 (20 August 2007)

I watched this movie a night when I was extremely tired, and though it was a good way of killing time, it's not something I'd see more than once. Yes, the acting was good. The storyline was okay. The movie had its good parts. But I couldn't stop thinking about The Prestige when I saw it. The Prestige is, according to me, so much better than The Illusionist, and although the movies really don't have that much in common, they're still much alike. And after watching The Prestige with its wicked end, it wasn't that hard to figure out how this film's ten last minutes would be like.
I give it 5/10, but that might not be a really fair grade. Many people would probably like this movie if the took their time to watch it, and I recommend you to do it. You might actually get something out of it.