Morally reprehensible

Rating: 3/10 (18 March 2008)

Okay, I will go straight to the point, I find the premise of this movie morally reprehensible.
A poor boy falls in love with a rich girl. The poor boy does not stand a chance to get the girl. So the poor boy becomes a magician. One day he meets the rich girl again. Only this time she is to marry a crown prince. The poor boy meets the rich girl, they fornicate. And then they decide to fake the rich girl's death, and blame it on the crown prince. And as a result the crown prince commits suicide. And because the crown prince never became the emperor, WW I erupted, and the whole of Europe was thrown into chaos. And the co-architects of the downfall of the crown lives happily ever after.
Since when has it become fashionable to condone murder in the name of love? I never realized that Hollywood has sunken this low.
And oh, most of the acting was sub par. I especially abhorred their horrible fake European accents. If you can't fake proper continental European accents, just speak in plain vanilla American style English, at least then it would sound more pleasing to the ears.