Weak ending, exciting story

Rating: 8/10 (4 February 2007)

The story is very exciting: it's quite bleak and you're thinking the whole time: What's going to happen now? But the end ruins everything. Please don't put such an happy ending to such a bleak movie! It was like Romeo and Juliet, but without the dying. It's just not believable to pretend someone's dead but she appears not to be at the end! Besides this horrible end everything was fine: Edward Norton is intimidating and slightly mean as Eisenheim, and I also loved Jessica Biel besides her non-speaking features: her emotion is the same every time. I'd already seen Paul Giamatti in Lady in the Water (2006, together with Bryce Dallas Howard), in which he was great, and here he was too.