This movie was Excellent!!!!

Rating: 10/10 (28 January 2007)

I thought this movie was great from beginning to end and pretty much the whole movie is an illusion itself. This is the true irony of the movie. My only problem with the movie is that a lot of the tricks are not believable even though Edward Norton's character boasts that they are illusions. There's no way in that time era a hologram could be created. Even the Orange Tree trick is not believable. Inside the Orange Tree book you can see diagrams of the trick and how the leaves are extracting out, but what about the oranges? Overall though the acting is great. Jessica Biel looks very amazing. Edward Norton is one of my favorite actors and Paul Giamatti is great as well. Both these actors should have won Oscars for famous roles in American History X (Norton) and Cinderella Man (Giamatti), but obviously the Acadamy Awards are the most biased awards in the history of mankind when horrible movies like Shakespare in Love are beating out movies like Saving Private Ryan (one of the best war movies ever) for Best Picture of the Year award. I'll have to see the movie "The Prestige" cause it sounds like a lot of people on here thought that movie was better than "The Illusionist" and I'm a big fan of Christian Bale.