Amazing Movie!

Rating: 9/10 (22 January 2007)

This is truly one the better films I've seen this year. Both Ed Norton and Paul Giamatti gave very solid performances. Norton gives an excellent performance as Eisenhiem an extremely talented & mysterious magician who mesmerizes everyone (including you) with his talents. Paul Giamatti nearly perfectly plays a police inspector who is torn between his admiration of Eisenhiem & his need to please the prince to promote himself socially. With these 2 performances must say that I expected as much from Norton, but Giamatti really surprised me with his performance in this role. Normally I tend to dislike "period" movies set back in whatever time period rarely seems to interest me. This one not only kept my interest, but demanded it. This is one of those movies that everything seems to come together just right to make a very entertaining movie that stands as one of 2006's best movies. If you haven't seen this movie yet, then see it! It's definitely worth the price of a rental. I've given this movie a 9 out of 10