Nothing to write home about

Rating: 6/10 (6 January 2007)

While I found this film watchable, I also found it to be rather flat. It was pleasantly shot, but I think I would have been rather more excited at the conclusion of a Sigmund Freud biopic set in Vienna. The Illusionist was more than a touch maudlin and I couldn't help but feel that Philip Glass' score was a retread of many other scores he has put together in the past.
Norton carried the film exactly as I expected: I wasn't surprised and I didn't end up feeling particularly connected. This movie was a predictable romantic period piece with a little bit of cgi thrown-in to spice the paste. Overall I left feeling that this will be one of those films mostly forgotten after a years time.
For a movie with so much magical content, it didn't manage to leave any with me to take home or remember.