The art of innocence

Rating: 4/10 (5 January 2007)

With a 7.7 rating and my expectations built up by a friend, I was completely disappointed during and at the end of the movie. The acting is good, the picture is beautiful... apart from that it's an excruciatingly predictable movie. The plot is obvious from very early on. Some people argue that people should enjoy the movie and not focus on the plot, but I can't honestly enjoy waiting for something it's obvious that is going to happen. Even more when the title is "The Illusionist"... the beauty of magic or illusionism is to make people wonder how something is possible and there wasn't much to wonder about here.
A movie only for the ones who master "the art of innocence". Skeptics, thinkers and everyone eager for something new, please stay away from this movie or at the end of it you'll be as frustrated as me.