Startling Magician Story.

Rating: 8/10 (31 August 2013)

Christopher Nolan directs this imaginative, original, and quite unpredictable story of two rival magicians(played effectively by Christian Bale & Hugh Jackman) who escalate their rivalry when Jackman's wife dies, and blames Bale for it. This leads to increasingly daring magic tricks, each trying to sabotage the other, until a double-twist ending that no one saw coming...
Film also fictionalizes a meeting with real inventor Tesla, who had experimented with new power sources and electricity, but was largely forgotten by history. In this story, he invents a machine that both magicians covet, but which doesn't work according to plan.
Densely plotted but mesmerizing and superbly crafted story ends on a most surprising yet satisfying note. Just like a real magic trick, its all about deception and misdirection, so pay attention!