Fantastic for 120/130 minutes

Rating: 5/10 (8 May 2019)

Undoubtedly beautiful and well acted, The Prestige feels like it is constantly challenging the viewer to find the secrets below its surface.
The characters themselves are well written with understandable motives and actions that accompany them. In fact everything presented is understandable and can be explained by the rules of the world we live in, until the reveal. And it is at the point of the reveal the movie lost me, because the movie that had up until this moment presented itself as a period piece turns out to be sci-fi masquerading as a period piece.
There is nothing wrong with sci-fi, but to (seemingly) present a puzzle to the viewer that it turns out was unsolvable all along feels cheap and unsatisfying.