Unforgivable (Spoiler Alert!!)

Rating: 6/10 (24 February 2008)

I generally enjoyed this movie a great deal, even though I failed to find a main character that I even remotely admired. However, the main storyline of conflict and endless scheming did hold my attention. The performances were generally convincing, even tho a few of the accents were far less then authentic.
However, the contrivance of an ending that relies on a Sci-Fi device very akin to something from "Star Trek" made me walk away from the movie greatly disappointed. What a horribly cheap trick to have as the movie's "big twist" especially when the rest of the movie purported to be firmly based in solid reality. Tricks that backfired resulted in drowning or blown off fingers, ropes grew swollen when wet and became too difficult to untie, and trapdoors dropped magicians onto hard piles of sacking in the small dark recesses below the stage.
The ending of the movie has to rely on a "cloning" machine to work. Was it amazing and clever? No, it was completely and utterly cheap and disappointing. I saw it coming very early on, but had convinced myself that the director would never stoop so low. I was wrong.
Enough said. I found this an above average movie, entertaining on many levels, which, because of a "beam-me-up-Scottie" ending, left a bad taste in my mouth.