A dark, intense intriguing journey of rival magicians filled with unpredictable twists and turns.

Rating: 9/10 (29 October 2006)

You won't have a problem paying close attention to this mesmerizing and sometimes shocking plot, but if your attention wanders even for a moment, you'll be lost in the end. I'm still explaining details to my husband of the unexpected ending, where and when the details were set up earlier, and how and why. He totally missed the fact that Borden was not the most evil after all, but that Angier was the worst of the two. He missed catching onto the fact that Borden had created his own double (a real twin?), but kept him around as a constant companion, confidante and equal partner - while Angier murdered each double immediately after the great trick was finished and his usefulness was ended.
Few movies will succeed in keeping me in the dark for so long with their unpredictability, but this one surely did. I loved it.