Waste of time

Rating: 1/10 (24 May 2008)

Whenever I can identify a bad movie at first sight it makes me laugh and not at all angry. Al least I know what genre I see and this makes me calibrate my expectations. The word "magic" causes three different levels for me: 1.Real magic,you may believe or not like being told existing in other cultures 2.The magic of illusionists like Mr.Copperfield and friends and 3.The typical writers magic like Potter or Jeckyll/Hide(pure fiction) I saw this movie without any previous knowledge about the book or plot. It started well and I liked it although it "twisted" my mind a bit.Seemed to be about the second type (Copperfield) so even as it is a movie I believed that these "tricks" exist,not expecting to be given away. Then the shock with this "clone" idea.The movie changed its genre and every thought I had before was worthless.The movie became "ridiculous"(thanks Jo) In the end I hoped the two guys might become friends invent a new sparkling machine to immortalize and call themselves Siegfried and Roy