Everyone can get a double ..that to identical !!

Rating: 7/10 (24 March 2011)

This is my first Christopher Nolan movie and was curious to see his movie after so much buzz about his direction so We rented an DVD it was such a crap CD it took 5 hours and 2 systems plus four media planners and YouTube to watch climax, it was very tiring exercise because of crap CD still we took so much effort because we liked the movie!!
This is the movie of two friends turned foes because of personal and professional reasons. Alfred Borden played by Christian Bale who is innovative, ready to work hard and take dangerous risks to come with breathtaking illusions and Robert Angier played by Hugh Jackman ,he is very good presenter who can enthrall audience with his presentation skills. They share complimentary skills. Unfortunately their complimentary skill doesn't make them partners but rivals. Difference begins when Julia played by Piper Perabo accidentally dies during performance and Borden doesn't clarify how he tied the knot during performance, so angier considers him responsible for his wife death. If there is such a fundamental difference between relationships it can only become worse. Then the rivalry begins between two to such an extent both appears on each other stage to destroy the performance one another.
Finally Borden performs an ultimate illusion which wasn't done by any one before THE TRANSPORTED MAN, Which puts Angier into great obsession to do the same or perform something better than this or steal it from him and perform it through his excellent presentation skills. He does same illusion with the help of cutter (Michael Caine) his guru and his double. But not satisfied doing with double and thinks Borden is doing alone wants to know the trick and decides to send his assistant Olivia played by Scarlett Johansson to steal the trick from Bordan but she feels betrayed as she was in love with him and instead stealing the trick for Angier she decides to join Borden and take revenge against angier and reveals the trick angier is doing it do in his version transported man ,so Borden approaches angier double and convinces threats he can come across by being an double and woos him to his side and during much hyped and much awaited performance of Angier, Bordan appears in the place of Angier double and destroys the show, this puts angier in deep humiliation and deeply disturbed and decides to come up with an illusion which answer Bordan then he approaches Olivia to know why she betrayed him and manages to take dairy of Bordan against her will and takes his journey to places meets Tesla to come up with illusion never done before. Tesla is a scientist who was working on some next generation electricity machine and Angier decides to invest in the project which could help him in his illusion. So far it is good Then it become sillier and sillier
Finally Tesla delivers it but has to runaway because was under attack by Einstein men. What the machine does, It emits electricity from different direction which looks like thunder, anyone who stands in it and receives electricity it will produce a double nearby place. This is so silly I don't need to tell who silly it is. He takes the machine even thou Tesla advices him to be very careful with it. Finally he realizes he has got what he was looking for. He decides to perform it in best theater in town and to large number of audience so he approaches his guru cutter to arrange for such a show and manage from front. Show was super successful and does one hundred such shows which finally move Bordan to watch his show and find out the trick behind it. Once Angier is performing the show and gets inside the floor Bordan moves towards the show to check it. Angier falls into water tank and starts feeling suffocating and locks gets closed he can't come out, Bordan takes an iron rod and starts hitting the glass to save him but wasn't successful and Bordan is taken to custody for killing him and sentenced to death and he will orphaning his daughter. Angier appears back to tell Bordan he is better than him. Bordan was shocked and surprised at this but he is helpless now. He is hanged then Angier decides to abandon his machine as it has served its purpose. He is standing near his machine being proud of his victory. He is shot by Bordan now it's time for Angier to shocked and surprised looking at Borden. Finally Borden reveals his trick of transported man He simply used double. His double loved Julia and his wife died because she thought he wasn't honest with her and he could not reveal his secret because of him. This comes as deep shock for Angier and dies. This came as deep shock for me also how come both find a double that identical and perform what they ask.
This is story put in a straightforward way but Nolan has done an outstanding job I don't know what the industry word is for it I would refer it frame twisting how he has done it is better watched but I really like his approach. Even though some looks funny overall movie was good performance by all roles are fantastic. It is well paced and explains very well what really happens in magic behind the scenes that what made movie interesting for me.
Finally,I would definitely like to see all his movies.