Very good, but failed to touch me somehow

Rating: 8/10 (9 September 2007)

very well shot, interesting story and even touches some very interesting questions about being human
still it somehow failed to touch my hearth ...
maybe because you just can't start to care about any of the characters ... they are all quite dislikable, each mad in his own way ... well, this is the way it has to be to show us those dark spots of us all i guess ...
the movie manages to end without the much preferred Hollywood happy ending, at least for me and this i find quite positive. some may argue that at least the child and the father (if this was the father) stay alive and the others get what they deserve, but ... do they really and is the guy who stays alive the one who tied Angiers wife? and didn't both twins drive their own wife into suiciding?
i for my part would love to see them all dead ... maybe in some twisted manner like From Dusk Till DOwn - all the audience turns into vampires and kills them all ;)
having complained a bit i still must admit this to be a very good movie. it finally convinced me that Hugh Jackman is a really good actor, also i love David Bowies character and the story has enough twists to keep you awake
"Robert Angier: Price is not an object. Nikola Tesla: Yes, but have you considered the *cost*?"