This movie makes for a real magic act...

Rating: 9/10 (13 November 2006)

The story is told by Cutter played by Michael Caine and it unfolds a bit confusing at first as Borden (Christian Bale) reads the journal of Angier (Hugh Jackman). Borden is reading of how Jackman is actually reading and translating his old diary of how he wielded his best magic trick ever. A trick that Angier will go to any length to recreate and claim his own.
The pair first meet as young men, eager to become magicians in their own right working for a well established magician who likes to play it safe, recreating the tricks of others safely until a cruel twist of fate, and a knot actually claims the life of Angier's young wife in a death defying water stunt. Forever cursing and blaming Borden for tying the knot that may or may not have taken his wives life Angier vows to outdo Borden, even it if means going to hell and back himself.
You could never in a million years guess how this film would end. Because the director himself has used the oldest magic tricks in the book to fool us. Mis-direction, disguise, entertaining and good old fashioned humour to divert us from the truth until the end of the movie when the twists, (yes more than one) are revealed. Leaving us breathless and in awe of how good a movie this actually is.
Abrakadabra.