Suspend disbelief my ass!!!!!!!!

Rating: 2/10 (31 August 2007)

I've heard of suspending disbelief but this is ridiculous. Tesla did not invent a teleportation machine. Creating this fantasy isn't a satisfying solution to how Jackman was able to do his teleportation act. "The Prestige" isn't the sort of movie where the motivations of the characters is enough to carry the plot, as it was in Amedeus. So much of the plot is sprinkled with revelations of magic tricks that I was expecting a rational explanation for Jackman's trick. I don't think anybody can claim this is irrelevant to the plot. Quite frankly the only thing about this story that held my interest was the possibility that the explanation for the trick would be clever. Instead it was just as disappointing as the time my parents told me there was no santa claus.
"The Prestige" was long, boring and the plot twists were trite.