the prestige has no prestige

Rating: 2/10 (16 April 2007)

A film that you know the end from the beginning must be a very good film to catch the attention of the audience, like a good trick of magic or like good films like "memento" or "usual suspects". If we know the end at least we expect some interesting history, a real plot, good characters, not just a pretentious film. Here we only have two magicians going all the way around each other, with an obvious twist that evolves into a sci-fi twist which nobody wants to see because we already know. I'd say that the acting of the three main characters is very good (Bale is superb as always, and Jackman is improving), s. Johanson is also OK but her character could be off the film and nobody would notice.