What to write?

Rating: 6/10 (18 October 2017)

*****Warning!!! Definite Spoilers!!!*****
The Pledge? Appears to start out in an interesting way.
The Turn? Well there's some intrigue and a few clues as to where things may be leading.
The Prestige? Unfortunately for me, this is where the film splits into 2 halves. One of which is close to brilliant, the other descends into farce. Luckily the farcical element does disappear somewhat for the film to reach a rather thrilling climax.
The Borden/Fallon half is quite superb. After the "discovery" of Tesla inventing cloning though, the Angiers half underwhelms me. I was half expecting the DVD to have a bonus feature of how Sir Isaac Newton invented the levitation of apples but my copy must be missing that chapter.
Maybe I just have an issue with the retro-fitting of science fiction into a plot set in the past.
It's beautifully filmed with gorgeous cinematography and the acting is mostly first class but I do wish Mr Nolan would use a steadi-cam device a bit more often. Close-ups, especially at indoor locations, where the background is waving around is something I find particularly distracting.
Since on any given day I could probably rate this anywhere between a 3 and a 7 based on my personal boundaries of disbelief. (As Cutter says, "you want to be fooled". But I say, yeah sure but not conned). So I shall be relatively generous and stick with a 6
Now I'm no writer but instead of stockpiling 99 other dead bodies for the cops to miraculously NOT find whilst investigating a murder.... What if...... the story had hinged on the Tesla machine not actually working, and Angiers engineering some foolproof plan to get Borden or Fallon backstage on a particular night when Root falls into the tank...........
Well, wouldn't that have been amazing. Talking of which, what did happen to Root????
I guess we're not meant to care about the guy in the box.