A good idea ruined!

Rating: 5/10 (2 August 2011)

"The Prestige, my favorite movie of all time. A perfect movie with probably the best script ever. You got to see it!" This is what I heard from my brother about The Prestige before I watched it for the first time. I knew absolutely nothing about it, I only had promises of a good movie. So close to be true...
Before I start to point out what I disliked about this movie, I shall provide a short summary. Two magicians basically compete about who is the best. That pretty much sums it up, and believe me when I say, the story is great and if you like movies that are 90% good you should consider watching it. However, to me that is not an option. I can't like a movie that was almost perfect. That would be like flying with a pilot that is extremely skilled except he does not know how to land. It simply ruins the entire thing.
What I'm talking about is the ending. The story, as stated, is about two magicians competing for the best trick. They go from decent tricks into really advanced trick while the tension between them increases. The atmosphere of the movie becomes really exciting and almost a little frightening. Things happen you don't except and you eagerly wait for a good solution. I did not know there would be a "twist" but I expected it after watching most of the movie. When I realized there would be a twist I was so excited I could barely sit still. Boom! There it was... the twist. And what was it? A cloning machine! Pardon my french, but what... the... hell... This movie takes place at about 1899 and the movie is based on making doable, yet amazing tricks. The movie is about them being more clever the the other and cheating each other in the most clever ways. Suddenly, one of them ends up with something like this. A cloning machine! Not even today are you close to being able to clone a human. This makes absolutely no sense.
They could have added something like a "science trick", like an outstanding, yet realistic achievement in modern science, something with water or electricity. Or make an even more outstanding, yet doable magic trick. But what do they do? They add something as lame as this.
This ruined the entire movie. It made me angrier and angrier. How could they destroy such an epic movie with adding such a horrible ending? To summarize this, Chris Nolan should focus on making movies about men dressing as giant winged rats or people going through a million dream layers, he is good at that, but he can't make serious deep movies with great twists.
1/10 - Like flying an airplane, a movie who is a nice ride for two hours and then crashes in the end, is not a ride I want to pay for nor participate in.