Competent but not stellar. Or interstellar.

Rating: 2/10 (14 May 2015)

Professional rivalries between magicians in Victorian London: fun subject matter? Well, its quite melancholy in Christopher Nolan's hands. Its let down a bit by the casting of Hugh Jackman; he's just somehow miscast as a Victorian magician.
Its a hard film to love. Everyone is just a little too spiky and distant, there's not a single character you engage with. It feels more like a technical exercise than an engaging story. Its just a little too conventional in its Love-Triangle style construction. I like it better than Now You See Me for example, but less than other Nolan pictures like Inception and Interstellar. I didn't love The Prestige in 2006 and I still don't love it in 2015; funny how some things don't change.
7/10