The Prestige set out as a thriller, but ended as a fairytale

Rating: 7/10 (15 February 2007)

The Prestige is about two rivaling magicians that started as colleagues, but an unfortunate even led them to be enemies obsessed with the others failure. Then they go through great lengths to sabotage and steal the other person's tricks, for revenge and for a magicians honor.
The movie is entertaining, because the setting/scenario is quite original - except that there is also the Illusionist, but that movie has a different theme - and Christopher Nola directed it. It made the story telling very interesting. However as the twist and turns unfold, you start to expect a brilliant ending, I call that the 'Wow'-factor. You remember watching Memento and at the end you find out he already avenged his wife and you go Woooowwwww in your mind ;-) The 'wow'-factor in The Prestige is disappointingly low as they use unrealistic elements to do the ending that you're not prepared for in the beginning. The let you expect it's all science behind the illusions and tricks, but then half-way the movie they come with something new and scientifically speaking, utterly nonsense.
So set yourself for one of the most entertaining movie right now, and you'll enjoy it even more if you don't take the movies realism serious. Great acting from Christian and Hugh that alone is worth the time.