Now you’re looking for the secret... but you won’t find it because you’re not really looking. You don’t really want to know the secret… You want to be fooled.
Cutter, The Prestige
The Prestige
Movie Review
2006 | PG-13
Reviewed April 4, 2007
A tragic accident shatters the friendship of two young magicians and incites a lifelong animosity; as their careers ascend, so does their rivalry, until neither can be stopped in the obsessive quest for vengeance. I’d write a longer summary, but I’m afraid I’ll inadvertantly give away the plot, which is so tightly wound and carefully twisted that even the smallest details speak volumes; think Memento and The Others rolled into one. (It’s directed by the guy who directed Memento, which is a recommendation in itself.) I’m a sucker for turn-of-the-century “costume dramas” anyway, and turn-of-the-century magic movies get extra points in my book — but even if the cast had been wearing blue jeans and toting iPods, this movie would still get a 5/5 rating. Hell, even Scarlett Johansson’s English accent worked! For once, the blurbs on the back do not lie when they claim that “you’ll want to watch it again the minute it’s over” — I sat spellbound through all two hours, and if it hadn’t been near midnight when I finished it, I would certainly have popped it right back in.
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