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Storyline
In the end of the Nineteenth Century, in London, Robert Angier, his beloved wife Julia McCullough and Alfred Borden are friends and assistants of a magician. When Julia accidentally dies during a performance, Robert blames Alfred for her death and they become enemies. Both become famous and rival magicians, sabotaging the performance of the other on the stage. When Alfred performs a successful trick, Robert becomes obsessed trying to disclose the secret of his competitor with tragic consequences. |
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The Director
Christopher Nolan
Christopher Jonathan James Nolan (born July 30, 1970) is a British/American film director, screenwriter and producer. He is known for writing and directing such critically acclaimed films as Memento (2000), Insomnia (2002), The Prestige (2006), Inception (2010), and rebooting the Batman film franchise. Nolan is the founder of the production company Syncopy Films.
He often collaborates with his wife, producer Emma Thomas, and his brother, screenwriter Jonathan Nolan, as well as cinematographer Wally Pfister, film editor Lee Smith, composers David Julyan and Hans Zimmer, special effects coordinator Chris Corbould, and actors Christian Bale and Michael Caine.
Nolan's most critically and commercially successful film is The Dark Knight.
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User Reviews
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Reviews of the Past: The Pledge Intriguing, the Turn Effective, the Prestige Predictable
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From August 8, 2007:
Don't get me wrong from the title of this entry. I liked the Prestige. I liked the misdirection and twists and turns that director Christopher Nolan visits upon the viewer. It was a great Saturday-afternoon, sit-on-the-couch and eat popcorn rental. I was looking forward to this movie because I'm such a fan of Nolan, but ultimately, I can't say this was his best effort. This movie was slow and predictable, even if the path to the predictable outcome was not as predictable as the outcome itself. That is to say, the movie was one grand illusion with it's setup (the pledge) and its misdirection (the turn). Yet, the inevitable outcome (the prestige) I actually saw coming. It was one of the few movies where I smelled the ending a mile off, and it took such time to get there, I was ultimately unimpressed. What's more, the movie was released at or around the time of the release of the Illusionist, which contained similar plot elements but, I thought, was an ultimately better movie (though ultimately just as predictable). I guess I'm so jaded that magicians' tricks don't work on me so well. Unless done by David Copperfield. That's another story.
Rupert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) are top-notch illusionists who succumb to a bitter rivalry, endlessly envious of each other's abilities. This rivalry culminates when a trick of Borden's leads indirectly to the death of Angier's wife, once their beautiful assistant. The two then spend the entire movie trying to delve into each other's secrets, particularly each's individual take on the "Transporting Man," though each strike upon the other becomes a more serious and more...
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reviewed by Pippin2010 (Filmaster.com) on the 30th of January 2010
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Wow!!! Why does someone who can make movies like The Prestige & Memento waste his time with comic book movies.
This is one of my top 10 movies.