The Prestige is set in the late 1800’s and tells the story of two magicians who are locked in a competition to be the best magician in London.

Robert Angier, played by Hugh Jackman (recognizable as Wolverine from the X-Men) and Alfred Borden played by Christian Bale both find success leapfrogging each other as the top magician in London but at one point the Christian Bales’ character invents an unstoppable trick that vaults him to incredible success.

Driven by jealousy, revenge and an inability to reverse engineer how Bale creates his illusion, Hugh Jackman sets out to develop an even better trick that ultimately leads the audience towards two incredible twists at the end.

Truthfully, I’m a HUGE fan of Christian Bale. I can hardly think of a film i’ve seen him in that I didnt like or where his character was unconvincing. This film is nothing less. He does a great job and seeing him act is as good a reason to see this film as any. Wolverine on the other hand is Wolverine and I had a hard time overcoming that point and found his acting in the final scenes a bit unconvincing. To my surprise David Bowie has a pretty decent part that he pulls off very well as the true to life scientist Nicolas Tesla.

The movie, the plot, the pace were all pretty average. The film started off a bit slow and never developed much beyond a trot (not that all films have to) however this one seemed to drag on a bit long and came off a bit empty.

Its a movie I think is worth seeing, but i’d Netflix this one and save the Cinema for something better.

IMDB gives it 8.1 stars out of 10. I give it closer to 6.5

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