The Prestige

As I’ve mentioned before, Christopher Nolan is a genius. However, as much as I love Inception, I can’t deny that The Prestige is somewhat of a flop. Now, no, this is far from the worst movie I’ve ever seen. Yet, amongst Nolan’s other films, this one just falls flat. I found that my main complaint was the same thing happening over and over again. The movie was just a constant loop of “magician makes revolutionary new trick, Magician tries it out and it works perfectly, other magician comes and sabotages it.” From beginning to end, all of this happened quite a few times. So, that’s the plot, but what about the characters? They’re dull, although the acting is great, and emotion is portrayed well, it’s very hard to tell them apart (Not based on looks, just the way they act). These are some relatively major complaints with the movie, but I would be stupid if I didn’t talk about the brilliant twist at the end and some of the wonderful visuals. I have also always been interested in Nicola Tesla stuff for some reason, so I really liked this. But still, I just had too many problems. Maybe it’s just my high expectation for Nolan, but this movie just didn’t really click for me 6.7/10