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The Illusionist (Full Screen Edition)
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Rating:  - one of the BEST Edward Norton Films!
everyone recommended this movie to me, and im glad they did. this is by far one of the best movies Edward Norton has done. word to the wise, watch it from the beginning to understand what happens, esp at the end of the movie. definately an ending i wasnt ready for.
Rating:  - A smart and fun ride.
The Illusionist has great acting and a good story.
It tends to drag in a few places but it's definitely worth a rental.
The magical tricks are fun and interesting to watch.
The ending was kind of.......... Ho hum.
Not nearly as good as The Prestige, but if your looking for a solid movie based on magic then this movie is a good place to start.
Rating: - Just a little better than the Prestige!
This movie has about the same idea as the prestige but this is only one magician. And this movie shows his true powers and abilities. it definitely is a great movie with a few twists in it. If you like the prestige then you will definitely like this movie a lot more. Don't get me wrong i have both movies i just like this one a little more than the other.
Rating:  - The Illusionist DVD
I liked this movie! Very convincing! If you like mystery and magic you'll like it too!
Rating:  - Post-production can't save a bland screenplay
This movie falls flat from an unbearably generic plot as well as a thinly veiled attempt to cover its complete lack of creative thought or depth with special effects and an attempt at artistic quality that only goes so far as, "Say it with more accent," and "What if we gave the whole film a sepia tone to make it seem more 'historic?'"
There are reasons that we go to see magicians in person rather than simply watch them on TV; one of the biggest being that nothing is really amazing when it could just as easily have been done with TV special effects. This sums up pretty much every trick in The Illusionist. There are no real magic tricks here, and subsequently no explanation for how the 'tricks' really (though the movie pretends there are.) This is because the tricks don't actually work; they're "movie magic" masquerading for the real thing.
The love story is a rehashed, "she's rich, he's poor, the world doesn't understand," sort of thing. There's no real romantic chemistry, so they cover it up with a bare leg sex montage. The character development is done mostly through voice-over narration. You'll never see the final twist coming because it's so contrived.
There's a reason this movie was released in theaters a little over a month before The Prestige. Once you've seen that undoubtedly superior film The Illusionist becomes almost unwatchable. I gave it a second star because as bad as it is, I've sadly seen much worse things come out of Hollywood recently.
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