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Weighing in at 9 hours and four minutes, or so it seems, with an incomprehensible plot about the rivalry between two magicians, one being Christian Bale WHO MUST be James Brolin's son, with Americana actors doing TERRIBLE British accents (is there a shortage of genuine Brits willing to act in movies?) and Scarlett Golden Globes who sometimes has an accent, and then sometimes forgets it, and David Bowie although his acting is good, forgets that Tesla had an Italian accent, and Ricky Jay who is in this one, and consulted on the other "magic" turkey...god its awful.
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It was an enjoyable film to watch if you're interested in the inner workings of magic shows. It probably won't go down as a classic as the movie itself comes off as Bale's character describes: "never give away the secret of the trick. Once they know the secret, you are nothing to them." The secret was given to the audience therefore the movie becomes less because of it.The gaping plot hole is why did Bale's character go backstage to investigate Jackman's character's trick? Bale *told* Jackman's character the method. The whole premise of the story is deflated. Or is that the point....that the veiwer *wants* to be fooled just like a magic trick.
Tom §.
Bale's character does NOT know how Jackman's character does his Real Transported Man. It is simply not a double, because the Transported Jackman SOUNDS identical to the original Jackman when he speaks. In his initial "Improved Transported Man," they found a double who looked like Jackman, but could not speak like Jackman, and the double had to keep his mouth shut at the end of the trick.
The Bale twins did not know how Jackman's trick was done. When the one Bale twin sent Jackman to Tesla it was meant to be a wild goode chase. Tesla was only the key to the cipher for Bale's notebook. The notebook was purposely left incomplete. Bale's one twin came up with the wild goose chase as an FU. That Tesla was able to come up with a "real" magic trick for Jackman was a fateful plot twist.
I had no trouble following the plot. In fact I thought it was extraordinarily tight. And it is always nice to see it serve the purpose of driving the underlying theme. Production value was top notch and served the story. Interesting thing about the accents. Hugh Jackman was doing an American accent. Worked for me. yeah Scalett Johanson sucked. She always does. Which American actors were doing bad Brittish accents besides her?
...and for DUI's info, Christian Bale is British, so his Cockney is almost second nature. The weird thing is Jackman, who is an Aussie, doing an American accent in London.
what I was thinking when I went to see this one at the theater. I think I want movies to be good but it often does not happen - and this is no exception. How can you care about magic or the people that do magic? These guys were jerks and this is another big convoluted mess of a movie made in America.
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