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The Prestige (2006)

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Average Rating: 7.1/10
Reviews Counted: 188
Fresh: 142 | Rotten: 46

Full of twists and turns, The Prestige is a dazzling period piece that never stops challenging the audience.

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Average Rating: 6.2/10
Critic Reviews: 45
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 19

Full of twists and turns, The Prestige is a dazzling period piece that never stops challenging the audience.

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Obsession, jealousy, and deceit define the tense relationship shared between two turn-of-the-century magicians in Memento and Batman Begins director Christopher Nolan's dizzying tale of sleight of hand. Rupert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) are London-based magicians of the highest order, both blessed with spectacular powers of deception and both cursed with unrelenting envy for one another's skills. When Alfred performs an awe-inspiring trick for which there seems no

Feb 20, 2007

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The film is never less than engaging, though considering that the title The Prestige refers to the moment in a magic act that gives it its "wow" factor, it's kind of a shame that the ultimate "reveal" in the movie is a little too tricky for its own good.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: NPR.org
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It's quite a movie -- atmospheric, obsessive, almost satanic.

September 7, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comments (4)
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The who's-bilking-whom mind games make for compelling fun, but once the presto moment of The Prestige is revealed, you're left with nothing but shattered illusions.

February 3, 2007 Full Review Source: Time Out New York
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Not only does it tell you how it's all done, it takes so long about it that you've got time to look up its sleeves and work it out for yourself.

November 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comments (2)
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Jackman and Bale give standout performances as rivals whose mutual obsession destroys all sense of perspective and ruins lives.

October 25, 2006 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper
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The film is lavishly mounted, set-wise, costume-wise, makeup-wise and special-effects-wise. But the magicians themselves are cold and devious, and the chill permeates the whole film.

October 25, 2006 | Comments (5)
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Until an inexplicably awful revelation at the end, The Prestige is a taut, exciting portrait of obsession and the dark competitive spirit of professional magicians.

September 19, 2009 Full Review Source: Film and Felt | Comments (2)
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Risible inanity

August 28, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion | Comments (15)
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Although the slowish pacing early on over-indicates how both magicians' marquee misdirection (a disappearing act) will be achieved, The Prestige still manages a neat trick of its own.

April 23, 2009 Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix
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Show me a director better suited for a movie about magic than Christopher Nolan and I'll show you... a magician?

November 20, 2008 Full Review Source: Hollywood.com
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Rival magicians battle in smart, dark period tale.

July 16, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
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"The Prestige" is a cinematic trick, nothing more, and the deadpan seriousness is part of the effect, and not an end in itself.

April 17, 2008 Full Review Source: Beyond Hollywood
Beyond Hollywood

In a movie about people who make their livings on misdirection, The Prestige utterly forgets to employ its own.

February 28, 2008 Full Review Source: BrandonFibbs.com | Comments (19)
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September 28, 2007 Full Review Source: Index.hr

Nolan balances Hollywood and indie sensibilities pulling off a film that is smart, complicated and carries a big look.

August 13, 2007 Full Review Source: Calgary Movies
Calgary Movies

As the magicians attempt various versions of "The Transported Man," you can't help but feel transported yourself to a time when magic was the big entertainment.

July 25, 2007 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis
Movie Metropolis

As is his want, Mr. Nolan jumps between time periods and voice-overs with reckless abandon. The movie's real trick is that it all somehow manages to congeal.

July 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound | Comment (1)
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You wouldn't have guessed it from The Prestige's marketing, but this movie about rival Victorian magicians is actually a science fiction film . . .

June 4, 2007 Full Review Source: Sci-Fi Movie Page
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An example of old-fashioned storytelling, the kind of magical movie that could have been made fifty years ago and, consequently, will still be watched fifty years from now.

March 24, 2007 Full Review Source: UGO

Audience Reviews for The Prestige

six or seven dollars worth of movie
June 4, 2007
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    1. Robert Angier: Man's reach exceeds his imagination!
    – Submitted by Typhon Q (56 days ago)
    1. Olivia Wenscombe: It's inhuman to be so cold.
    – Submitted by Kia M (2 months ago)
    1. Robert Angier: He's out of his mind!
    2. Olivia Wenscombe: He's an out-of-work actor, of course he's out of his mind.
    – Submitted by Kia M (2 months ago)
    1. Olivia Wenscombe: You're going to need a better disguise.
    – Submitted by Kia M (2 months ago)
    1. Olivia Wenscombe: You're going to do something to that man, aren't you?
    – Submitted by Kia M (2 months ago)
    1. Cutter: The Real Transported Man is the most sought-after illusion in the business and I have te right to sell it on.
    – Submitted by joseph j (4 months ago)

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Foreign Titles

  • Prestige - Die Meister der Magie (DE)
  • Le Prestige (FR)
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