The Prestige

2006 • 130 minute

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Award-winning actors Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine and Scarlett Johansson star in THE PRESTIGE, the twisting, turning story that, like all great magic tricks, stays with you. Two young, passionate magicians, Robert Angier (Jackman), a charismatic showman, and Alfred Borden (Bale), a gifted illusionist, are friends and partners until one fateful night when their biggest trick goes terribly wrong. Now the bitterest of enemies, they will stop at nothing to learn each other's secrets. As their rivalry escalates into a total obsession full of deceit and sabotage, they risk everything to become the greatest magician of all time. But nothing is as it seems, so watch closely.

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The movie details in the Prestige Award-winning actors Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine and Scarlett Johansson star in THE PRESTIGE, the twisting, turning story that, like all great magic tricks, stays with you. Two young, passionate magicians, Robert Angier (Jackman), a charismatic showman, and Alfred Borden (Bale), a gifted illusionist, are friends and partners until one fateful night when their biggest trick goes terribly wrong. Now the bitterest of enemies, they will stop at nothi

Probably Nolan's best movie along Memento. Good story, good acting, nice plot twist. It's funny, because it has the typical Nolan's on-Steroid pretentious element like "electric-cloning" but here it serves the plot to make a point regarding reality itself, so it is probably THE ONLY movie where it works. (In all his other movies the steroided-element it's there just to show off, and ends looking like a pretentious a hole who wants to presume his Ferrari.

first time I paid for a movie, it is only 480p, even though I paid extra to get the HD version. Last time I ever paid for a movie, this is bullocks