Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Dalton (A) on October 28, 2006 at 18:32:19

In Reply to: The Prestige posted by PhilJ on October 28, 2006 at 13:51:44:

*Spoiler*

Since the tone of the movie was fairly serious, the acting was good, the sets and script were good and the "transporter" device was ostensibly built by Nicolai Tesla - a real scientist of the time, the cheap and disingenuous ending took me by complete surprise. As the story progressed, I was expecting a crime mystery to be resolved in a rational way. Even as the movie plodded along and the plot kept painting itself deeper into a corner that became more and more difficult to explain in terms that obey nature laws of physics, I naively continued to hold out hope that the film was smarter than it ultimately is - that we would get satisfactory answers. And I was ready to be "wowed" at how I was fooled.

I can say this - that ending sure did take me by surprise! A real machine that creates exact (clothed) clones of adult human beings - down to the exact same thoughts and memories - and conveniently deposits either the clone or the original (random choice) within the machine and the other 30 feet away? Give me a break! What a cop out.