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I knew it was about magic - but I went anyway. I knew it had Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale who were magician rivals a long time ago - but I went anyway. I knew it would probably be a hollow shell of a movie - but I went anyway.You probably know enough about the premise so I will tell you, this movie did almost nothing for me, it looked neat and flashy - a bad sign- it just had no substance. The ending was kind of neat, if it had come 40 minutes sooner I would have enjoyed it more.
Also there is too little of Piper Perabo, what a shame, also Michael Caines role was not very instrumental to the movie.
Sorry to be such a Wilbur Whiner but thumbs down from me.
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mmmm...love those eyes and smile...
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What does that mean? Does she too have the dreaded "lantern jaw"? Richard Roeper was gaga over her when she was a teenager.
Scarlett was dropping her accent more frequently than her panties.
she was also in a movie called: Lost and Delirious and really impressed me with her passion, it is worth a look for fans of hers
*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.
...than at least one *spoiled* member of it's audience and still managed to be great entertainment in spite of it's flaws.Here's a clue, master Dalton: Not every film has to obey the laws of natural physics in order to be good rousing entertainment; suspension of disbelief is a job of the actors and, to a slightly lesser degree, scriptwriters. If there was any failure with this film it's that the visual effects crew got carried away trying to create too many dazzling images to fool both the period theater audience and cinema audience that seem to preclude the possibility of Victorian smoke & mirror trickery. Personally, I had no problem with the "electrifying" elements (via Tesla) that eventually ventured into the supernatural and the grisly shaggy-dog subplot, but the Director could've dialed back the FX in post-production to better effect in a couple of scenes.
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and that was one of the factors for me to watch this one. Memento had a neat devise and I usually like Guy Pearce too.I forget what else Christopher Nolan did but my opinion of him has gone down a bit. Maybe he just needed money to make the film he really wants and so made this Hollywood film.
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