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sarkar368

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A truly original story with full of love and magic in the air and with an unexpected cool ending which turns the whole story.
The visuals are stunning and i was feeling as i was taken back to past by a time machine.The magic shows were act...
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A truly original story with full of love and magic in the air and with an unexpected cool ending which turns the whole story.
The visuals are stunning and i was feeling as i was taken back to past by a time machine.The magic shows were act but i was really feeling like watching a real magician doing this.
Finally its a very good movie with an wonderful story.

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Posted mar 20, 2008 10:25 pm pt

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Abracadabra !! I like this movie guys. Don't just watch it, feel it.I like the twist at the end, so neat. Why don't they make more films of this kind? I also recommend watching "The prestige" another gem. :D

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Posted nov 25, 2007 12:49 am pt

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Edward Norton is perfect in this film!
The end just seem too simple, but maybe that was the point. Maybe the things that an illusionist do are more simple than we think.

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Posted sep 5, 2007 8:51 am pt

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It was a magnificent movie I have ever seen and I will learn magic

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Posted jul 16, 2007 9:47 am pt

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Def one of the best movies of 2006 and as usual Norton delivers. This def makes up for the blemish "Down In The Valley". Still somewhat predictable but I guess what happens in a lot of movies so most prolly wouldn't predict the ending.

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Posted jun 29, 2007 12:44 pm pt

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While it does not suck, it does not 'wow' either, not like what Eisenheim does for his audience in the movie at any rate. It wasn't the acting that ruined it, I think it was good. The cinematography and soundtrack combined to give a sense of...
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While it does not suck, it does not 'wow' either, not like what Eisenheim does for his audience in the movie at any rate. It wasn't the acting that ruined it, I think it was good. The cinematography and soundtrack combined to give a sense of dreamlike surrealism, which is cool. It was the crappy and predictable plot that did it. It was the cheesy lines and absurd events and dumb motivations. It's a nice movie, to be sure, but not that nice. Nothing to go to the mattresses over. Just a popcorn movie you'd watch when there's nothing else good on TV.

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Posted jun 26, 2007 12:48 pm pt

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I liked this movie, a magic genre movie, kind of, like The prestige, but this is a little different from that movie. All the actors acted really well. The story was good. It was not boring at all, its felt like time is going fast, if you know what...
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I liked this movie, a magic genre movie, kind of, like The prestige, but this is a little different from that movie. All the actors acted really well. The story was good. It was not boring at all, its felt like time is going fast, if you know what I mean. The tricks were great in this movie, especially the disappearing trick. And in the end, the movie had a nice twist!!!!

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Posted may 10, 2007 3:21 pm pt

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So, here we are, after a week's break. First of all, let's start by saying that The Illusionist is a movie that I did not like very much, but the reason is a little different than the regular reason; this movie does not suck. The story, even...
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So, here we are, after a week's break. First of all, let's start by saying that The Illusionist is a movie that I did not like very much, but the reason is a little different than the regular reason; this movie does not suck. The story, even though admittably somewhat silly, is interesting and full of soap opera-style drama. And I mean that in a good way, you won't see an internet poker addicted former janitor or a retarded fat chick **** her cousin here, just stylish costume drama so to speak. Though I was somewhat annoyed by the fact that we never actually found out how Eisenheim did some of his tricks, which in my opinion created a relatively large plot hole since the film actually built part of itself around the mystery of how he did one of his illusions. I can appreciate some mind**** every once in a while, but here we never even got a slightest clue as to how he did his trick, which basically ruins all the fun of theorising since it's impossible to come up with any proof to support any theory. Also there's a twist ending, which I personally hate most of the time. They can work, but here the twist is just incredibly predictable and made in such a boring manner that I can't see how some people can enjoy it. Norton does great here, although nowhere near as good as he did in American History X. He's more like on a Fight Club-level here, playing it low key. Unfortunately that doesn't work too well sometimes, and makes Eisenheim come off like a cocky **** on a few occasions. That funny man you've seen in every other movie nowadays, Paul Giamatti does a good job here. I don't really understand why he has to shout all the time as inspector Uhl, but I suppose he just had some tension to let out. Biel is Biel, not a good actor and never will be, but she's pretty, and hence she does her job well here. The role of the Governor's wife really doesn't require top notch acting skills, especially since she doesn't even appear in about a third of the entire movie. The score of The Illusionist works surprisingly well, never making itself truly heard but yet keeping the happenings on screen become something more than just happenings on the screen. There truly are no great, big flaws in The Illusionist. Only some small ones. But the plot holes are incredibly annoying, and a few perforrmances don't work too well due to the weird way the actors charecterise their roles. I'd still recommend watching this if you can ignore such flaws.

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Posted apr 11, 2007 8:06 pm pt

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I saw this movie and i didnt think that it would be thats good , the story about edward norton the IIIusionist , the film countain a wonderful visual effects to watch the magic of the IIIusionist then come the story which its good and espically...
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I saw this movie and i didnt think that it would be thats good , the story about edward norton the IIIusionist , the film countain a wonderful visual effects to watch the magic of the IIIusionist then come the story which its good and espically in the end , u will discover the real meaning of the Movie.

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Posted apr 9, 2007 11:39 pm pt

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This movie started out slow, but got far better as the movie moved along. If you're a fan of Edward Norton you will most likely like this movie that features him as well. Norton plays a character who began to teach himself magic at an early age,...
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This movie started out slow, but got far better as the movie moved along. If you're a fan of Edward Norton you will most likely like this movie that features him as well. Norton plays a character who began to teach himself magic at an early age, and became an excellent illusionist who was selling out shows easily. This movie has a big twist at the end which I am not going to spoil, you will have to watch the movie to find out what it is.

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Posted apr 8, 2007 7:32 am pt

• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  100
  A lush piece of romanticism.

  by Jonathan Rosenbaum | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Post
  
  100
  Deserved an end-of-the-year prestige release, is a true work of art in a marketplace filled with velvet paintings. It's positively magical, the reason we loved movies in the first place.

  by Lou Lumenick | Read Full Review »
• [+] Village Voice
  
  90
  Beautifully acted and handsomely mounted, this gorgeous period piece is an intelligent and intriguing exploration of "the dark arts" -- less dependent on mere hocus-pocus than on the convincing journey of the soul undertaken by its hero.

  by Bill Gallo | Read Full Review »
• [+] Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  88
  The less said about the twists and turns The Illusionist takes, the better. Suffice to say, Eisenheim's masterful deceptions do not stop when he exits the stage.

  by Steven Rea | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  83
  The Illusionist looks rigorously styled and measured, and every one of Norton's postures feels chosen. Yet the interesting actor has chosen so thoughtfully that we're riveted.

  by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Hollywood Reporter
  
  80
  Outstanding production values and mysterious subject matter give the film a surprisingly opulent feel for an independent Sundance entry.

  by James Greenberg | Read Full Review »
• [+] Time
  
  80
  By the end, the canniest viewers may not be fooled, but--and you can believe this--they may be mesmerized.

  by Richard Corliss | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  80
  This entertaining movie is content to be something a bit more modest: a pungent period folk tale that teases you until the very end.

  by Stephen Holden | Read Full Review »
• [+] Slate
  
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  It's an exquisitely crafted period picture that keeps promising more and more as it goes along--smarter ideas, richer themes, spookier plot twists--and keeps delivering on every promise, right up until the rug-pulling and overly hasty final sequence.

  by Dana Stevens | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Magazine
  
  80
  The ending dispels a lot of the magic, but the silent-movie palette is gorgeous, and the film is worth seeing for the inspired hamming of Paul Giamatti as Vienna's chief inspector, whose plummy tones made me sure I could hear the ghost of James Mason cackling.

  by David Edelstein | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New Republic
  
  80
  What Burger and his colleagues have done is to entrance us with a richly acted, beautifully produced story.

  by Stanley Kauffmann | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  75
  This handsome, elegant and restrained fable about love, artifice and power in fin de siecle Vienna is lavishly imagined and yet oddly airless.

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  75
  A rich and elegant film, full of sly, devious characters with complicated motives.

  by Mick LaSalle | Read Full Review »
• [+] Baltimore Sun
  
  75
  This flight of fancy stays aloft on the power of its acting and its atmosphere.

  by Michael Sragow | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
  75
  Illusionist is like an overupholstered wing chair in the corner of a men's club -- you settle in only to be startled by how ridiculously comfy you are.

  by Ty Burr | Read Full Review »