Friday, January 30, 2009

ILLUSIONIST(2006)

Well, the thing that stands out is not Jessica biel’s beauty(no she doesn’t look million bucks and she doesn’t get a single wow moment... ) not cop Uhl’s not so mentionable act ,not crown –prince’s timely histrionics(to give the devil his due few of his authoritative blabs and late democracy bashing is passable) .....its the eyes..
At this point i risk sounding gay but hollywood’s answer to our KK menon could be none other than
Edward Norton...
Story hinges on the art and love of a magician who returns to the city of his doom where class disparities nipped his amorous voyage...15 years later our ordinary joe (wait...we are told he could get decent card magic and arcane pendent design back then) returns to the girl’s city and his magic seems to rub the girls fiancée on the wrong side...
Now the fiancé is no lame chic –charmer but the crown prince who carries the ignominy of lady hunting and our hero is supposed to vanish in thin air with his girl...

movie’s climax comes with the requisite surprise in the otherwise poetic justice (lame) ending..

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