The Prestige
by Christopher Nolan
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Actor: Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Michael Caine, Piper Perabo, Scarlett JohanssonDirector: Christopher Nolan
Brand: Prestige
Producer: Christopher Nolan
Writer: Christopher Nolan
Producer: Aaron Ryder
Producer: Charles J.D. Schlissel
Producer: Christopher Ball
Writer: Christopher Priest
Writer: Jonathan Nolan
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0; Spanish (Published), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 130 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-02-20
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
DVD Reviews of The Prestige
DVD Review: Listen... do you want to know a secret?
Summary: 5 Stars
Do you promise not to tell?
The first part is called the pledge.
The second act is called the turn.
The third part is the prestige.
This movie, "The Prestige" starts out looking like any other formula rival movie you know pretty much how it's going to end; yet you are intrigued with the details of the journey. We have seen twists and turns before and are no stranger to them so we expect twists and turns during and at the end of the movie or do we?
Two friends who are aspiring magicians take part in a tragedy that will change their lives. Do these magicians really care about anybody or anything or are they just intent on doing one trick better and knowing the other persons secrets? Who is to say what magic really is?
During this movie is almost impossible to take your eye off the ball. So you may not realize the a lot of the best acting was done by Michael Caine as Cutter the man who helps most everybody throughout the movie.
Now I know there's still a few of you out there that are intrigued with the details of the presentation such as Blu-Ray. However it's time now to realize that we raise just one more tool and is now commonplace. However, I can tell you that you will not be disappointed.
The Thirteenth Floor [Blu-ray]
DVD Review: revenge is no illusion
Summary: 4 Stars
Two magicians, Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale), started out as partners and friends, but then a tragic stage accident made them bitter enemies. Set in turn-of-the-century England, the film takes us behind the scenes, as it were, to learn the mechanics of magic, its craft, secrets, and showmanship. But this film is more about the men than their magic--it's about their obsessions, egos and envy. Angier and Borden do everything they can to destroy each other. They sabotage each other's performances, steal secrets, ping pong the beautiful assistant Olivia between them as a lover-spy, and contrive every and any advantage over the other. They intend to destroy one another, and one of them succeeds. The film gets its name from the third part of every magic trick. After the "pledge" to do something outrageous and the "turn" of events, the "prestige" is "the part with the twists and turns, where lives hang in the balance, and you see something shocking you've never seen before." That description fits not only the magicians but their very own lives.DVD Review: An Homage To Tesla and Edison
Summary: 5 Stars
For most people this movie is only about two stage-magicians who battle at outwitting each other by back-stabbing and stealing each others industrious "magic tricks", but to anyone who knows anything of history, the story is more in depth than that in that it is in fact an homage to Tesla and Edison battling over AC, or Alternating Current, and DC, or Direct Current, and that both men would go to any means necessary to come out on top.
The subtle nuances aside, the movie was brilliantly done, and Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine as well as Scarlett Johansson all deserve much praise for this plot-twisting movie.
Whether you watched it, or watch it after purchasing it now, and watch it for the magic, or the wizardry of thes powerful men, you will love its suspense and plot-twisting to the bitter end.
DVD Review: Rather depressing movie.
Summary: 2 Stars
I have enjoyed most all of the movies that Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman have done, so I thought that with the two of them together this film would be a great one. It wasn't. I couldn't keep track of the plot after a certain point, and it quickly devolved into the two of them just trying to one-up each other, like two kids arguing over whose dad is better. I never felt any positive emotions from anyone and I ended the movie feeling kind of depressed. Not the way I like to leave a movie. It was also incredibly dark during certain parts which made it a little more difficult to see what was going on. Mainly, this movie confused and upset me.DVD Review: The Prestige
Summary: 3 Stars
I ordered this product for my son-in-law who lives in Costa Rica. It was delivered to a friend out of state who was traveling to Costa Rica. I am writing this review so that I won't keep getting emails asking me to write a review. We own this particular dvd ourselves and enjoy it.
Description of 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 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. And be prepared to watch it again and again.The Prestige attempts a hat trick by combining a ridiculously good-looking cast, a highly regarded new director, and more than one sleight of hand. Does it pull it off? Sort of. Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman play rival magicians who were once friends before an on-stage tragedy drove a wedge between them. While Bale's Alfred Borden is a more skilled illusionist, Jackman's Rufus Angier is the better showman; much of the film's interesting first half is their attempts to sabotage--and simultaneously, top--each other's tricks. Even with the help of a prop inventor (Michael Caine) and a comely assistant (Scarlett Johansson), Angier can't match Borden's ultimate illusion: The Transporting Man. Angier's obsession with learning Borden's trick leads him to an encounter with an eccentric inventor (David Bowie) in a second half that gets bogged down in plot loops and theatrics. Director Christopher Nolan, reuniting with his Batman Begins star Bale, demonstrates the same dark touch that hued that film, but some plot elements--without giving anything away--seem out of place with the rest of the movie. It's better to sit back and let the sometimes-clunky turns steer themselves than try to draw back the black curtain. That said, The Prestige still manages to entertain long after the magician has left the stage--a feat in itself. --Ellen A. Kim
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