From Christopher Nolan, comes a mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences. From the time that they first met as young magicians on the rise, Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) were competitors. However, their friendly competition evolves into a bitter rivalry making them fierce enemies-for-life and consequently jeopardizing the lives of everyone around them.
This was a really well done movie. The problem with it is that it came out in such close proximity with the previously reviewed The Illusionist that it was very hard to differentiate between the two of them and/or not be biased towards one of them being better. I preferred The Illusionist and found myself judging this movie against it the whole time I was watching it. It's not that The Prestige isn't good. It definitely watchable, but I didn't like it nearly as much as the other one.
I would still recommend anyone interested in checking this out to rent it because my biased viewing prevents me from fully endorsing this one either way.
