The Illusionist Details

[Highly rated reviewer]

I'm under no illusion...this is great !

This is a beautifully filmed really good film, that is made great by its actors. Edward Norton is just superb as Eisenheim the illusionist, but Paul Giamatti as the inspector, Jessica Biel as Sophie and Rufus Sewell as Crown Prince leopold are similarly excellent. The whole thing just comes together really well and makes for a really interesting film.

Although it is just a story, it does have a whiff of reality in the portrayal of Crown Prince of Austria, who was a real odd bod, who, to all intents and purposes ended the Habsburg monarchy on his controvertial death with his mistress in 1889. It is still not known if it was really suicide or if they were murdered.

This film is well worth a watch.

no a film to nap in

enjoyable film with super magic efficts/ tricks. But you need to keep alert to the end other wise the polt over takes you and you will miss the clues etc.

We watched the file a couple of time before returning it just to see the illusions to see if the wife could work them out 'oh theres the Strings' type of thing.

As i said a good entrtaining film that we sat with the mothering law and enjoyed