I watched this recently. I liked it, but I'm not sure how I feel about the special effects being used to portray the illusions. On one hand, they have to give modern audiences the sense of awe an audience from that period would have experienced with tricks which might be obvious to us now. But on the other hand, it's . . . sort of cheating? Not sure. Good movie regardless. The weird thing is that I saw The Prestige like a week earlier. Now that movie goes a bit far afield in the magic realm, no? Why do movies with similar themes seem to crop up close together all the time?
