The Prestige is a Christopher Nolan project dropped in between the first two Batman movies he made, but also here Christian Bale have one of the leads. The other lead is played by Hugh Jackman, while Scarlett Johansson, Piper Perabo, Rebecca Hall, Andy Serkis, David Bowie and most of all Michael Caine supports. It's a great cast, and they've got a very interesting script to work with.
Two magicians at the end of the Nineteenth Century in London, at a time where magic were the highest form of entertainment. They start out as their fellow mentor's helpers, and we get to follow their lives as friendship become rivalry and new tricks to overshadow the other become the holy grail. It's a story about obsession, jealousy, rivalry, revenge, deceit, trickery and about the lengths you'll have to go to succeed, how dirty you got to get your hands while doing it and the everlasting consequences of your choices, just to mention a little and avoid spoilers as best I can.
More importantly the cast is great as well, never dragging the story down, the time-period is accurately depicted and it's once again a story reminding us it's possible to look both great at the surface as well as underneath it all. You just got to want to make such movies, and Nolan does thankfully do that ever so often. Looking back at the decade we've just passed by, to me Christopher Nolan was the most important and the best director of that, just like Quentin Tarantino was for the 90's. Tarantino ended the 00's with his stunning
Inglourious Basterds, making sure we still remember just how good he is. Nolan's
Inception is making its way through the cinemas now, making sure he still is one of the most interesting directors as a new decade is upon us.
It's still well worth going back looking at his earlier works, and
The Prestige is all the way up there very close to
Memento.
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