The Prestige | 
| Director: Christopher Nolan
Actors: Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Michael Caine, Piper Perabo
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
Category: DVD
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Rating:  434 reviews
Sales Rank: 1497
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed), Spanish (Published)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 130 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: DISD50651D
UPC: 786936705157
EAN: 0786936705157
ASIN: B000LC55F2
Theatrical Release Date: October 20, 2006
Release Date: February 20, 2007
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Product Description
Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) are rival magicians whose epic obsessive battle to out-do one another's illusions conjures danger and destruction. Filled with unpredictable twists and turns, The Prestige is the riveting and uniquely twisted film that you can't watch just once. The exceptional cast also includes Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson and David Bowie.
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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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Prestige June 29, 2009
maybear
Good cast and excellent acting. Good story that keeps your attention with all the suspense. This is a movie that you will watch more than once.
 Intriguing, Ultimately Disappointing June 7, 2009
Rogue H (Austin, TX)
I was drawn to this movie because I am a fan of Christopher Nolan's other movies, such as Momento. The movie was typical of his work, featuring a dense, winding plot that requires film watchers to pay close attention at all times. I found the movie quite entertaining, and enjoyed piecing together the various plot clues and anticipating the 'twist' likely to occur at the conclusion.
Ultimately, however, I was disappointed by the film's final moments. I was intrigued by cutter's comment early in the movie that "You're a magician, not a wizard." I had hoped this was foreshadowing, and that all of the seemingly inexplicable events would somehow be logically converge in the end.
Quite to the contrary, the ending of the movie is pure sci-fi, and it cheapened a film which otherwise featured fantastic but logical screenplay.
 No ENGLISH closed captions for the hearing impaired May 23, 2009
Melody A. Luse
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
NO ENGLISH CLOSED CAPTION FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED. WOULD HAVE LIKED TO HAVE SEEN THIS MOVIE. OH WELL.
WHEN ARE YOU GUYS - THE PRODUCTION COMPANIES GOING TO WAKE UP?
 Listen... do you want to know a secret? May 10, 2009
bernie (Arlington, Texas)
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]
revenge is no illusion April 28, 2009
Daniel B. Clendenin (www.journeywithjesus.net)
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.
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