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The Prestige
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
EAN: 0786936705157
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 25
Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0Spanish (Published), Dolby Digital 2.0
Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
MPN: 05065100
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 20, 2007
Running Time: 130 minutes
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
Theatrical Release Date: October 20, 2006
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Editorial Review:
A Friendship That Became a Rivalry...A Rivalry That Became a Battle.Rival magicians in turn-of-the-century London battle each other for trade secrets. The rivalry is so intense that it turns them into murderers. The title refers to the product of a successful trick.DVD Features:Available Subtitles: Spanish FrenchAvailable Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1) French (Dolby Digital 2.0) Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0)The Art of the Prestige GalleryThe Director's Notebook: The Cinematic Sleight of Hand of Christopher NolanSystem Requirements:Run Time: 130 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 786936705157 Manufacturer No: 05065100
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Very Well Done
I'm an avid movie fan and was not at all disappointed with this one. I like stuff with twists and turns that keeps your imagination and intellect busy and reeling. This was a fantastic movie and I have literally thought about it over and over. It's definately one to watch many many times. Do not blink or go to the bathroom. Definately enjoyable and twisty.
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Rating: - It Takes Two
NOTE: If you're wondering whether the Blu Ray purchase is a worthy one over the DVD, it is. The picture quality is consistenly completely smooth with a wonderful sense of depth that really shines through. The audio, meanwhile, is subdued but wonderfully so. The uncompressed surround is terrific. Now that the tech specs are out of the way, onto the bulk:
Ever since Christopher Nolan's little seen movie entitled Following, I knew we had a director worth keeping an eye on. Following ... Read More
Rating:  - The Masterpiece set in Steampunk ...
What can be said so early in the game about one of the greatest films ever made? Are you watching carefully? Did you miss something? Yes ... you heard right.
The Prestige is not the greatest film ever made, but it does belong in that special group of films that breaks the mold, sets a framework to be emulated and creates something within the film that is greater than the film itself. More questions than answers are put to the viewer as the movie progresses and the film has qualities ... Read More
Rating: - One of the best movies of 2006
I read quite a few other reviews, and from what I could gather is the people that had a problem with this movie are those who do not like to think at a movie and let the movie do the thinking for them. Don't get me wrong, that is all well and good. A lot of people either like this movie or The Illusionist better, and, no offense to these people, are not deep thinking people, at least to the ones that I know. (And most of them admit to being so). This movie is a great mystery movie, and I recommend it ... Read More
Rating: - Batman v Wolverine? No, But a Magic Storyline
Sorry kids, I still liked The Illusionist better. The Illusionist (Widescreen Edition)... Great to see Hugh Jackman in something other than X-Men. X-Men Trilogy (X-Men/ X2 - X-Men United/ X-Men - The Last Stand)
Even so, I've been looking forward to this film, written by Christopher Nolan and his brother Jonathan, based on the novel of the same name by Christopher Priest The Prestige. Naturally I knew the actors from their Batman Begins feature, and wanted to see how they'd act. Batman Begins ... Read More
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