The Illusionist: Directed and Written by Neil Burger, Starring: Edward Norton, and Paul Giamatti.9/22/2014 In the other Neil Burger work that I have seen there sadly has been a really large laziness. Limitless just failed to use a compelling story to make anything interesting. Even worse was Divergent. Oh boy that wasn't good. Which makes me wonder how he could have made this. That's not to say that this is a great movie,but at least The Illusionist has a freshness to it mainly in it's very performances, and decent twists. Edward Norton plays Eisenheim a fantastic illusionist who eventually is reunited with his young love (Jessica Biel). However she is engaged to the prince and he still loves her and inspector (Paul Giamatti) and blah blah blah. That's not what makes the movie. The story is not that interesting. The thing that makes the movie good is the fact that it has a mystical style to it. On the surface the story is a paper thin story (with a very easy to guess twist). What keeps you there is the illusion. The whole thing really is an illusion, but what I'm saying is the style and performances. Also the illusions are great. The work that can be done with CGI making all of this look real this is just fantastic. This is really all I can say. Plot's not that interesting, but performances are good, and so are the effects. Solid, and creative piece of work. I give The Illusionist a 7 out of 10.
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