The Prestige - #82

Another post for the IMDB Top 100 Challenge. This brings me up to 8 new movies and 28 total.

IMDB rating: 8.3
My rating: 9.4

The Prestige is about two competing magicians around the turn of the 20th Century. I was really transported back to this era by the costumes and the elaborate mechanical props used in the magic tricks.

After seeing The Prestige, Christopher Nolan is cemented as my favorite writer/director. I don't know which movie I liked more, this one or Memento, also written and directed by Nolan. Other notable movies by Nolan include Batman Begins and The Dark Knight.

My only complaint about this movie is that it's hard to tell when in the timeline things are happening. It gets very confusing at the beginning, but it starts to come together at the end. Even after the movie, I was still a little confused on the order of things.

I loved this movie and highly recommend it to everyone.