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NOW YOU SEE IT... AGAIN Thankfully, DVD lets you revisit fleeting moments in The Prestige's cinematic sleight of hand between rival magicians Christian Bale (pictured) and Hugh Jackman
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Release Date: Oct 20, 2006; Rated: PG-13; DVD Release Date: Feb 20, 2007; Genres: Crime, Mystery; With: Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman and Scarlett Johansson; Distributor: Touchstone Pictures

Thank God this movie's on DVD, because when it ends you're going to want — and need — to watch it again. Directed by Batman Begins and Memento's Christopher Nolan, The Prestige confidently steals some of the latter's time-shifting complexity and turns it into a tale of science and magic in Victorian-era England, as two dueling magicians (Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale) play a revenge-fueled game of one-upmanship, culminating in an amazingly dark conclusion. EXTRAS Disappointing: only a series of short featurettes in lieu of a Nolan commentary track. A-


Posted Feb 14, 2007
 

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