I am thrusionist with the illusionist (lame title I know but I couldn't think of anything better.)

Yo! My name is Timmy and I am a new critic on this blog. I hate movies just as much as Erin does, so we thought it fitting to work on this thing together. Anyway here is my first review.
The Illusionist
Ok I think the only reason I saw this is because I really wanted to see the Prestige. I know that movie isn't even out yet, but I was so excited about it I saw this instead. It was horrible because I just thought about the other movie the whole time I watched this one. I felt like I was cheating on my girlfriend or something.
I guess what really drew me to the film was just the fact that I love the actors in it. Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti are two of my favorites. I would usually see anything Giamatti is in, with the exception of Big Mommas House, and I have been a big fan of Norton ever since my hardcore high school obsession with Fight Club. Here's the question I asked at the end: HOW DO YOU MAKE EVEN EDWARD NORTON LOOK BAD IN A MOVIE? Granted he wasn't awful, but he was no shining star either. But whatever here are my reasons why this movie was just bad.
The dialogue was horrendous. It was so much of "let me just tell you what I am feeling instead of being a smart director and showing you" There was absolutely no subtest in this film. Example at one point all these little peasant poor children run up to Nortons character. The director doesn't choose to show that they are poor, which could have been easily accomplished, he instead has them all proclaim as the run up to him "We are poor!" I laughed so hard. Some of the other lines are so melodramaticly cheesey that I don't understand how the actors could have said them without laughing.
The plot is anything special either. You feel like you are watching the last third of a movie. I really felt they made a really long film and just decided to show the last third of it. There was so much more interesting stuff they could have showed. How does he learn to be a magician? Where did he travel to to learn his craft? I am not saying get rid of the love story completely, but come there were a lot of things that could have made this a really interesting film. But hey maybe that wasn't the story that this filmmaker wanted to tell. Oh and speaking of story....
I am going to try and not spoil anything in case you do want to see this.



I can't promise anything






Ok don't read the paragraph after this line.



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Alright people love twist endings and I understand why the director executed this one in the way he did, however he could have done it in a better way. Twist endings are created for rewatch value. Yeah they are cool and sometimes very much a part of a story. But if you are going to have a twist at least but in the subtle clues of one. The audience should never realize that the twist is about to happen. They should be able to think back on the film and remember important elements that helped that twist work. There is a twist in the movie and only maybe one clue is shown before the end. All the other clues are shown to you in flashback mode, and it's stuff that was never shown to you in the first place, with the exception of one. If they were shown maybe I missed it. I don't know.
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So that's my first review. My others shouldn't be so lengthy I just had a lot to say about this one.
Laters
TIMMY!