The Prestige (2006)

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Directed By Christopher Nolan Christopher Nolan Starring Hugh Jackman Hugh Jackman  •  Christian Bale Christian Bale  •  Michael Caine Michael Caine  •  Scarlett Johansson Scarlett Johansson  •  Rebecca Hall Rebecca Hall Genres Mindbender  •  Period Film  •  Psychological Thriller  •  Thriller Studios &
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Academy Award Nominated  •  Touchstone Pictures  •  Academy Award Best Cinematography Nominated  •  Academy Award for Best Production Design Nominated  •  Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film Nominated  •  Flickchart Road Trip  •  Time Out: London's 100 Best Sci-Fi Movies
Release Info 2006-10-20T00:00:00Z October 20, 2006
Color  •  130 minutes PG13 Rated PG13
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Mathías

Mathías on 7/24/2011 Reply  · 

Exelent movie, Nolan at his best.

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kookio

kookio on 8/6/2011 Reply  · 

Hugh Jackman, Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall & Piper Perabo also starred in this film.

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SquareMaster316

SquareMaster316 on 10/8/2011 Reply  · 

This film just continues to get better on every viewing. Each time reveals new layers and depth to characters actions

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PiccoloKing

PiccoloKing on 6/5/2013 Reply  · 

^ Agreed.

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JAZeringue

JAZeringue on 8/2/2014 Reply  · 

This is the type of movie that watching just once will have no effect on a person. Once you really get into the story, understand the ending, understand the rest of the story, you really see it unraveling from back to front.

It's kind of like E, D, C, B, A where you have to know A to get B to get C etc. and you HAVE to watch it those times to be reminded of the events that happened that you just weren't watching closely for (<- wording was not accidental)

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Koroy

Koroy on 3/13/2015 Reply  · 

My all time favourite movie

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AverageMovieBuff

AverageMovieBuff on 4/20/2015 Reply  · 

Probably Nolan's most engaging film. It sucks you in effortlessly. Very entertaining.

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copulman

copulman on 5/17/2015 Reply  · 

The more I watch this movie, the more I enjoy it. I really hope Nolan comes back to this genre again. It's been #3 on my list for a long time.

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LittleSocrates

LittleSocrates on 9/22/2015 Reply  · 

I feel like latter works by Nolan, Bale, and Jackman have each usurped the most impressive elements of this film and made it difficult to find so engaging. American Hustle actually undoes "the prestige;" the trick is too obvious now that we've seen Bale so many times, as Spacey ruined the trick to The Usual Suspects by repeatedly playing Spacey. Jackman's obsessed lead in Prisoners and Nolan's Inception simply outdo the film.

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PiccoloKing

PiccoloKing on 7/24/2018 Reply  · 

Come on brah... You're comparing Oscar-bait trash by David O. Russell to arguably Nolan's best film.

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Lifirenk

Lifirenk on 3/15/2018 Reply  · 

This movie is and will likely stay one of my favorite films for a long time simply because of the the two twists that you don't see coming. If there were any movie that I could forget just so I could re-experience the twist it would be this one.

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TheFireRises

TheFireRises on 1/17/2022 Reply  · 

Underrated, it's better than Begins, Inception and Memento imo.

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Crapbaskets123

Crapbaskets123 on 9/18/2022 Reply  · 

This movie is really fucking good. It's masterfully constructed, with strong themes, complex characters, great cinematography/editing, and has one of the greatest twists in film history. My one issue is that the story structure, while masterful in what it does, feels a little unnecessary. Unlike Memento, The Prestige didn't really need to be in a nonlinear format and it's not like the story is truly aided by the structure unlike a movie like Pulp Fiction. That being said, the film is still wonderful.

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