Although the film's stunning reveals make the audience realise it has been duped... there is a protagonist to empathise with each time.

It's quite a movie -- atmospheric, obsessive, almost satanic.

An example of old-fashioned storytelling, the kind of magical movie that could have been made fifty years ago and, consequently, will still be watched fifty years from now.

20 years later, 'The Prestige' rises from the pack as Christopher Nolan's "early period" masterwork: a lush and exhilarating depiction of dueling worldviews, shared obsessions, and the emergent challenges and horrors of our godless, technocratic world.