Early The Prestige reviews are coming out, and they don’t look great. As a matter of fact, I’m really disappointed in what I’m reading. The Prestige has been one of the films I’ve most been looking forward to seeing ever since watching the trailer a few months back… but so far no one I’ve talked to who has seen it is raving about it. A bunch of people like it… but didn’t love it. Damn!!
Here is what some of the critics are saying in their “The Prestige” reviews:
>“Pic insists on a depth of human emotion that isn’t developed — protags emerge as one-dimensional, despite the efforts of two of our best leading actors — amid increasingly elaborate, uninvolving plot mechanizations.”
Dennis Harvey – VarietyThe Prestige isn’t art, but it reaps a lot of fun out of the question, How did they do that?
Owen Gleiberman – Entertainment WeeklyA dazzlingly complicated narrative; indeed, it might prove a little too complicated for many viewers.
Andy Klein – Los Angeles CityBeatAudiences might enjoy this cinematic sleight of hand, but the key characters are such single-minded, calculating individuals that the real magic would be to find any heart in this tale.
Kirk Honeycutt – Hollywood Reporter
As of right now, The Prestige is holding a disappointing 60% on Rotten Tomatoes. Much lower than I was hoping for.
Ok, let me use a sports analogy here. Sometimes, when a GREAT football team is playing a crap team this week, but a GOOD team next week, they’ll be so focused on next week that they forget to give their full attention to the team they’re playing NOW and get beat… my question is… COULD THAT BE THE CASE HERE? Could Nolan have been too preoccupied with Batman 2 stuff that he didn’t have enough focus on The Prestige??? Just a thought. Tell me what you think after you see the film.
