OUR REVIEW
by Dave White
Who's in It: Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, Rufus Sewell, Jessica Biel
The Basics: A magician in turn-of-the-20th-century Vienna, a guy who might actually be really magic, tries to win back the childhood love of his life. Meanwhile, a hammy prince is in the way and mysterious mysteries are afoot!
What's the Deal? Hey, all you absinthe-sipping Goths and fans of period pieces with big fancy hats? You guys have been unjustly ignored all summer while everyone else was salivating over snakes. Well, here's the movie for you. It's like a catalog of lush, velvet fainting couches you can go live in for a couple hours and pretend the world is more cruelly elegant a place than it is or ever really was.
What's for Lunch? That would be the script, if you're Sewell, who plays the prince of, I think, every country in Europe at once. Also? Cigarette holder waved around! That's how you know a prince means what he says.
But What Happens? Can't really tell you. It twists and turns and pretends to be a lot of things, including deep. But the less you know going in, the better.
What's Jessica Biel Doing in This? I know, right? It should be someone like, I don't know, any young British actress with at least one more of these kinds of movies under her corset. But crazily enough, she's pretty good, and so is the whole movie. You'll forget its weaknesses and give into its trance-inducting mood.
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