The Prestige

In one of the earlier scenes of the movie, Alfred and Robert are seen in the dressing room after one of their performances together.

Robert puts on a brown vest and crosses the room, and in the next shot he is seen pulling it on over his shoulders once again.

When Angier puts on his vest he buttons it up while talking to Julia then the shot switches.

After it goes back to him he is buttoning up his vest again.

Borden mentions that a "penny" could be slipped into the barrel of the pistol used for the bullet catch trick.

English pennies of this period were substantial and wide, much wider than the barrel of the pistol being used by Borden could accommodate.

As Angier is walking towards the box in Tesla's empty room, you notice the hotel manager deliberately bring his hands from behind his back to his front.

In the next shot, taken from behind, his hands are behind him again.

During the magic show where Alfred meets Sarah for the first time, on both sides of the stage there are statues looking exactly like the two guardian statues found in King Tutankhamen's tomb, but the tomb was not discovered until 1922.

After the double gives the "show" he takes out a drink while Angier is walking up the stairs, then he brings the drink to his side and as the camera angle switches he brings up two hands without the drink.

When Angier is walking up the mountain to Tesla's work area, the trees are wrong.

Foliage like that does not grow on the mountains in Colorado.

And if it did, there wouldn't be leaves.

When Borden and Olivia are speaking in Borden's workshop, Borden keeps switching between shots from leaning back with his arms crossed to leaning forward with his hands on the table.

During the two scenes in which Jackman and Caine discover playing cards attached to the bottom of their pint glasses, the glasses they are drinking from are 'Nonic' glasses.

These were designed in the 1960s to protect straight glasses from nicks and cracks when cleaned in automatic dishwashers.

The spider web shaped cracks that appear in the glass boxes when characters attempt to smash them indicate that they are made of laminated safety glass, which breaks into tiny pieces rather than large jagged shards.

Safety glass was not invented until the 1920s.

When Root is tied up above the stage after Borden sabotaged Angier's 'The Real Transported Man' trick, you can see what seems to be a security wire that comes out horizontally from both sides of the stage and is attached to Root as he is being lowered down.

When Sarah hangs herself in Borden's workshop, you can tell that the rope is attached to the top of her back and not around her neck.

When Angier gives the first show of his last 100, he explains the risks of the underwater-unleashing trick.

The camera switches between shots of him and Borden, and we see the crowd behind Borden (soundlessly) clapping although Angier is not done explaining.

When Borden writes down his secret for Angier by the cemetery, he clearly makes a period to indicate that he is done writing.

Later when Angier reads the note it only says "Tesla", without a period.

Near the end of Cutter"s Summation, Alfred Borden picks up his daughter with left arm.

It is very quick camera shot, but all five fingers are revealed.

When he visits Telsa in February, it is obviously winter, with snow on the ground.

Yet after a brief meeting they venture out to a balcony, were it appears to be obviously summer, with green foliage, and not breath visible.

When Angier and Root, both played by 'Hugh Jackman' (qv), are in a circular tracking shot together, Angier wobbles up and down slightly, revealing him to be the inserted visual effect.

Alley refers to Nikola Tesla as "Doctor".

However, Tesla received his first doctorate in 1908, several years after the events depicted in film take place.

If I watched this for the first time today I may feel differently. But I've loved this movie for a while and after seeing it again I went back and updated from 9 to 10 stars.

The movie did such a complete job of setting up for the major twists at the end that they became obvious too early. Otherwise, acting, script, etc.

Great twist after twist after twist! Maybe the final twist had something to be desired and could have taken the movie all the way to the upper echelons but like I say, MUST SEE !

The movie is astonishingly good. It kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time guessing what was behind this "Transported Man" trick.

This enjoyable and fresh story about intense rivalry among magicians is set in turn-of-the last century, London.Robert Angier(Hugh Jackman) his wife Julie McCullough(Piper Perabo) and Alfred Borden(admirable Christian Bale) are friends and magician's assistants.

The Prestige, I have to say, Mr. Nolan is close to my favorite filmmaker.

I have no words, how much I liked this movie. In short, its one of the ten best among that released after 2000.

This film is, on the surface, a story concerning rival magicians in Victorian London. But, at the heart of things, it is really a film about film-making.

Christopher Nolan directs this imaginative, original, and quite unpredictable story of two rival magicians(played effectively by Christian Bale & Hugh Jackman) who escalate their rivalry when Jackman's wife dies, and blames Bale for it. This leads to increasingly daring magic tricks, each trying to sabotage the other, until a double-twist ending that no one saw coming...