Freya
5 years
ago
Perfect.
Drew K
over 5 years
ago
Decent movie but awful accents
Mathias Eek
almost 6 years
ago
Not nearly as good as The Prestige, but still a great watch.
Zach Sly
7 years
ago
This film had promise, but next to the Prestige it falls far short of its expectations.
Nate McBean
over 7 years
ago
The Prestige was better.... (3/5/2011)
Akanksha Dhyani
over 7 years
ago
One of the most underrated movies of all time. It is just spectacular, to say the least.
Nuno Santos
over 7 years
ago
Amazing and well elaborated
Dorian Silenus
almost 8 years
ago
Much, much better than The Prestige. Gives you more to think about.
Kakra
almost 8 years
ago
9/10
Franco Metz
8 years
ago
The story is a bit bumby, but still okey.
Dylan Clites
8 years
ago
Decent enough, but with a crappy twist ending. Watch Nolan's The Prestige instead.
The Illusionist is a 2006 period drama written and directed by Neil Burger and starring Edward Norton, Jessica Biel, and Paul Giamatti. Based loosely on Steven Millhauser's story "Eisenheim the Illusionist", The Illusionist tells the story of Eisenheim, a magician in turn-of-the-20th-century Vienna.
The film premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and opened the 2006 Seattle International Film Festival; it was distributed in limited release to theaters on August 18, 2006, and expanded nationwide on September 1.
The film, which contains both fictional and historical characters, begins in medias res as Chief Inspector Walter Uhl (Paul Giamatti) moves to arrest Herr Eisenheim (Edward Norton) during what appears to be necromancy passed off as a magic show. He then begins to recount the story of Eisenheim for Crown Prince Leopold.
Eisenheim was born the son of a cabinetmaker in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. One day as a teenager, Eisenheim (played as a young man by Aaron Johnson) meets a...