The Prestige (If you haven't watched it, let me spoil it for you)

I was meaning to write something about "The Prestige" right after watching it a month ago but whoops! must've slipped my mind (my brain is quite wet and slippery these days).

Yes, I'm talking about that 2006 Hugh Jackman-Christian Bale starrer. Though quite highly-rated at IMDB (8.4 stars out of 10), I didn't really want to get into a deep discussion and debate about how the whole movie became predictable. Remember that scene when Hugh Jackman was at his wife's funeral, then a remorseful Bale shows up? Jackman was blaming Bale for the death of his wife, and it was sooo obvious that Jackman was going to say, "You didn't know? Pause. YOU DIDN'T KNOW????!!!". And it also doesn't take a genius to figure out that Christian Bale's character, Alfred Borden, did have a twin, that allowed him to do two important things - magically teletransport and screw two women at the same time.

What I wanted to discuss was...how do you stay focused on a movie that has two gorgeous men playing protagonist-antagonist? It's Interview with the Vampire all over again! Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise? Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise??? Darn that lucky brat Kirsten Dunst. And man, Antonio Banderas in the same movie? It's hormonal chaos.

Anyway, "The Prestige" ends with a climax, no pun intended. Go see it and you'll know what I mean.