Two more days abroad
Comments(0) Yay… a two day trip this time… to Shanghai.
Movies:
San Wa (The Myth): Jackie Chan meets “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon” meets “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”. Switches between “memory scenes” and the present. Standard Jackie Chan action with a little more blood than usual. Interesting twist in the ending. Probably a movie that we’ll see in three more years when Hollywood runs out of other ideas. (7/10)
The Prestige: Alright… so maybe I’m an engineering geek born in the 80s, Christopher Nolan gets bonus points for making a role for Nikola Tesla (even if a completely unrealistic by David Bowie). Along with points for including Batman (Christine Bale), Alfred (Michael Caine) and Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) for my comic fanboy-ism. Anyway, the story… Two up-and-coming stage magicians trying to consistently one up the other. Nice tidbits of magician trade secrets are spouted, which I’m sure are still valid today. The competition / comparison angle saturates the movie (science vs. magic, Edison vs. Tesla). The timeline tends to jump around a bit, but there is a good twist (bit of a stretch) to the ending (very M. Night Shamalan-ish). The movie is executed like a well done magic trick. You know it’s a trick, but it’s still entertaining. (8/10)
