The best film of this year, last year, ANY year, 15 October 2006

Author: Rogue-32 from L A.


The Illusionist is the best movie I've ever seen, plain and simple.
It's perfect in ways I never knew a film could be perfect. Instead
of trying to come up with adjectives to describe the experience, I
will suggest instead - or rather implore - that you vigorously
ignore any comments that will give anything away about this
magnificently masterful (OK, OK, those are adjectives) film and just
go see it.

And no, I am not just saying this because Paul Giamatti (whom I have
a group for at Yahoo - a not-so-subtle plug:
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/talkpaul/) co-stars in it and
turns in yet another seamless, brilliant performance, and no, I'm
not just saying this because I've always been a huge fan of my
fellow Leo Edward Norton, who had me at hello years ago when I
caught him in Primal Fear; this is an actor who has grown immensely
with every role he's tackled since then, and his performance in this
movie - along with Giamatti's - is Oscar-worthy.

The Illusionist succeeds on levels that are far beyond the scope of
any words, in any review. From the opening credits, there is a spell
being cast, a palpable otherworldly feeling which permeates every
frame of this masterpiece. What I'm saying is, the film starts off
great and gets even greater. If you love movies like you say you
love movies, this is the movie for you.