Good flick. Didn't get it figured out the first time, watched it again and it was blatantly obvious. Not sure how I missed out the first time. Guess I was too close!

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lostleader said:

Good flick. Didn't get it figured out the first time, watched it again and it was blatantly obvious. Not sure how I missed out the first time. Guess I was too close!

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I so agree with you... LOL

I wouldn't say I figured it out right away, but I told my wife how I thought it should end and by the time they had hit you over the head with a few red herrings I started to figure I might have called it. Still got the "good call" + high five. It was good, but it could have been better if there was more backstory earlier. Trying not to give anything away, but if there's a who?, how?, and why?, it would have been nice if they revealed the why earlier without giving up the who and the how.

I enjoyed it and was also disappointed somewhat.

It was attempting to be realistic, in the fact that everything could be debunked by Morgan Freeman, but the fact is about 80% of what was "magic" was actually CGI. I think they could have made it better will less over-the-top special effects, and more actual prestidigitation.

I actually didn't figure out the ending until the ending, I followed one of the red herrings as my pre-ending conclusion, and was wrong, but I suppose that's what the writers were aiming for.