Death Defying Acts

Looking at the cast and the subject, Harry Houdini, I was looking forward to this movie. For some reason, I really enjoy magician movies. The Illusionist and The Prestige were great. This movie was not. An interesting premise with some great ideas of character development with Harry just didn't add up to a complete movie. If this movie was supposed to be more of a character study, which I gather it was, there wasn't enough character development. If it was supposed to be a love story, a plot which took up a lot more of the story, it failed miserably because Houdini was married, and therefore, was cheating on his wife with the so called loved interest. Grrrrr. This film should have steered clear of the love angle and stayed with the character study. It would have been far more compelling. What a waste of the terrific Guy Pearce and Catherine Zeta Jones.

* for the acting.