Reviews

I have never been more disappointed in a series than I was with this. Okay. Maybe the series finale of Dexter was worse, or as bad. I REALLY wanted to love this. I love Jodie Foster in almost every single movie she's in. This series was a big nothing burger. It was a creepy setup with scary visuals. It couldn't decide what it wanted to say. All the little first season connections teased at what could have been, but never were. What started as a building whodunit became a ludicrous jumbled mess. This whole series could have been done in a two-night three-hour show if you edit out all the unrelated and unnecessary sideshow fluff. They could have had a more fulfilling, and better written, conclusion if they had just used Clue cards (the boardgame). In the end it was everyone did it in the science station with the dagger. But with nary a scrap of evidence.

Who wrote this garbage?

BOO! HISS!

I accidentally found this little jewel while I was searching for another film of the same name a few years ago. I was absolutely enchanted and enamored. It's so beautiful and tragic. I found the protagonist to be like myself, of an age. He's both lonely and lost, having discovered the world has moved on without him. He finds a young fan who is charmed by his magic and his worldly travels. She follows him and they enter into a father-daughter type of relationship. Only the illusionist finds himself falling in love with the young lady. All the while the illusionist finds his audience disappearing, like the rabbit in his show. The story is warm and sad, but it is also magical. All of it told with images and virtually no dialog. It is not intended as animated entertainment for kids. I loved it so much that I purchased it, and I have watched it many times. Don't pay any attention to the hater reviews. This is real art, and most of today's movie goers disdain anything that eschews nudity, violence, or profanity.