Too much of the good stuff

emilberth

I love magic, and I could watch it all day long, but the way they changed camera angles right as the trick was being performed and the awful CGI when he pulls his wife out of the bigger bag completely ruined the illusion of magic for me.
Examples of bad tricks: we don't get to see him from behind when he does the balloon trick, we don't get to see the bottom of the can, when be pops the ring into it and the aforementioned CGI with the wife.

The point of magic tricks is to make an illusion JUST believable enough. When you go overboard as they did on this series, you completely ruin the very illusion you're trying to create.

score 1/10

emilberth 27 August 2018

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw4307725/