I feel very strongly about hating the Prestige, but only because of the ending. I spent the whole final act thinking “oh, he’s not actually cloning himself, he’s just making it look like he is so that he can get back at his rival.” That’s what the message throughout the movie seemed to be, that you can make normal things look like magic. Kept waiting for that final twist, only to find that actually yes, Jackman’s character was using real magic. It felt like a cheap shot that a movie about rival stage magicians had to resort to fantasy magic in the end.