http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482571/

I didn't finish this movie, I watched maybe a third and then I got sick of it. I started skipping ahead and then just closed it.

The setting is around 1870 or so. And the story is about some magicians in fierce rivalry trying to make it big. But it's just not believable. Christian Bale and Scarlett Johansson are serious actors, but it also featured Hugh Jackman (from X-men) and Michael Caine. But I couldn't take it as something serious, neither the rivalvy, their personal lives, them as characters, or much of anything.

At the end of the day this movie isn't about anything and tries to keep you interested with a mix of good and semi-good actors and some stagework and whatnot, but it fails entirely if you ask me. If you're going to use Bale and Johansson, their roles should be deep, interesting, philosophical, psychological, etc and so on. Not some fluffy children-esque movie.