Death Defying Acts (2007)

It's only 90 minutes long but half way through I'm already asking when it is going to end. Never a good sign. It's not bad though by any standards, all the performances are ok (even though the accents are a bit weird), it's just that it doesn't seem to go anywhere.

Only at the end of the film (the last 7 minutes to be precise, lots of snogging) is it clear that we're actually watching a love story. Before this revelation it could've been anything...well maybe not a comedy. Misdirection, it seems, is as central to the aesthetics of the film as the narrative. Alas, everyone knows the king pin of misdirection in recent times is The Prestige (2006), and Gillian Armstrong's effort falls a long way short of being worthy of a comparison.

Fancy seeing some death defying acts, I'd suggest you check out Man on Wire (2007).