Magic Man (2010)

In order to see magic idol Krell Darius perform his world-famous magic act, a beautiful aspiring young-magician, Tatiana, travels from New York to Las Vegas with her closest friends, BFFs, Elena and Vera. As the layers of illusion unfold, so too do the dark windows into Tatiana's past.

Director:

Roscoe Lever

Writers:

George Saunders, Brent Huff,

Stars:

Billy Zane, Alexander Nevsky, Robert Davi

Cast

Credited cast:
Billy Zane	...	Darius
Alexander Nevsky	...	Detective Orloff
Robert Davi	...	Simpson
Bai Ling	...	Samantha
Armand Assante	...	Taper
Estelle Raskin	...	Tatiana
Christina Vidal	...	Elena
Andrew Divoff	...	Rudolph Treadwell
Sarah Jayne Jensen	...	Vera
Richard Tyson	...	Detective Rogers
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
E.J. Callahan	...	Coroner
Jeff Hobson	...	Himself
Danielle Langlois	...	Hotel Receptionist
Brandon Molale	...	Darryl
Veronica Powers	...	Young Tatiana

Storyline

In order to see magic idol Krell Darius perform his world-famous magic act, a beautiful aspiring young-magician, Tatiana, travels from New York to Las Vegas with her closest friends, BFFs, Elena and Vera. As the layers of illusion unfold, so too do the dark windows into Tatiana's past.

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Genres:

Crime | Mystery | Thriller

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

4 November 2009 (USA)

Also Known As:

El mago

Company Credits

Production Co:

Raskin Productions, Hollywood Storm

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

User Reviews

You may want to jump off a cliff afterwards...

I almost died of boredom during this movie and, judging from their faces, I'd guess most of the actors in it did too: the whole experience of 'Magic Man' is comatose and dismal. It's a depressing film because some impressive actors are painfully under-used, rudely shoved aside to give screen time to drab unknowns who plod miserably through their tedious characters, incapable of holding audience attention, whilst the likes of Billy Zane, Robert Davi, Armande Assante and Bai Ling are treated like supporting actors, with not much to say or do.

Inexplicably, the insipid lead characters are Russian but, just for the fun of being nonsensical, there's no reason why. Oddly, the very actor who's expert at playing Russians isn't one - that's the craggy but knicker-vibratingly dishy 'Wishmaster' Andrew Divoff, an actor with a dangerous charisma and a beguiling voice who should have been cast as the eponymous 'Magic Man', with Billy Zane as the maverick cop. And yet in this flapping debacle, he's wasted as some irrelevant red herring whilst instead, a robotic Russian hulk monotones the role of the cop, a sulky female with a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp relentlessly bores as the lady lead and Billy Zane just looks bemused.

Whoever wrote this film read the best-selling novel 'Carter Beats The Devil' and decided to re-heat the leftovers. They just forgot to add any story, any characterisation, any suspense or any drama. Whoever directed it lucked out in securing some major names in acting talent, then just treated them with contemptuous disregard. The final insolent punch in the face comes with the ending, with the cock-eyed climax of the "plot". As I mentioned at the beginning, try your hardest not to jump off a cliff - this movie will dissatisfy you in every conceivable way.