After watched The Illusionist (Edward Norton, Jessica Biel), as another illusionist movie I watched The Prestige (Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Michael Caine) too.
As a love romance aspect, The Illusionist has straight but strong and long thread. It was not to achieve the love but the talent as illusionist helped to reach the goal. A intelligent succes supported with knowledge and skills. As a of fairness, I say it is difficult to judge it. The Prestige, I enjoyed the movie but it was not as I expected.