Death Defying Acts (2007)

Death Defying Acts: Directed by Gillian Armstrong. With Guy Pearce, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Timothy Spall, Saoirse Ronan. On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini (Guy Pearce) enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con him.

“This film is about a woman who works as a con artist trying to deceive Harry Houdini into believing that she has psychic powers.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu0026quot;Death Defying Actsu0026quot; sounds like an action movie, but the poster looks more like a romantic film. In fact it is neither. It is a slowly unfolding drama about how Mary attempts to con Harry, and how harry falls for her.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAs Houdini is the greatest escape artist of all times, a film about him should have been exciting, thrilling and even death defying. However, this film has none of these attributes. The plot is slow, plain and not exciting at all. There is not much tension or drama to captivate me. I do not care about the characters, and whatever relationship they have between them. There is little chemistry between Guy Pearce and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Frankly, I think they are both miscast. Fortunately, Saoirse Ronan is delightful as the psychic sidekick. She is the one who save the film.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu0026quot;Death Defying Actsu0026quot; turns out to be a bore. I am quite disappointed by it.”