A bit of a synopsis - a flamboyant radio host and trick man, ala new Houdini - Bill Shirko. About myself. Presenting yourself to the public. Such a self-biopics. For its even greater fame and popularity. It contains famous tricks, personal life and business, as well as mysterious dreams - the preparation of new tricks. Personal life is also a show: the model's wife is a stripper's mistress. Business - line through the film defending his radio station - the fight against the "sharks" - "point" developers. Well, most of it is devoted to tricks, always the race to harder and faster, Guinness records and Houdini tricks - all for the sake of not extinguishing minute glory, the whole film is built around this pointless race. All the people around you are serious about this type of activity. Reporters, producers, the team of Bill Shirk, the audience invariably gather for his next “show”.
What's a good movie? The absence of subsequent Hollywood developments: stamps, “squeezing out” of feelings-emotions, pathetics and pathos of the “center earth”. It feels like meeting an old friend and he tells his story, embellishing - how can you check? - a little exalted about the "mysticism" in life - which just does not happen in this life! And the main film says just what gent wants to say: a little unobtrusive self-promotion for more popularity. Honestly and frankly without pressing on the tear glands and heart. Without flirting with super effects and camera tricks.
Here in this story the main true screen life of actors. That they did just fine. I have not seen such organic characters in a long time. Perhaps they do not play at all, just do not “grow old” in front of the camera and live their character, but together with the pressing plot, it is watchable and even relax from films with a “handover” – it is modern or with meaning – this is Soviet cinema. Of all the "cinematography" only one scene is taken - the finale of the dream training of the profession. Everything else is organic. It is even interesting how cinema and we have come such a long way together with it.
5 out of 10