The producers committed the major sin of exposing how the various magic tricks work.But possibly the most egregious is portraying Harry Houdini as a serial adulterer. There are many more examples - literally dozens. But it totally ignores that Houdini himself made multiple movies, and owned his own motion picture company. Likewise, it shows Houdini fretting over motion pictures stealing his audience - including playing to half-empty houses. To go from that to having Houdini stealing documents from a German ambassador’s safe is a massive stretch. Although there’s not a stitch of evidence that he ever did that. Accuracy was the last consideration - for example, it spends much time on Harry Houdini’s career as a spy.The film portrays Bess Houdini as an alcoholic, with a marijuana dependency, who acts like a shrew who will try to pull her husband down at any opportunity. Several of the characters aren’t sympathetic in the least.As a result, most of the characters seem like two-dimensional cardboard cut-outs. The show feels rushed, without taking the time to flesh out the characters into people that the audience would care about.The problem really does come down to the script, for several reasons: Problems with History Channel’s Houdini all did well - given the script that they had to work with. Likewise, the actors and actresses playing his wife Bess, aide Jim Collins, brother Dash/Hardeen, etc. First, the acting was very good - Adrien Brody has been a favorite of mine since I saw him in Peter Jackson’s King Kong, and he’s quite capable of performing the role. In a nutshell, that’s my opinion of the History Channel’s Houdini biopic, starring Adrien Brody - and that a true pity, for several reasons. Well, maybe not that bad, but Lord, it wasn’t good.” “This bad film just oozed rottenness from every bad scene –simply bad beyond beyond all dimensions of possible badness. Once, many years ago in the Bloom County comic strip, Opus the penguin was writing a movie review, which read in part: Something that comes to mind about the History Channel’s Houdini biography, is actually a comic strip.
Houdini – History Channel biography of Harry Houdini, starring Adrien Brody
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