The Illusionist
This here is a story that should keep most viewers intrigued all the way and perhaps surprised quite a bit at the end.
Edward Norton does his normal job of getting you involved and interacting with whatever character he’s playing, this time a magician with almost supernatural powers: “Herr Eisenheim.”
The character and the tone of the movie is low-key with next to nothing in profanity. 
Warning:- this post does contain the films Goofs, this may spoil the film.
… now for Magic’s Technical Bit:
Director
Neil Burger
Writers
Neil Burger
Steven Millhauser
Release was
2 March 2007 (UK)
Genre
Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
Tagline
Nothing is what it seems
Plot Outline
In turn-of-the-century Vienna, a magician (Norton) uses his abilities to secure the love of a woman far above his social standing.
Goofs:
- Boom mic visible: Near the end of the film, Chief Inspector Uhl is in Prince Leopold’s office. In the close-up scene when the two argue, you can clearly view the boom mike, going from one character to the other, in the reflection on the brass table lamp.
- Miscellaneous: Choreographer Marleen Pennison, Movement Coach for the film, is incorrectly credited as “Maureen Pennison”.
- Anachronisms: At the end of the movie, in the train station, electric wires can be seen above the train tracks. These electric wires did not exist in Austria until 1912.
- Revealing mistakes: In both scenes at the railroad station, there are overhead wires visible which are of a catenary system used to power electrically powered locomotives and/or passenger cars. The period of the film was prior to electric rail propulsion.
- Anachronisms: The ladies of the epoch used to ride in side saddles, not astride the horse, like the heroine does in the castle/forest scene.
- Continuity: At around the 20:17 mark, When Inspector Uhl is inspecting the props backstage, Eisenheim has his arms at his side during their conversation. Then suddenly he is facing the inspector at a different angle and his arms are crossed.
- Continuity: The position of Sophie’s hood changes throughout the mirror scene.
- Anachronisms: Electric lights were turned on in Eisenheim’s theater office during the inspector’s first search and an electric barrister’s lamp was on Leopold’s office desk.
- Anachronisms: The coins The Illusionist is giving the poor children are bi-metallic coins, i.e. they are made of two different alloys, a ring surrounding a differently colored disc. The technology to make those coins is only a few decades old, and certainly was not available in the 19th century. The coins used are Czech 50.
- Anachronisms: When police officers ‘offer a drink’ to Eisenheim, you can see on the building in the background lightning rod of modern design.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Inspector Uhl is investigating Eisenheim’s latest illusion of summoning spirits, one of his aides shows an early turn of the century movie projector portraying a color/sepia based image of a person. Kodachrome film was introduced in 1936. However, turn-of-the-century film was often hand-colorized using stencil methods, the fantasy short subjects of Georges Méliès being a prime example. (In addition, several genuine color film technologies were in use by the early 1920’s.)
- Revealing mistakes: This is possibly done on purpose. When Norton’s character gives the coins to the street urchins, the first coin is visible in his hand before the magic trick occurs.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Inspector Uhl finds Leopold to tell him of Sophie and Eisenheim’s relationship, Leopold asks Uhl “What where they doing? Touching? Kissing? Fornicating?”. His face is only shown when he says “fornicating”, but his mouth moves to a completely different word.
- Miscellaneous: Prior to Uhl and Leopold’s conversation, Leopold shoots something. When they are talking, it can be seen being dragged off screen (lower right)…and is far too rigid and light.
- Continuity: Eisenheim’s eye color is different as an adult than it was as a child.
- Continuity: When Inspector Uhl finds the pendant outside the stall and examines it, the chain the pendant is attached to appears and disappears between shots.
- Continuity: Eisenheim’s arms during his arrest. He is seen with his arms at his side and crossed at the exact same spot during his arrest at the beginning of the show (current time) and the flashback.
- Revealing mistakes: At 1:28:35, you can see the shadow of Eisenheim but at that time he is supposedly an illusion. At 1:29:03, when he is standing, his shadow is gone.
- Continuity: Sophie as a child has bright blue eyes, but as an adult she has green eyes.
- Anachronisms: At the train station, the green trains have large, white lettering boldly printed in Helvetica, a typeface not invented until 1957.