It's close. I don't know if this surpasses "The Dark Knight" as my favorite Christopher Nolan film but it's neck and neck.

"The Prestige" is a quite bit different that the action driven Batman films that Nolan is famous for. It's a great tale about competition using magic as it's plot driver. Magic is certainly interesting but once you know the trick it loses all of it's mystery. So Nolan throws us for a loop when he adds a Science Fiction element to the story featuring none other than the great inventor Nikola Tesla. Tesla has always been a point of interest to me. He's someone that was so far ahead of others during his time that he seems otherworldly. The fact that Nolan weaves him into this story and turns this already mysterious but earthly tale into one of fantasy is quite a sleight of hand in itself.

The whole film is full of twists and surprises. It's well acted and it looks great which is what you'd expect from a Nolan film. This was a real conversation piece when I was talking movies with some friends recently. Any fan of Nolan's Batman films will like this. Fans of The Twilight Zone and other sources of Fantasy should watch this immediately.