I have given 5 stars before to some pretty ingenious stuff coming out on the market. But never have I given 5 stars so enthusiastically as I give it to this.

As I watched Uri Gellar on the Merv Griffin show as a kid, he took normal metal objects from people in the audience and turned them into butter. They melted, twisted, and turned while you watched. I thought, "this guy must be the real thing." So thought everybody who witnessed him doing such things at the time.

Later, I took great joy in watching the effect digitally recreated on the Hollywood movie "The Matrix". By then I had learned of the trickery involved in doing this for a live audience. Still the methods I had invested in did not achieve that original believability of Uri's performance.

More methods rolled through my pocketbook, and I tried everything from the simple to the very elaborate. I had seen this DVD for sale in magic shops, but figured it to be very elementary material that wouldn't be useful. After all, if the hardcore professional material I already had didn't do it, there was little chance this beginner level material was going to change anything. I was DEAD WRONG!

Today I purchased the download version from Penguin because nothing else caught my eye. I'm less than half way through the video and I can already tell you, this is THE REAL WORK on metal bending that I have searched for all these years. These methods impeccably taught by two of mentalism's top professional entertainers. Every nuance of the effect is discussed. If you have performance ability, you can put together a routine that will look BETTER to a live audience than the Matrix did on the movie, and it will be BETTER than anything Uri ever did. Now add in a couple of those "high-dollar" gimmicked items, and people will walk away thinking you are the "real thing".

Finally I will be able to build a metal bending routine that I've always dreamed of. I should have made this purchase years ago, and it is probably the best money I have ever spent on magic. 5 stars WAY UP!

Have I mentioned that I haven't even finished the video yet?

This download was very informative. To learn many different ways to bend many different items, by two different performers will give you some varied views of how to improve your own performances in fun ways.

This gives the purchaser a fine understanding of the different ways of performing metal bending in many forms. I found it very informative and quite entertaining.